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| culture | the way of life of a people, including their beliefs and practices. |
| pollution | waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean |
| civilization | an advanced culture with cities and a system of writing. |
| institution | a custom or organization with social, educational, or religious purposes. |
| society | a group of people sharing a culture |
| acculturation | the process of accepting new ideas and fitting them into a culture. |
| social class | a grouping of people based on rank or status |
| nuclear family | a mother, a father, and their children |
| extended family | a family that includes several generations |
| cultural diffusion | the movement of customs and ideas. |
| social structure | a pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society |
| natural resources | useful materials found in the environment |
| raw materials | natural resources that must be worked to be useful |
| renewable resources | natural resources that can be replaced |
| nonrenewable resources | natural resources that cannot be replaced. |
| environment | natural surroundings |
| manufacturing | the large-scale production of goods by hand or by machine |
| colonization | the movement of settlers and their culture to a new country |
| industrialization | the growth of machine-powered production in an economy |
| deforestation | the loss of forest cover in a region |
| biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
| civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, roads, and bridges. |
| cultural landscape | the parts of people's environment that they have shaped and the technology they have used to shape it. |
