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Secondary consumers
Carnivores – Consumers of primary consumers.
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Sectionalism
When people place their loyalty to their region, or section, above loyalty to the nation.
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Sedentarization
Voluntary or coerced settling down, particularly by pastoral nomads in the Middle East.
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Sediment
Small pieces of rock are produced by weathering processes.
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Sedimentary rock
Rock formed from sediments deposited by running water, wind, or wave action either in water bodies or on land and which have been consolidated into rock.
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Segmentary kinship system
The organization of kinship groups in concentric units of membership, lineage, clan, and tribe among Middle Eastern pastoral nomads.
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Seismograph
A device that measures the size of the waves created by an earthquake.
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Seoul
The largest city in South Korea, with a population of more than ten million people.
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Serengeti
An East Africa area contains some of the best grasslands in the world and many grazing animals.
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Service industry
Any economic activity that produces a service rather than a product.
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Service sector
The labor sector is made up of employees in retail trade and personal services.
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Settler colonization
The historical pattern by which Europeans sought to create new or “neo-Europes” abroad.
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Sex ratio
Sex ratio includes the number of males for each female in five age groups – at birth, under 15 years, 15-64 years, 65 years and over, and the total population.
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Shamanism
Beliefs and practices promoting communication with the spiritual world.
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Shantytown
Shantytown: an area in or around a city where people live in temporary shacks, often without basic services such as running water.
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Shatter belt
A large, strategically located region composed of conflicting states caught between the conflicting interests of great powers.
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Sherpa
A person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest region.
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Shi’a Islam
The branch of Islam regarding male descendants of Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, as the only rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
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Shi’ite
One of the two main branches of Islam, including most Iranians and some Iraq and Afghanistan populations.
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Shifting cultivation
A cycle of land use between crop and fallow years is needed to work around tropical soils’ infertility.