Crystal's Vocab Quiz
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- Nonrenewable energy
- A source of energy that is a finite supply capable of being exhausted.
- Photochemical smog
- An atmospheric condition formed through a combination of weather conditions and pollution especially from motor vehicles.
- Perforated state
- A state that completely surrounds another state.
- Nationality
- Identity with a group of people that share a legal attachment and personal alliance to a particular place as a result of being born there.
- New international division of labor
- Transfer some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid less skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries.
- Pattern
- The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area.
- Photovoltaic cell
- Solar energy cells, usually made from silicon that collect solar rays.
- Market Place
- An area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to used the place's goods and services.
- Monotheism
- The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god.
- Parallel
- A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and right angles to the meridian.
- Multi-national state
- State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to co-exist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
- Peripheral model
- A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounding by large suburban residential and business area tied together by a beltway or ring road.
- Migration
- Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
- Pastoral nomadism
- A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
- Milkshed
- The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
- Pagan
- A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times.
- Mobility
- All types of movement from one location to another.
- Nonbasic industries
- Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
- Missionary
- An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
- Meridian
- An arc drawn on a map between the North and South Poles.
- Paddy
- Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah.
- Multi-ethnic state
- State that contains more than one ethnicity.
- Migration transition
- Change in the migration pattern in society from industrialization, population growth, and other economic changes that also produce the demographic transition.
- Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
- In the US, a central city of at least 50,000 population, country within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city.
- Official language
- The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
- Medical Revolution
- Medical technology invented in Europe and North America that is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional causes of death in poorer countries and enabled people to live longer and healthier lives.
- More developed country
- (MDC) also known as a relatively developed country, a country that has progressed relatively far along a continuum of development.
- Natural increase rate (NIR)
- The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the CBR minus the CDR.
- Overpopulation
- The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard.
- Nationalism
- Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.
- Nation-state
- A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
- Multiple nuclei model
- A model of the internal structure of cities which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
- Net migration
- The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration.
- Microstate
- A state that encompasses a very small area.
- Pasture
- Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing.
- Passive solar energy systems
- Solar energy that collects energy without the use of mechanical devices.
- Ozone
- A gas that absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation, found in the stratosphere, a zone between 15 and 50 kilometers (9 to30 miles) above Earth's surface.
- Personal services
- Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers.