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Primary consumers

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Herbivores – Consumers of green plants.

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Primate city

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A city that dominated a country’s urban scene is usually defined as larger than its second and third largest cities combined.

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Prime Meridian

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The imaginary line at zero meridians is used to measure longitude east to west and divide the earth’s east and west halves.

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Prime minister

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The head of a government. The majority party’s leader in parliament.

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Privatization

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The selling of government-owned businesses to private citizens.

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Producers

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(Self-feeders) In a food chain, organisms produce their own food (mostly green plants).

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Projection

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The distortion is caused by the transfer of three-dimensional space on Earth’s surface to the two dimensions of a flat map.

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Province

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A political unit.

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Pull factor

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A factor that draws or attracts people to another location.

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Push and pull forces of migration

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So-called push factors may cause emigration when hunger or lack of land “pushes” peasants out of rural areas into cities, or by pull factors, as when an educated villager responds to a job opportunity in the cities.

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Push factor

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A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region.

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Pyongyang

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The largest city in north korea, with more than 2.5 million people.

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Pyramid of biomass

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A diagrammatic representation of decreasing biomass in a food chain.

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Pyramid of energy flow

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A diagrammatic representation of the loss of high quality, concentrated energy passes through the food chain.