| A | B |
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| death rate | number of deaths per year for every 1000 people |
| birthrate | number of children born each year for every 100 people |
| famine | a severe lack of food |
| population density | the average number of people living in a square mile or square kilometer |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| emigrate | leave a country where they were born and move to another |
| refugee | people forced to flee to another country to escape wars, persecution, or disasters |
| technology | the application of scientific discoveries to practical use |
| internal | existing or taking place within |
| culture | the way of life of a group of people |
| ethnic group | a group that shares a language, history, religion, and some physical traits |
| dialect | a local form of a language that may have a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation |
| democracy | power held by the people |
| dictatorship | leader rules by force |
| monarchy | government led by a king or queen who inherits power by being born into the ruling family |
| civilization | highly developed cultures |
| cultural diffusion | the process of spreading ideas, languages, or customs from one culture to another |
| culture region | an area that includes different countries that share similar cultural traits |
| globalization | the development of a worldwide culture with an interdependent economy |
| widespread | scattered or found in a wide area |
| unique | being the only one of its kind |
| natural resource | materials from the Earth that people use to meet their needs |
| renewable resource | natural resources that cannot be used up or that can be replaced |
| nonrenewable resource | once humans use up these resources, they are gone |
| economic system | the method used to answer 3 key questions - what goods & services to produce, how to produce them, & who will receive them |
| developed country | has a mix of agriculture, a great deal of manufacturing, and service industries |
| developing country | have little industry. agriculture remains important, & incomes per person are generally low |
| newly industrialized country | countries that are becoming more industrial |
| export | sell to other countries |
| import | buy from other countries |
| tariff | taxes, to increase price, of imported goods |
| quota | limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a certain nation |
| free trade | the removal of trade limits so that goods flow freely among countries |
| interdependence | countries rely on each other or ideas, goods, services, and markets, or places to sell their goods |
| finite | limited in supply |
| finance | provide funds or capital |
