Everything in this flashcard set.
- population
- The number of inhabitants in a given place
- density
- How tightly packed the matter in something is
- river
- Long stream of water flowing to the sea
- history
- Study of what happened in the past
- culture
- A group's customs, art and way of life
- hearth
- An area near a fireplace
- renaissance
- The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
- capitalism
- An economic system based on private ownership of ___
- fertile
- Capable of reproducing
- civilizations
- A society in an advanced state of social development (plural)
- religion
- System of faith and worship
- regions
- The extended spatial location of something (plural)
- traditions
- An inherited pattern of thought or action (plural)
- subsistence
- The state of existing in reality
- farming
- The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
- archaeologists
- An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture (plural)
- industry
- The organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- technology
- The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical
- machines
- An efficient person (plural)
- distribution
- The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- tornado
- Spinning funnel of wind that touches the ground
- hurricane
- A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots
- fossil
- The remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated
- anthropologists
- A social scientist who specializes in ___ (plural)
