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| culture | way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
| ethnic group | people who share a common history, language, religion, and physical characteristics |
| dialect | local form of language that differs from the main language in pronunciation or the meaning of words |
| democracy | government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens |
| dictatorship | government under the control of one all-powerful leader |
| monarchy | form of government in which a king or queen inherits the right to rule |
| cultural diffusion | the process of spreading new knowledge and skills to other cultures |
| civilization | highly developed cultures |
| culture region | different countries that have cultural traits in common |
| death rate | number of people out of every 1,000 who die in a year |
| birthrate | number of children born each year for every 1,000 people |
| famine | lack of food |
| population density | average number of people living in a square mile |
| urbanization | movement to cities |
| emigrate | to move to another country |
| refugee | person who flees to another country to escape persecution or disaster |
| natural resource | product of the earth that people use to meet their needs |
| renewable resource | natural resource that cannot be used up or can be replaced naturally or grown again |
| nonrenewable resource | natural resource such as minerals that cannot be replaced |
| economic system | system that sets rules for how people decide what goods and services to produce and how they are exchanged |
| export | to trade goods to other countries |
| import | to buy goods from another country |
| tariff | tax added to the value of goods that are imported |
| quota | number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a particular country |
| free trade | removing trade barriers so that goods flow freely among countries |
| developed country | country in which a great deal of manufacturing is carried out |
| developing country | country that is working toward industrialization |
| rights | benefits and protections guaranteed by law |
| responsibilities | duties owned by citizens to their government and other citizens |
| interdependence | dependence of countries on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods |
| globalization | development of a world culture and an interdependent world economy |
