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Global Cultures Final Exam
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05/24/2011

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Acid Deposition
Definition
Tiny droplets of sulfuric acid form and return to the earths surface.
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Acid Precipitation
Definition
When trace gases in the atmosphere mix with rain
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Agriculture
Definition
The occupation, business or science or science of cultivating the land
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Anaerobic Process
Definition
process that does not require oxygen
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Apartheid
Definition
physical seperation of different races into different geographic areas.
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Arable Land
Definition
Land that can be used to grow crops on
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Balkanization
Definition
The break down process of a state through conflicts
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Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Definition
A measure of water Pollution
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Biomass Fuel
Definition
is burned and directly or converted to charcoal, alcohol or methane gas.
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Centripetal Force
Definition
Forces that unifies people. Enhances support for a state.
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Chlorofluorocarbon
Definition
Earth's protective ozone layer is threatened by these pollutants.
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Commerical Farming
Definition
producing large quantities of food and having low incomes but making profit.
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Conservation
Definition
The sustainable use and management of natural resources such as wildlife, water, air, and earth deposits
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Dependency Ratio
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The number of people who are too old or too young to work compared to the number of people in productive years.
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Diaspora
Definition
Ethnicity that has been displaced from its homeland
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Energy
Definition
capacity of work
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Ethnic Cleaning
Definition
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
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Ethnicity
Definition
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homestead or hearth.
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FDA organic Food Criteria
Definition
Organic food has to be approved by the FDA because it has to be organic.
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Gender Role Adoption
Definition
Females taking on more manly jobs and males taking more womenly jobs.
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Gender transcendence
Definition
Is demonstrated by someone who chooses behavior that is personally meaningful, rather than typically feminine or masculine.
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Genetically Modified Organism(GMO)
Definition
meat and edible plants through genetic enginnering.
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Genocide
Definition
Extermination of a group of people mass Killing
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Govenmental Subsidy
Definition
Finacial assistance by a government to some individual or buisness or industry.
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Green Revolution
Definition
the invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s.
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Greenhouse effect
Definition
The effect of trapped trace gases in the environment trap heat
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List Baltic, European, Central,Causaus States
Definition
Baltic-Estonia, Lativia, Lithuania
European-Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine
Central-Kazakhstan, Kyragystan, Tajikistan
Causaus-Armania, Azerbajian,and Georgia
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Migration
Definition
The moving in or moving out of people from one place to another
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Nationalism
Definition
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality a sense of national consciousness taht exalts one nation above all others.
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Photochemical Smog
Definition
Which causes respiratory problems, sting in the eyes,and an ugly haze over cities
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Pollution
Definition
When more waste is added than a resourse can accommodate.
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Preservation
Definition
maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little human impact as possible
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Race
Definition
Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.
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Racism
Definition
belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherient superiority of race.
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Radioactive Waste
Definition
waste given off of nuclear energy
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Resource
Definition
A substance in the environment that is useful to people is economically and technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use.
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Self-determination
Definition
Ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
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Sovereignty
Definition
A state that has the right to govern themselves.
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Stereotype
Definition
socially created beliefs about a certain race or gender.
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Subsistent Farming
Definition
produce food for an increasing number of people and family.
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Sustainable Farming
Definition
Practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality.
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White Flight
Definition
Unscrumpulous real estate practices, especially blockbusting.
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population pyramid
Definition
A bar graph that is used to show a country's population by gender and age group.
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