Vocabulary
Economics
Where People Move, Settle & Live
Humans and Their Envronment
Cultural Mosaics, Historical Perspectives, and Conflict & Cooperation
100
The power produced from the sun.
What is solar energy?
100
The number of people living in a square mile
What is population density?
100
The ability to meet current needs without reducing the ability to meet future needs
What is sustainable development?
100
A basic requirement for life
What is water?
100
These give places unique identities that determine their economic and political activities, land use, settlement patterns, organizations, the role of women, educational opportunities, and observations of traditions and holidays
What are cultures?
200
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
200
Countries that provide resources needed to produce goods
What are less-developed countries?
200
The world's increased dependence on this is reducing the earth's supply of nonrenewable resources.
What is fuel?
200
Biomass Geothermal Solar Wind power
What are renewable energy resources?
200
The attempt to prevent the infiltration of new ideas and practices
What is cultural divergence?
300
A plan in which the government makes all the basic economic decisions.
What is command economic system?
300
Lack of educational opportunities Lack of technology Overpopulation Uneven distribution of wealth
What are factors that cause poverty in low-income nations?
300
Few schools Unemployment Flooding Medical services
What is a push-pull factor?
300
Benefits include: increased profits of industry increased reuse of resources reduced solid waste
What is recycling?
300
There are two types: physical (created by nature) and political (generally drawn along cultural lines)
What are boundaries?
400
A situation in which resources being used up at a faster rate than they can be replenished.
What is unsustainable development?
400
Something that can be partially attributed to the lack of education about family planning, makes it even more difficult for low-income nations to meet the economic needs of their populations
What is a high birth-rate?
400
Indicated by a negative population growth
What is a more-developed country?
400
These produce more of the world's pollution
What are more-developed countries?
400
This influences how people living in a particular area use space, how people divide up the land, create places for worship, and dispose of the dead which affects the geography of an area
What is religion?
500
The policy whereby one group of individuals of common ancestry is removed from an area by another group of individuals of common ancestry, either through death or expulsion.
What is ethnic cleansing?
500
An economy that includes employee/employer negotiation and a minimum wage.
What is a market economy?
500
The benefits of this technological advancement include easy movement of people, products and ideas.
What is transportation?
500
That which provides resources people need for survival
What is the earth?
500
An event that can sometimes occur when cultures collide
What is a conflict?
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