Most adults live in rural areas and work in agriculture.
developing country
A business that has operations all over the world.
multinational corporation
The former Official South African policy of separating people according to race and giving most of the political and economic power to whites.
apartheid
The unequal distribution of wealth and resources in a specific geographic area.
spatial inequality
The ability of one country to produce a good or provide a service at a lower cost or more effectively than another country.
comparative advantage
The total fertility rate needed for a population to replace itself. It is about 2.1 in most developed countries.
replacement rate
The build-up of salt in soil or water.
salinization
use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth
global grid
The hiring of someone outside a company to do work that was once done by the company’s own workers.
outsourcing
the movement of large numbers of people to cities
urbanization
An independent country whose people mostly share a common identity.
nation-state
The study of human populations and how they change.
demography
They earn at least $7,000 a year.
global consumer class
Involves filling in empty or run-down parts of a city with new developments.
infill
Policyto attract more foreign business than other parts of China because they offer companies that locate there greater freedom.
special economic zones
changes in shape, size, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat map
distortion
The kind of work a person does depends mainly on that person’s sex.
gender-based division of labor
A condition in which countries have strong economic ties and depend on each other for resources, technology, trade, and investment.
economic interdependence
How fast a country's population is growing each year.
rate of natural increase
how its people make a living
economic activity map
The condition that occurs when people don't have enough clean fresh water to meet their everyday needs.
water stress
an area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas
region
A legal border that separates urban land from rural land.
urban growth boundary
How has the Employment Equity Act affected job opportunities in South Africa since 1998?
opened jobs to all ethnic groups
A feeling of pride and loyalty toward one’s country.
nationalism