| Term | Definition |
|---|
| rural | a country atmosphere |
| per capita income | average amount of money earned in year in a country |
| urban | a city atmosphere |
| gross domestic product | value of all the goods and services produced in a country in a year |
| exports | goods sold to another country |
| imports | goods purchased from another country |
| inflation | how fast prices are rising |
| literacy rate | the percentage of people in a country over 15 who can read and write |
| life expectancy | the average number of years a person is expected to live in a country |
| ethnic group | a group of people who share common cultural characteristics like religion, language and dress |
| infant mortality rate | the number of babies who die before the age of one out of 1,000 born |
| population density | shows how crowded an area is by measuring the number of people per square mile |
| genocide | the purposeful systematic killing of an ethnic group or race of people |
| outsourcing | companies contracting workers outside your country to do telemarketing, customer service, manufacturing etc(as we are doing in China and India) |
| naturalized citizen | persons born in other countries who become citizens by application, residency and passing a test |
| refugee | people who flee or escape a place because of oppression, invasion or persecution |
| Immigrant | person who leaves a country to settle permanently in another |
| Lost Boys | name given to thousands of Sudanese males who survived the civil war and the refugee camp who have been sponsored to live in the U.S. |
| janjaweed | Means "Devil on Horseback"-Armed Arab men who have destroyed villages and killed thousands in Darfur, Sudan |
| security council | branch of the United Nations responsibled for sending United Nations troops to crisis areas- 5 permanent members are France, Great Britain,Russia, The United States and China- 10 other countries rotate membership |
| Darfur | Western section of the country of Sudan which has suffered civil war since 2003 and has had over 500,000 people killed and 21/2 million people displaced from their homes |
| recession | a sharp dip in the economy due to a number of factors including stock declines, bank failures, foreclosures, high inflation etc. |
| subsistence farmer | one who grows food to survive and does not have any crops left over to sell for a profit |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation- Insures the money people save in a bank- has moved from $100,000 to $250,000 in the recent laws passed |
| Chad | country next to Darfur ,Sudan where many people from Darfur are living in refugee camps |
| International Court | Court located in the Netherlands where people who commit genocide can go to trial and be sentenced to jail or death |
| flat world | world where communications happen rapidly and where everything is interconnected |
| economics | the study of how people's needs and wants are taken care of to make a living |
| energy climate era | era or time period(now) where fossil fuels are exhaustible, expensive and toxic |
| Code Green | U.S. can climb back on top by using our inventiveness to go green |
| petrodictatorships | countries with oil that are becoming powerful and dictatorial |
| carbon footprint | greenhouse gas emissions caused directly by one person, company etc. |
| ecotourism | practice by countries to make money with tourists by using a protected environment |
| plumpynut | peanut butter paste with lots of protein that is saving thousands of lives |
| malnutrition | poor nourishment which can lead to death |
| time zones | 24 in the world-changes every 15 degrees of longitude |
| prime meridian | 0 degrees longitude |
| equator | 0 degrees latitude |
| net zero building | buildings that generate their own electricity from solar or wind sources |
| flat world formula | CQ (creativity) plus PQ (passion) = IQ (intelligence |
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