geography 2
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- democracy
- citizen hold power in gov't
- solstice
- sun is over head at noon and day and night are the same length
- ecosystem
- an interdependent community
- coniferous
- needle leaf trees
- market economy
- the production of goods are determined by demands
- perma frost
- permanently frozen ground
- population dencity
- averagenumber of people in a place or area
- rain shadow
- land on hill side that gets little rain
- population pyramid
- a device used to show things about a country
- birth rate
- number of births per total population
- deciduos
- broad leaf trees oak birch cottonwood
- monarchy
- a gov't where a ruling family has power
- convection
- transfer of heat into the atmosphere
- el nino
- a wheather pattern pushing warm waters to the americas
- climate
- typical weather conditions in an area
- drought
- a long peroid of time without rain
- mortality rate
- number of deaths per thousands
- tundra
- treeless area around arctic oceans
- gross domestic product
- total value of all goods in a country
- communism
- a system in which the gov't holds all the power
- equinox
- nights are equal length
- biome
- a regional ecosystem
- dictatorship
- one person holds all power in gov't
- command economy
- a type of economic system in product goods
- rate nat. increase
- population growth subtract mortality from birth
- gross national product
- total value of all goods in a country in a period of time