geo unit 7
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- GDP
- the value of goods and services created within a country in a year
- per capita income
- the total income of a country or region divided by the number of people, income per person
- urbanization
- the movement of people from rural areas into cities
- ethnic group
- people who share a common ancestry, language, customs, religion, or combination of such characteristics
- Middle Passage
- name given to the route used by slave ships across the Atlantic from West Africa to the Americas
- apartheid
- policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in the 1940s
- universal suffrage
- equal voting rights for all adult residents of a nation
- mass culture
- popular culture spread by media such as radio and television
- lingua franca
- a language (such as swahili) used for communication among people with different native languages
- oral history
- legends and stories passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation
- extended family
- household made up of several generations
- clan
- tribal community or large group of people related to one another
- literacy rate
- percentage of ppl who can read and write
- commercial farming
- farming organized as a business
- subsistence farming
- traditional agriculture whose goal is to produce just enough to eat for a family or a village to survive
- shifting farming
- method in which farmers move every few years to find better soil
- sedentary farming
- farming carried on at permanent settlements
- desertification
- process in which arable land is turned into desert, usually due to destruction of vegetation
- deforestation
- the loss or destruction of forests, due mainly to trees being cleared for logging or farming
- extinction
- the disappearance or end of a species of animal or plant
- habitat
- area with conditions suitable for certain plants or animals to live
- poaching
- illegal hunting of protected animals
- ecotourism
- tourism based on concern for the enviornment