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Semester Exam Vocab

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Overpopulation
The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decnt standard of living
Acculturation
The process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group
Language Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family.
GIS
A computer system that stores, organizes, analyzes, and displays geographic data
Animists
People that believe that objects or natural events have a dicrete spirit and a conscious life
Doubling Time
The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant natural increase rate
Life Expectancy
The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live.
NIR
The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate
GPS
A system that determines the precise positioning of something on Earth through a series of satellites
Infant Mortality Rate
The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births in society
Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.
Denomination
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.
Language Group
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
Environmental Determinism
How the physical environment caused the social development
Total Fertility Rate
The average number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years.
Possibilism
The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined
Concentration
The spread of something over a given area.
Toponym
The name given to a portion of the Earth's surface
Urbanization
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in an urban setlement
Situation
The location of a place relative to other places.
Brain Drain
Large-scale emigration by talented people
Density
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.
Scale
The relationship of a feature's size on a map to its actual location
Intervening Obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
Population Pyramid
A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex
Remote Sensing
The aquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or other long distance methods
Polder
Land created by the Dutch by draining water from an area.
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite the differences in other personal characteristics
Location
The position of anything on the Earth's surface
Arithmetic Density
The total number of people divided by the total land area.
Region
An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
Dependency Ratio
The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Literary Tradition
A language that is written as well as spoken.
Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion
Cosmogony
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
Crude Death Rate
The total number of deaths a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans
Custom
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group of people peforming the act
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different languages dominate
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, prounciation, and grammar
Refugees
People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in social group, or political opinion.
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Physiological Density
The number of people per unit of area of arable land

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