Unit 2 Vocab!

Question 0

Movement of water through the hydrosphere

Answer 0

Hydronic cycle

Question 1

Energy resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals (ex. Coal)

Answer 1

Fossil fuels

Question 2

Process of removing salt from ocean water

Answer 2

Desalinization

Question 3

Theory that earths crust is divided into rigid plates that slowly move across the upper mantle

Answer 3

Plate tectonics

Question 4

All the features of people’s ways of life

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

Human populations that share a common culture or ancestry

Answer 5

Ethnic group

Question 6

New idea that a culture accepts a process occurring when an idea or innovation is adopted

Answer 6

Innovation

Question 7

Spread from one person or group to another

Answer 7

Diffusion

Question 8

Process in which an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture

Answer 8

Acculturation

Question 9

Birth rate divided by death rate of a population

Answer 9

Rate of natural increase

Question 10

The # of live births each year for every 1000 people living in a place

Answer 10

Birthrate

Question 11

Total # of deaths each year form 1000 people in a place

Answer 11

Death rate

Question 12

A system of government in which the people decide who will govern

Answer 12

Democracy

Question 13

economic and political in which the government owns /controls almost all the means of production

Answer 13

Communism

Question 14

Growth in the proportion of people living in towns and cities

Answer 14

Urbanization

Question 15

Economic system in which the government decides what to produce, where to make it, and what price to charge

Answer 15

Command economy

Question 16

Economic system in which people choose freely what to buy and sell

Answer 16

Market economy

Question 17

A feeling of pride and loyalty for ones country or culture group

Answer 17

Nationalism

Question 18

A body of members living together as a community

Answer 18

Society

Question 19

A specific set of fundamental beliefs or practices of a group of people

Answer 19

Religion

Question 20

of babies a woman can have during her reproducing stage of her life

Answer 20

Fertility rate

Question 21

The amount of deaths during the first year of life

Answer 21

Infant mortality rate

Question 22

Politically unified people occupying a definite territory

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State

Question 23

Territory of a country itself

Answer 23

Nation

Question 24

A sovereign state inhabited by a group of people who share a feeling of common nationality

Answer 24

Nation-state

Question 25

Type of government where all power is held by a single person

Answer 25

Monarchy

Question 26

Type of government where the dictator has complete control over everything

Answer 26

Dictatorship

Question 27

Large or important town

Answer 27

City

Question 28

District located outside a large city or town

Answer 28

Suburb

Question 29

The management of e resources of a community, country, etc.

Answer 29

Economy