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| Culture Hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread |
| Culture | way of life of a group of people who share traditions, interests, beliefs, etc. |
| Language Family | group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language |
| Industry | a business that produces goods or services |
| Population Density | average number of people in a square mile |
| Prehistory | the time in a people's past before written records were kept |
| Free Enterprise | an economic system in which private businesses operate with little interference from government |
| Religion | organized way of worshipping a spiritual being |
| Subsistence Farming | agriculture whose goal is to produce just enough to eat for a family |
| History | the study of written information about events and people in the past |
| Government | a group or nation's political system |
| Tornado | a violent windstorm with rotating winds and a funnel-shaped cloud |
| Cultural Diffusion | the spread of ideas, customs, goods and people from one culture to another |
| Pollution | the existence of impure, unclean, or poisonous substances in the air, water, and land environment |
| Tsunami | Japanese term used for a huge sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake |
| Economic System | the way in which the people of a country produce and distribute goods and services |
| Civilization | a culture that has organized a social, economic, and political system, built cities, and achieved a certain level of development in the arts and sciences |
| Population Distribution | the pattern of population in a country |
| Standard of Living | a measure of people's quality of life |
| Culture Regions | division of the Earth based on factors such as government and language |
