One Child Policy - a program China initiated during the 1970s in order to reduce the growth rate in the, renewable energy - energy collected from resources which are naturally replenished, like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat, export - the goods/services that your country sells and transports to another country, Special economic zones - area in a country that has different economic rules than rest of country to attract foreign business, Three Gorges Dam - largest hydroelectric plant on Yangtze River, communism - government owns ALL means of production; command economy; ex: North Korea, non-renewable energy - energy that comes from sources that will run out/not be replenished in our lifetimes; ex: fossil fuels, coal, petroleum, natural gas, geometric boundary - boundary made up of straight lines, usually following lines of longitude and latitude; ex: between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, dictatorship - government where single person has absolute power; ex: North Korea, socialism - government owns production of resources while citizens can still own private businesses; rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat, Asian Tigers - high-growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, & Taiwan, Demilitarized zone (DMZ) - border at 38th parallel the divides Korean Peninsula into North and South Korea, hydroelectricity - form of energy that harnesses the power of water in motion, capitalism - economic system where people control means of production; ex: Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, USA, imports - goods/services your country buys from another country, ghost ships - fishing boats that drift through the Sea of Japan for months carrying fishermen's' corpses who most likely died of starvation and/or dehydration,

SE and E Asia Vocab.

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