Geo - Cultures
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- infant mortality rate
- the number of deaths in children per thousand
- nation-state
- When a nation and a state occupy the same territory
- Monarchy
- A ruling family headed by a king or queen holds political power and may or may not share the power with citizen bodies
- city
- Centers of buisness and culture
- Central Business District
- core of the city
- Landlocked
- Country surrounded by other land and with no direct outlet to the sea- must find ways to bulid connections to the rest of the world to get goods in and out of the country.
- rate of natural increase
- population growth rate
- birthrate
- the number of births a year
- acculturation
- occurs when society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation
- nation
- A group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sence of unity
- state
- An independent unit that occupies a spicific territory and has full control of it's own internal and external affairs
- population pyramid
- a graphic device that shows sex age distrubution of a population
- Communism
- In this government and economic system, nearly all political power and means of production are held by the government in the name of all the people
- diffusion
- the spread of ideas, inventions, or paterns of behavior
- innovation
- taking existing technology and resources and creating something new to meet a need
- suburb
- political units touching the borders of the city or other suburbs
- dialect
- versions of language
- metropolitan area
- City, its suburbs, and exburbs
- ethnic group
- a specific group that shares a language, customs, and a comon heritage
- urbanization
- Dramatic rise in # of cities and the change of lifestyle
- society
- A group that shares a Geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture
- fertility rate
- the number of children a woman would have
- population density
- to understand how heavily populated an area is
- push pull factors
- reasons for migrating
- culture
- the total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours passed on by the members of a spicific group
- mortality rate
- the number of deaths per thousand
- urban geography
- The study of how people use space in cities
- carrying capacity
- the number of organisms a piece of land can support
- democracy
- Citizens that hold political power, eighter directly or though elected representatives
- Dictatorship
- An individual or group holds complete political power.
- cultural hearth
- is a site ofinnovation from which basic ideas materials and technology diffuse to many cultures
- religion
- consist of belief in a supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainers of the universe