Vocabulary List

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• Absolute Location- One of the two types of
  location which tells you exactly where something
  is. Examples are Latitude Longitude, Address,
  ETC. Example Coach Georges classroom is 704.
• Relative Location- A location that is related
  to something else. For example, Coach Georges
  classroom is across the hall from Coach Alleys
  classroom.

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• Equator The imaginary line at 0 latitude that
  divides the earth into the Northern and Southern
  Hemispheres.
• Prime Meridian The imaginary line at 0
  longitude that divides the earth into the Eastern
  and Western Hemispheres.

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• International Date Line The imaginary line at
  180 longitude that is the back side of the
  Prime Meridian. The IDL is the same line as the
  PM on the other side of the globe where the new
  day begins!
• Tropic of Capricorn Line at 23.5 S of the
  Equator. Where most of the worlds deserts are
  found.

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• Latitude Imaginary lines that circle the globe
  running east to west. Lines of latitude measure
  distance North and South of the Equator (O
  Latitude).
• Longitude Imaginary lines that circle the globe
  running north and south. Lines of longitude
  measure distance East and West of the Prime
  Meridian (O Longitude).

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• Political Map A map that shows man made features
  such as boundaries, states, and major cities.
• Physical Map A map that shows physical features
  of the Earth, such as mountains, rivers, lakes,
  etc. It shows things not man made!

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• Commercial Farming Commercial Farming is to farm
  to make a financial living. In today's world, a
  small percentage of the population farms for the
  rest of the world population.
• Subsistence Farming farming whose products are
  intended to provide for the basic needs of the
  farmer and his family.

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• Population Density The total of people per
  square mile.
• Population Distribution This shows how
  populations are spread across an area. Before the
  IR, people looked for water sources, good
  climate, fertile soil, and natural resources when
  settling.

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• Urbanization The movement of people from rural
  to urban areas. The main cause is industrial
  development, Positive consequences are more jobs,
  education, entertainment, cultural
  opportunities. Negatives are more crime,
  pollution, overcrowding, and low quality of
  schools and hospitals.

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• Infant Mortality Rate the death rate during the
  first year of life. This information is listed by
  country.
• Growth Rate In terms of demographic concepts,
  growth rate refers to the yearly increase or
  decrease in population for an area.

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• Life Expectancy the total number of years a
  person is expected to live.
• Natural Resource A resource that nature makes
  that humans use in meeting their needs.

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• Birth Rate The total number of people born per
  1000 people.
• Death Rate The total number of deaths per 1000
  people.
• Migration Rate The total number of people that
  move in or out of an particular area.

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• Renewable Resource Any material/resource that
  can be remade/reproduced by nature. Examples are
  wind, oxygen, trees, water, plants, soil.
• Non-Renewable Resource Any resource that cannot
  be remade once it is used up. Examples are fossil
  fuels, which are oil, coal, and natural gas.

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• Fossil fuels Materials created over millions of
  years from prehistoric plants and animals.
  Examples of these are oil, coal, and natural gas.

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• Import To bring products into a country from
  another country.
• Export To send/ship/sell products to another
  country.

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• Domestic produced or made within one's own
  country.
• Embargo A limit placed on trade with countries.

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• Barter to trade by exchange of commodities
  rather than by the use of money.
• Tariff A fee or a tax placed on a trade. A
  government tax on imports or exports.

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• Balance of Trade The total value of all imports
  and exports. To have a positive balance of trade,
  a country will want to export (sells) more than
  it imports (buys).
• Capitalism The economic theory in which the
  government has NO CONTROL in setting production
  and distribution of goods. Private individuals
  and companies sustain the economy.

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• NAFTA An agreement between the United States,
  Mexico, and Canada that allows for free trade
  among the 3 countries. No tariffs!
• Communism The economic theory in which the
  government take complete control of the economy
  and government. The government controls the
  production and distribution of goods.

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• O.P.E.C. The oil cartel made of 12 countries.
  The purpose of OPEC is to increase their control
  of oil markets (supply) so they can get better
  prices for their oil (demand).
• Socialism An economic theory there is
  competition among businesses and people do have
  private property but the government does have
  control in some aspects of the economy. The
  purpose of this economic theory is to ensure that
  everything is done for the good of the community.

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• Command Economy Communism in practice, an
  economic system in which the government controls
  all industry, and does not allow free trade,
  private ownership, or competition.
• Market Economy Capitalism in practice, and
  economic system in which the government has
  little to no control of the economy, and there is
  free trade, private ownership, and competition.

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• Inflation A prolonged rise in prices for goods.
• Recession 6 months or 2 quarters of negative
  growth in a countrys GDP (Gross Domestic
  Product).

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• Protectionism The practice of developing
  domestic industries by protecting them from
  foreign competition by placing limits on imports.
  
• Economics the science concerned with the
  production and consumption of goods and services.
• Economic System How goods are distributed and
  consumed (Communism, Socialism, or Capitalism).

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• Economic Interdependence a high degree of
  division of labor, where people depend on other
  people to produce most of the goods and services
  required to sustain life and living. Basically,
  people in all levels of the economy (even from
  different countries) depend on each other.
• Resource Allocation a plan for using available
  resources.
• Phenomena a fact or occurrence that can be
  observed.

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• Pratibha Patil President of India
• Monmohan Singh Prime Minister of India
• Dmitri Medvedev President of Russia
• Barack Obama President of U.S from 2009-Present

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• Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada.
• Hu Jintao President of China
• Felipe Calderon President of Mexico
• David Cameron Prime Minister of United Kingdom

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• Depression Negative growth in a countrys GDP
  with mass loss of jobs and business failures
  lasting for 1 year (4 quarters).
• Unemployment Rate the number unemployed as a
  percent of the labor force.
• Estuary the part of the river in which the
  river's current meets the sea's tide.

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• Lagoon an area of shallow water separated from
  the sea by low sandy dunes.
• Yellow River Flows through northern China.
  Called the Yellow river because of the Loess
  (fertile, yellow soil) that flows down it. Each
  summer when the river floods, the loess is spread
  on the soil and makes it fertile for farming.

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• Himalayas Worlds tallest mountain range that
  forms the border of China and the Indian Sub
  Continent. Mt Everest, worlds tallest mountain
  is here.
• Ganges River River running from the Himalayas to
  the Indian Ocean. The river provides fertile soil
  and water to people living around it. Known as
  the Ganges Plain, Indias farming heartland is
  located here.

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• Hinduism The dominant religion in India. This
  religion believes in reincarnation and the social
  system known as the caste system. No single
  founder.
• Buddhism Religion based on the teachings of
  Siddhartha Guatama- The Buddha. Believe in
  reincarnation. The religion based on the 8 Fold
  Path, which ends at Nirvana. Nirvana is a state
  of perfect peace in which suffering and
  reincarnation end.

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• Christianity a monotheistic religion based on
  the teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians believe
  that Jesus is the Son of God.
• Judaism the oldest monotheistic religion,
  Judaism was founded in 2000 B. They also believe
  Jesus was a prophet.
• Islam monotheistic C. Jews believe they are
  Gods chosen people. religion based on the
  teachings of the prophet Mohammed. This is the
  major religion in the Middle East and Northern
  Africa

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• Scarcity A lack of available resources.
• Region An area with common characteristics
  (political/man made features, geologic/physical,
  cultural, functional, ETC.
• Drought a long period without rain.