| A | B |
|---|
| acculturation | process of borrowing, accepting and exchanging cultural traits |
| unitary | one central government holds all of the power |
| communism | government makes all of the economic decisions |
| death rate | number of deaths per 1000 people in a year |
| demography | study of populations |
| socialism | government provides some basic services, private individuals make the rest of the economic decisions |
| confederation | government power rests mostly with individual political units, central government has some power |
| diffusion | spreading of cultural traits from one person or society to another |
| democracy | people hold the power to government by electing their leaders |
| sovereignty | freedom and power to decide on policies and actions |
| urbanization | growth of city populations |
| capitalism | private individuals make the economic decisions |
| population density | average number of people who live in a given area |
| authoritarian | one person holds all of the political power |
| federal | central government holds most of the power, shares some with individual political units |
| manufacturing | process of turning raw materials into finished products |
| subsistence farming | farming only enough to meet the needs of your family or village |
| fossil fuels | oil, coal and natural gas |
| GNP | total value of goods and services produced in a nation in one year |
| geothermal | energy from the earth's internal heat |
| commercial farming | farming crops in order to sell them in a market |
| nuclear | energy from splitting uranium atoms |
| per capita GNP | GNP divided by a country's population |
| solar | energy from the sun |
