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| 6737157560 | Acculturation vs assimiliation | Acculturation - when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture. Assimilation - the process where a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. | 0 | |
| 6737182220 | Agglomeration | A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. The term often refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pools and technological and financial amenities. | 1 | |
| 6737186019 | Ancillary Activities | Economic activities that surround and support large scale industries such as shipping and food service. | 2 | |
| 6737189178 | Animal Domestication | The taming of animals through generations of breeding to live in close association with humans as a pet or work animal. | 3 | |
| 6737194978 | Aquaculture | The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions. | 4 | |
| 6737201375 | Basques | An ethnic group in northern Spain and southwestern France who do not have Celtic or Latin culture or language roots. | 5 | |
| 6737203785 | Beaux Arts | This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity. | 6 | |
| 6737206655 | Biomass fuel | Fuel that derives from plant material and animal waste | 7 | |
| 6737211174 | Buffer State | A relatively small country sandwiched between two larger powers. The existence of buffer states may help to prevent dangerous conflicts between powerful countries. | 8 | |
| 6737214548 | Commodity Chains | A linked system of processes that gather resources, convert them into goods, package them for distribution, disperse them, and sell them on the market. | 9 | |
| 6737221810 | Conservation | The process of saving or protecting a natural resource | 10 | |
| 6737228157 | Courbanization | An agglomeration of towns or cities into an unbroken urban environment. | 11 | |
| 6737232623 | Debt for nATURE SWAP | Nature Swap Forgiveness of international debt in exchange for nature protection in developing countries. | 12 | |
| 6737278828 | Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body. | 13 | |
| 6737329875 | Devolution | A movement to transfer the responsibilities of governing from the federal government to state and local governments. | 14 | |
| 6737333379 | Dowry | Custom in which the family of a woman transfers property or wealth to her and/or her husband's family upon her marriage. | 15 | |
| 6737336634 | E commerce | Web based economic activities | 16 | |
| 6737341835 | Eco tourism | Type of tourist attraction built around an environmentally friendly activity that aims to preserve the earth and its resources. | 17 | |
| 6737352444 | Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement | 18 | |
| 6737355339 | Enclave | A territory whose geographical boundaries lie entirely within the boundaries of another territory | 19 | |
| 6737373115 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. | 20 | |
| 6737376779 | Exclave | A part of a country that is separated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory. | 21 | |
| 6737380917 | Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) | Generally a state's EEZ extends to a distance of 200 nautical miles (370 km) out from its coast. The exception to this rule occurs when EEZs would overlap; that is, state coastal baselines are less than 400 nautical miles apart. When an overlap occurs, it is up to the states to delineate the actual boundary.[1] Generally, any point within an overlapping area defaults to the most proximate state. | 22 | |
| 6737384110 | Exurbanite | Person who has left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas | 23 | |
| 6737386939 | Feedlot | A plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market. | 24 | |
| 6737389689 | Footloose Industry | Industry in which the cost of transporting both raw materials and finished product is not important for the location of firms. | 25 | |
| 6737393617 | Forward Capital | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, it confirms the states determination to maintain its presence in the region in contention. | 26 | |
| 6737399095 | Generation X | A term coined by artist and author Douglas Coupland to describe people born in the United States between the years 1965 and 1980. This post-baby-boom generation will have to support the baby boom cohort as they into their retirement. | 27 |
