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- Polytheism
- belief in many gods
- Social Organization
- the way a culture divides itself into groups
- Synergize
- work together th achive more- habit 6
- movement
- people, goods, and ideas moving constanly
- latitude
- run East and West/ measure North and South
- oceans of the world
- Pacific, Atlantic, Artic, Indian, and Southern Ocean
- Interrupted Projection map
- the most accurate flat map projection
- Extended Families
- includes several generations living in one house
- literacy
- the ability to read and write
- Think Win-Win
- have an everyone-can-win attitude- habit 4
- Geography
- the study of Earth and its lands, features, etc.
- Underdeveloped 3rd World
- includes as well capitalists and communist countries as very rich and very poor countries
- continents of the world
- North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe
- religion
- an expression of faith and values
- Mixed Economy
- individuals make some economic decisions and the government make others
- Traditions
- celebrations and rituals that help a culture remember important events, express religious belief, and teach cultural values to the next generation
- Seek 1st to understand then to be understood
- listen to people sincerely- habit 5
- Tropic of Capricorn
- one of the major circles of latitude (South of equator)
- Mercator Projection map
- greatly disorts size of continents/ made in 1569
- United Nations
- World organization for peace formed after WWII
- Developed 1st World
- the term "first world" refers to-so-called developed, capitalist, industrial countries
- key
- descriptions of a location
- Monotheism
- belief in 1 god
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy
- cash crops
- crop that can be sold on the world market
- prime meridian
- 0 degrees longitude
- Venezuela
- Northern South America
- location (absolute)
- the exact spot on Earth where something is found
- Customs
- cultural rules for behavior
- language
- the ability to communicate in different forms
- Andes Mountians
- in South America
- Traditional Economy
- producing what people need to survive through hunting, gathering, farming, etc.
- Infant Mortality
- the death rate during the first year of life
- compass
- a navigational instrument for determining direction
- Art and Literature
- products of human imagination that expresses cultural values
- place
- every place on Earth can be described in terms of its physical characteristics/ human features
- Human Enviornment Interaction
- people adapting to their enviorment
- interdependance
- mutual reliance on each other for information, resources, goods and service
- Yangtze River
- largest and longest river in China
- Economics
- refers to how people use limited resouces to satisfy their wants and needs
- Sharpen the Saw
- renew yourself reguraly- habit 7
- Sahara Dessert
- covers large parts of North Africa
- Nuclear Families
- includes a wife, husband and kids
- Diffusion
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- government
- protecting society from outside threats
- Begin with the end in mind
- define your mission and goals in life- habit 2
- longitude
- run North and South/ measure East and West
- 4th World Nations
- 1st came into use on 1974, the term refers to nations of indifenous peopls living within or across state boundries
- HDI
- Human Develpopmnt Index
- 1st things 1st
- prioritize and do the most important things first- habit 3
- Developing 2nd World
- refers to the former communist-socialists, industrial states
- Command Economy
- the government controls what goods are produced, and what they cost
- Be proactive
- take responsibility for your life- habit 1
- Democracy
- the people have the supreme power and the government can only act with and by their consent
- Modernization (goals for a nation)
- Healthcare, EDucation, Government Stability, Economic Stability (HEDGE)
- Robinson Projection map
- slightly disorts size, shape, and distance/ made in 1963
- location (relative)
- the position of a place in relation to other places
- Market Economy
- individuals answer the 3 basic economic q's by buying and selling goods and services
- Ganges River
- in India (below China)
- cultural geography
- the study of people and their ways of life
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Ural Mountians
- in Asia
- physical geography
- physical characteristics of Earth, the study of physical features of the earth's surface
- Tropic of Cancer
- one of the major circles of latitude (North of equator)
- Dictatorship
- a ruler/ group holds power by force
- Republic
- a form of democracy where people choose leaders who represent them
- Ethnocentrism
- belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
- equator
- 0 degrees latitude
- region
- area defined by physical characteristics