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| The way of life for a people including the beliefs, customs and practices. |
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Ideas and ways of doing things that may change over time. |
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What are elements of culture that are easy to see? |
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| Houses, Clothing, Food, Sports and Literature |
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What are elements of culture that are not so easy to see? |
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| Spiritual Beliefs, Government, Ideas of right and wrong and Language. |
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| What advances in technology did early cultures have? |
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1. Invention of Tools
2. Control of Fire
3. Beginning of Agriculture
4. Use of Writing |
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| An advanced culture with cities and use of writing. |
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| What is the Agricultural Revolution? |
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| The time when people learned how to raise crops and tame wild animals for food. |
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| The exchange of goods or services without the use of money. |
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| The time 200 years ago when power driven machines were invented and factories were started. |
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| Customs and organizations with social, educational or religious purposes. |
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| What are examples of institutions? |
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| Armies, Governments, Churches and Schools |
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| A group of people sharing a culture. |
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| What is Social Structure? |
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| Organized relationships among groups of people within a society. |
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| The place where customs and traditions are taught. |
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| A grouping of people based on rank. |
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| What is a nuclear family? |
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| It consists of a Mother, Father and Children. |
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| What is an extended family? |
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| It includes several generations of people. |
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| Name three things that can cause cultures to change? |
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1. Natural Environment
2. Technology
3. Ideas |
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| With limited transportation factory workers had to live close to work. |
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| What is cultural diffusion? |
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| The movement of new ideas that are adapted to existing cultures. |
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| The process of accepting new ideas from other cultures |
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| System that sets up and enforces laws and institutions in a region. |
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| A region that shares the same government |
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| A region that belongs to another state. |
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| A state that is independent of other states. |
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| A small city-centered state. |
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| States containing several countries. |
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Form of government in which all adults take part in decisions (most effective in areas where people live in small groups) |
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Members of a tribe have a say in group decisions, but ultimately chiefs or elders make the final decisions. |
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Rule by a leader that is not a king or queen, but has almost total power over an entire country. Most dictators gain power by force. |
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Governments controlled by a small group of people. Ordinary people have little say in decisions. |
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The power of the king or queen is limited by a constitution, which is a set of laws that define and often limit the government’s power. |
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People indirectly hold power by electing representatives that make the laws. |
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| A system in which people make, exchange and use things that have value. |
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| People who purchase products |
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| People who make products. |
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| An economic system in which private individuals own most businesses. |
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| An economic system in which the government owns most businesses. |
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| An economic system in which government and private individuals share ownership of businesses. |
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| Define a Developed Country |
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1. Advanced technologies
2. Food grown for sale on commercial farms
3. Good education and health care
4. People work in factories or offices |
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| Define a Developing Country |
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1. Farmers grow for themselves - Subsistence farming.
2. Little machinery.
3. Challenges like: Disease, Unsafe water and poor education. |
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| When one country relies on the goods of another country. |
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| Useful materials found in the environment |
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| Natural resources that must be worked to be useful |
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| Resources that can be replaced |
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| Resources that CANNOT be replaced |
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| People who use the land resources directly to make products |
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| Take materials in for manufacturing |
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| Large-scale production of goods by hand or machine |
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People who provide services
(Doctors, Schools, Banks, Malls) |
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| The way population is spread out over an area |
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| The science that studies population distribution and change |
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| Average number of people in a square mile |
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| People who move from one place to another |
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| People who move into one country from another |
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| People who move to one country from another by choice |
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| People migrate to other countries because they are pushed to leave an area and pulld to a new one |
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| People are forced to move from their homeland |
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| Movement of people to cities and the growth of those cities |
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| People who live in the countryside |
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| People who live in the city |
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