Before you start studying a country or doing some research,
it is helpful to know the definitions of the words you will encounter.
Match the words to the correct definitions:
- agriculture
- arid
- capital
- capitalism
- census
- crop
- cultivation
- culture
- density
- developing nation
- dictatorship
- diversity
- domestic
- economy
- elevation
- ethnic
- environment
- exports
- imports
- income
- interdependence
- landform
- life expectancy
- manufacture
- market
- monarchy
- migrate
- per capita
- precipitation
- product
- raw materials
- rural
- savanna
- secede
- services
- society
- standard of living
- suffrage
- tariff
- technology
- trade
- universal
- urban
- vast
- vegetation
- zone
- farming
- tools made and used by people; e.g. pencils, hammers, cars, computers
- move from one area to another
- a plain or prairie mostly covered by grasses
- for everyone
- the language, customs and beliefs shared by a group of people
- area or region
- the city where the country’s government has its main offices
- within the country
- an area away from large towns and cities
- the quality and quantity of conveniences available
- a natural feature of the earth; e.g. mountain, valley, island
- make in a factory or workshop to sell
- something that is grown, raised or made to sell
- variety; e.g. there is a lot of variety in religious beliefs in Canada
- how long people are expected to live; how long they live, on average
- the height above sea level
- a language or cultural background; e.g. French, Vietnamese, Korean, Scottish, Nigerian
- a type of government that has a king or queen as the head
- how much is in a specific area; e.g. how many people per square kilometre
- a country that is starting to have more industries and services for people
- huge
- leave or withdraw from an area or group
- a count; e.g. how many people live in a country
- the products a country sells to other countries
- a system of government in which one person makes the laws and rules a country by force
- helpful activities organized by a town or country; e.g. fire department, police force, hospitals, libraries
- exchanging goods, or buying and selling products
- an area where there are cities or large towns
- surroundings; e.g. the plants and animals that live in an area, the lakes, rivers, hills and valleys in an area
- the right to vote
- plants and trees; usually refers to what grows naturally or ‘in the wild’
- the place where things are sold and bought; a system where buying and selling things provides a lot of money for people
- dry; little precipitation
- the ‘natural ingredients’ or natural resources used to make something; e.g. logs to build houses
- the total divided by the number of people in a country; e.g how many cars in a country per person
- a plant that is grown for use by people or animals; e.g. wheat
- an economic system in which people produce and sell goods for their own profit
- growing plants for use by people or animals; growing potatoes
- a group of people that interact with each other
- the products a country buys from other countries
- the money someone makes for doing something
- water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, hail, snow or sleet
- tax
- the way a country makes money
- a relationship in which different groups or people need each other; e.g. Canada needs other countries for crops such as oranges; other countries need Canada’s trees for building houses
See Ms. Rosen in the library for an answer key.