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6th Grade Western Hemisphere--D-11, Colorado Springs, CO 34 words

Academic Vocabulary list for all 6th grade social studies classes in District 11 Colorado Springs, CO.
The phrases: population distribution, Indigenous people, push-pull theory....were not able to be defined by Visual Thesaurus. I entered individual words, but combined meaning may be lost. Consult teachers' definitions to theses phrases.

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  1. biodiversity
    the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)
  2. civilization
    a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
  3. climate
    the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
  4. constitution
    the act of forming or establishing something
  5. culture
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  6. distribution
    the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
  7. economy
    the system of production and distribution and consumption
  8. environment
    the totality of surrounding conditions
  9. equator
    an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles
  10. ethnic group
    people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
  11. export
    sell or transfer abroad
  12. immigrant
    a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
  13. import
    bring in from abroad
  14. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  15. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  16. longitude
    the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
  17. meridian
    an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
  18. migration
    the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
  19. natural resources
    resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
  20. parallel
    being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
  21. people
    (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  22. population
    the people who inhabit a territory or state
  23. precipitation
    the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
  24. prime meridian
    meridian at zero degree longitude from which east and west are reckoned (usually the Greenwich longitude in England)
  25. pull
    apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
  26. push
    move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
  27. raw material
    material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
  28. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  29. social class
    people having the same social, economic, or educational status
  30. society
    an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
  31. theory
    a belief that can guide behavior
  32. urban
    relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
  33. urbanization
    the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban
  34. weather
    the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation