Geography Flashcards

(52 cards)

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(n) too many people live in one specific area that causes overload

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(adj) suitable for marriage

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Eligible

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(n) To destroy the reproductive ability, so that a particular person would not be able to reproduce

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Sterilization

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(n) When a mother is forced to get rid off the baby inside her womb

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Abortions

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(n) When the Government only allows a family to have one child due to its country rapid growth population.

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One-child Policy

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To take away or look at other people’s property, usually without permission

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Ransack

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Uneven or unequal

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Lopsided

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The ability to produce young

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Fertility

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Talk in which people make jokes about each other in a friendly way

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Banter

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with the help and support of (someone or something)

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Auspices

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polite behavior that shows respect for other people, something that you say to be polite especially when you meet someone

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Courtesy

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(n) The action or fact of making a specified thing smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.

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Reduction

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(n) A number to be divided by another number.

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Dividend

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(v) To reduce, decrease, to avoid.

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Alleviate

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(n) The remarkable and amazing changes in demography (The birth/death rates, migrations,..) of a given population.

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Demographic Change

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(n) An effect of China’s One-Child Policy in which an employed grandchild is responsible for the care of both parents and four grandparents.

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The 4-2-1 problem

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(n) The efforts to have one ideal number of kids in a family, often using “artificial contraception” or “voluntary sterilisation” as a solution.

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Family-planning

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(n) A person who organises and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

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Entrepreneurs

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a person who tries to bring two people together so that they will marry each other

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Matchmaking

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to continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant or unwanted situation

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Languish

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new and different from what has been known before

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the study of changes (such as the number of births, deaths, marriages, and illnesses) that occur over a period of time in human populations

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The force that is applied when the law is not followed

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to forcefully take something away from somone

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To destroy someone's living space by scatter the objects
ransack
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A rate of something's movement
momentum
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to indicate or introduce
implicate
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something that directs at certain information
indicators
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The graph or infomation of certain topic
demograph
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good amount, or quality
substantial
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do something that forces you to use your effort
affair
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MEDC
More Economically Developed Country Better techology, better heathcare, better education, Much more income per capita ,etc ex; US, Japan,France
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Unfair Trade
It referred as deceptive trade practices such as misrepresentation, false advertising, tied selling and other acts that are declared unlawful by statute
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Wealth disparity
The gap of the different statuses in a society
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Debt
owning someone
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Natural disaster
caused by forces of nature: Tornado, tsunami cause of poverty
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Development Indicator
Statistics or numbers that meausre how much the country is developed. How much the country has grown economically and socially. And how good is the quality of life in a country
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HDI
compose of life expectancy, education, and income per capita. It is measured between scale 0-1.
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Primary Products
A product that is made of a natural raw material, an unmanufactured product.
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Literacy Rate
a development indicator reveals the percentage of population in one country to read and write well.
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GNI
Amount of money that the country receive every month/year
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Dependency
Can't survive without something, a country
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Primary products
The resources that haven't gone through the process of manufacturing (e.g. trees, oil)
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Colonialism
The definition of colonialism is the act of one nation controlling another for economic gain.
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Indicator
a device used to provide specific information that indicates a level
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GNH
Measures happiness of people in a country
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Fair Trade
Trade in which fair prices are paid to producers in developing countries. Also, fair working condition and time should be given.
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LEDC
Less Economically Developed Country Lack of skills, techology, less income per capita ex; Cambodia,
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Aid
to support.
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Literacy Rate
The percentage of population (age15+) of a country, who could read, understand and write.
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NICs (New Industrialized Countries)
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NIC
Newly Industrialized Country- country whose level of economic and social development ranks somewhere between the developing and developed