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| Culture | is the way of life of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
| Ethnic Group | is a group of people who share a common history, language, religion, and some physical characteristics |
| Dialect | a local form of language that differs from the same language in other areas |
| Democracy | is a form of limited government where power rests with the people of the nation |
| Dictatorship | one type of unlimited government, where a dictator usually takes power by force |
| Monarchy | kings or queens born into a ruling family and inherit their power to rule |
| Cultural diffusion | the process of spreading new knowledge and skills to other cultures |
| Civilizations | highly developed cultures |
| Death rate | the number of people out of every 1,000 who die in a year |
| Birth rate | the number of children born each year for every 1,000 people |
| Famine | lack of food |
| Population density | the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer |
| Urbanization | movement to the cities |
| Immigrant | leave the country where they were born and move to another |
| Refugees | people who flee to another country to escape persecution or disaster |
| Natural resources | are products of the earth that people use to meet their needs |
| Renewable resources | cannot be used up or can be replaced naturally or grown again |
| Nonrenewable resources | resources that the earth provides limited supplies of and they cannot be replaced |
| Economic system | sets rules for deciding what goods and services to produce, how to produce them, and who will receive them |
| Export | trading goods they do not need to other countries (exit) |
| Import | buy goods from another country |
| Tariff | a tax added to the price of goods that are imported |
| Quota | number limit |
| Free trade | removing trade barriers so that goods flow freely among countries |
| Developed countries | countries that have a great deal of manufacturing |
| Developing countries | country that is working toward industrialization |
| Rights | benefits and protections guaranteed to you by law |
| Responsibilities | duties that you owe to other citizens and your government |
| Interdependence | exists when countries depend on one another for goods, raw materials to make goods, and markets in which to sell goods |
| Globalization | the development of a world culture and an interdependent economy |
