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.