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- developing countries
- Countries in different stages of moving toward development
- third-world countries
- Developing countries that lack economic opportunities
- free enterprise
- An economic system in which people, not government, decide what to make, sell, or buy,
- market economy
- An economy in which consumers help determine what is to be produced by buying or not buying certain goods and services
- command economy
- An economy in which the government owns most of the industries and makes most of the economic decisions
- tradition-based economy
- Exchange of goods or services based on custom and tradition
- mixed economy
- An exchange of goods and services based on at least two other types of economic systems
- one-crop economy
- Economy based on a single crop, such as bananas, sugarcane, or cacao
- exports
- Products a country sells to other countries
- imports
- Products a country buys from other countries
- interdependence
- Depending on another country for resources or goods and services
- birthrate
- Number of births per 1,000 people in a year
- death rate
- Number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year
- population density
- The average number of people living within a square mile or square kilometer
- overpopulation
- More people than a region or country can self-support
- migration
- Movement of people
- emigrant
- Person who leaves one place for another
- immigrant
- Person who arrives from another country
- globalization
- Process in which connections around the world increase and cultures around the world share similar practices
- popular culture
- Widely shared beliefs, tastes, goals, and practices
- refugees
- People who flee to another country, usually for economic or political reasons
- famine
- A great shortage of food
- humanitarian aid
- Medicine, food, and shelter that international relief agencies give to people in need
- droughts
- Periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged
- contiguous
- Units, such as states, that connect to or border each other
- Continental Divide
- The crest of the Rocky Mountains that divides North America’s rivers into those that flow eastward and those that flow westward
- basins
- Regions surrounded by mountains or other higher land
- colonies
- Territories controlled by people from a foreign land
- plantations
- Large farms that grow mainly one crop to sell
- annexed
- Formally adding a state or territory to a larger country