Unit 03: The United States and Canada Vocabulary - MARIO LUCERO | Library

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Emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests.

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The ability to read and write.

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The age a person can expect to live based on the statistical average for an area.

	infant mortality	life expectancy
The age a person can expect to live based on the statistical average for an area.

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The number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.

	infant mortality	connectivity
the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births

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A nation whose government has a supreme authority over its population and territory is called a __________

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The physical and human geographic characteristics that distinguish a particular place is the __________

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A large area characterized by its vegetation, soil, climate, and wildlife ___________ 

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pandemics

biomes

Human Development Index

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

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A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time are ______________ 

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connectivity

pandemics

Human Development Index

demographic indicators

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A measure of the degree to which one location is connected to all other locations.

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Overview of population size, composition, territorial distribution, and the components of changes such as natality, mortality, and social mobility.

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Any improvement in the standard of living of people in a specific country.

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The level of income, comforts and services available, generally applied to a society or location, rather than to an individual.

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Select the THREE types of regions studied in geography:

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The total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders.

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A statistic composite index of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators.

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A mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico

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Massive mountain ranges that stretch from Canada to central New Mexico.

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The widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World.

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The set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system.

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A major fracture of the Earth's crust in extreme western North America is known as the ______________________ 

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spatial diffusion

San Andreas Fault

pandemics

literacy

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Acts or circumstances observed, or observable within nature are known as ______________ 

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phenomena

standard of living

connectivity

biomes

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The spread of human culture over areas __________