Chapter 21 Vocabulary
Chapter 21 Vocabulary
Sanitation: disposal of waist products
Urbanization: the movement of people from rural areas into cities.
Service Center: a crack in the earth’s surface created by shifting tectonic plates.
Domesticate: to adapt plants and animals from the wild to make them useful to people.
Apartheid: policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in the 1940’s
Universal Suffrage: equal voting rights for all adult citizens of a nation.
Mass Culture: popular culture spread by media such as television and the radio.
Lingua France: a common language used among people with different native languages.
Oral Tradition: stories passed down for generation to generation by word of mouth.
Extended Family: household made up of several generations of family members.
Clan: tribal community or large group of people related to one another.
Nuclear Family: family group made up of husband, wife and children.