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Global Studies 9
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9th Grade
03/04/2009

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Term

2nd Agricultural Revolution

 

Definition

3 Main Causes

1)  New plants (potato, corn, squash)

2)  New machines (seed drill)

3)  New methods

Term
Agricultural Revolution
Definition

Advances in learning to farm and domesticate animals.

Term
Civilization
Definition
A highly organized group of people with their own government, language, and ways of life.
Term
Cold War
Definition

Tensions between 2 superpowers, US and USSR.  Tensions could lead to WWIII. 

They stockpiled their weapons. 

War of Ideas - which type of government was best: Communist vs Democracy 

Term

Command Economy

 

Definition
Government controls production of goods, stores:  how much to sell, what to sell, what price.
Term
Culture
Definition

Way of Life

7 Elements:

1)  Family - nuclear and extended

2)  Language

3)  Arts and Liturature

4)  Religion

5)  Social Organization,

6)  Forms of Government/Economy

7)  customs and Traditions

Term
Debit Crisis
Definition
- inability of developing nations to repay large sums of $ borrowed to build large projects.
Term
Democracy
Definition
People have the supreme government.
Term
Dictatorship
Definition

Ruler holds power by force.

 

 

Term
Economic Diversity
Definition
When a country has more than one type of crop or more than one type of manufactured good to sell. 
Term
Equator
Definition

Seperates Earth in 2 halves- 0 degrees Latitude.

 

 

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Term
Ethnocentrism
Definition
Judging other cultures by the standards of our own.
Term
Exports
Definition
Products that go out of a country for trade.
Term
Extended Family
Definition
More that one generation in one house.
Term
Geography
Definition

Study of people,

their environment,

and their resources.

Term
Imperialism
Definition
Control by one country of the political, economic or cultural life of another county.
Term
Import
Definition
Products that come into a country for trade.
Term
Industrial Revolution
Definition
Period during which machines replaced hand tools.  Steam and electricity replaced human power.
Term
Interdependence
Definition
Mutual dependence of countries, on goods and resources and knowledge from other parts of the world.
Term
Latitude
Definition

Lines that measure  North + South

 

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Term
Location
Definition

Absolute - Longitude and Latitude of a place.

 

Relative - N or S of another well know place.

Term
Longitude
Definition

Lines that measure E + W

  

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Term

Map
Projection

Definition

Ways of showing a curved world on a flat surface.

 

ex.) Robertson,

 Peters,

    Mercator,

       Interupted,

     and Globe (most accurate)

Term
Market Economy
Definition

People make economic decisions: 

 

Supply and Demand

Term
Modernization
Definition
Changes in a nation that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services.
Term
Monotheism
Definition
Worship/belief in 1 God
Term

Movement

Definition
Movement of people, goods and ideas.
Term

Neolithic Revolution

 

(also known as Agricultural Revolution)

 

Definition
New crops, new planting methods, new machines/tools.
Term
Nomad
Definition
Travel from place to place to find food.
Term
Nuclear Family
Definition

1 generation under 1 roof.

 

(Parent(s) and children)

Term

Polytheism

Definition
belief/worship of more than 1 God.
Term
Population Density
Definition

Average # of people

living in an area of specific size.

Term
Prime Meridian
Definition
Runs through Gre
Term
Privatization
Definition
Selling state owned industries to private investors.
Term
Republic
Definition
Government people choose the leaders that represent them.
Term
Tariff
Definition
Taxes on imported goods.
Term
Technology
Definition
Skills and tools that people use.
Term
Traditional Economy
Definition

People produce most of what they need

to survive. May be hunters, gatherers

and traders if they have a surplus.

Term
Issues of Global Concern
Definition

Drug Trade

 

Environment

 

Human Rights

 

Technology and the Future

Term
Causes and Effects of Industrialization
Definition

Newer farming methods caused people to move to the city

Steam and electricity replaced human powerMachines replaced hand tools. 

Urbanization - people moved to cities instead of farming. 

Set off Imerialism.

Term
Causes and Effects of Imerialism
Definition

Industrial Revolution> Need for raw materials.

 

Changed power relationship of Globe.

 

Westernization- adoption of western culture.

Term
Developing World and Modernization Goals
Definition

Stable government.

 

Produce High levels of Goods and Services.

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 Economic Diversity

Term

Problems of the Developing World

 

Definition

Population Explosion

 

Cultural Change

 

Growing gap between developed and underdeveloped countries.

Term
United Nations
Definition

Solves threats to world peace.

 

Solve global, social and economic problems. 

 

Has more that 160 members.

Term
Urbanization
Definition
Growth of Cities
Term
Westernization
Definition
Adoption of western cultures.
Term
5 Themes of Geography
Definition

Movement

Region

       Location

               Interaction

         Place

 

MR. LIP

Term
Absolute Location
Definition

The use of Latitude and Longitude to Identify Location

 

Term
Relative Location
Definition

Identifying a location based on its relation to some other place.

ex.  Cortland is south of Homer.

 

Term

7 Elements of Culture

Definition

Language

Arts and Liturature

Family

Social Structure

Forms of Government

Forms of Economy

Religion

Term
Characteristics of a Civilization
Definition

Having own language, culture, government. Highly organized group of people.

Term

Impact of Farming on Civilization

Definition

New plants, new machines and methods=

More food production=

increase in population

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