WH&G 6
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- bubonic plague
- infectious disease spread by rats that killed 1/3 of Europe from 1346 -1525
- indigenous people
- People who are native to a geographic area.
- census data
- information gathered from a formal counting of people
- minority
- a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
- relative location
- A geographic location that is described by comparing its location to another location.
- absolute location
- the precise spot where a line of latitude crosses a line of longitude
- cultural diffusion
- the process of spreading new knowlege and skills form one culture to another
- ethnicity
- a group that shares common characteristic(s): place/nation of origin; language; religion; tradition; customs; shared history
- subsistence farming
- farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing
- cartographer
- A person who makes maps.
- flowchart
- a concept map that shows all steps in a complicated process
- planned city
- A city that is built according to a set design
- aquifer
- any underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
- demography
- The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics
- primary data
- information collected directly from the original source