World Geography Final- December
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- Buddhism
- Religion that originated in India about 500 b.c. and spread to china, where it grw to a major religion
- Islam
- A monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhhamad and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa
- Taoism
- A pilosophy based on the book Tao Te Ching and the teaching of Lao-Tzu who believed in preserving and restoring harmony in the individual, with nature, and in the universe with little interference from the government
- Confucianism
- A movement based on the teachings of Confucius who stressed the importance of education in an ordered society in which one respects one's elders and obeys the government
- Hinduism
- A dominant religion of India, polytheistic, caste system
- Judaism
- oldest southwest religion in Isreal, Jerusalem, Torah
- Pillars of Islam
- Faith, Charity, Pilgramige, Fasting, and Prayer
- Population Density
- average number of people who live in a measurable area
- Urbanization
- dramatic rise in number of cities and lifestyle changes that occur
- Push-Pull Factors
- factors that draw or repel people from a place
- Immigrant
- a person who moves to a country from another country
- Migration
- movement of people within a country
- Rate of Natural Increase
- difference between number of birth rates and death rates
- Birthrate
- number of births per population
- Mortality Rate
- the number of deaths per thousand
- Population Pyramid
- a graphic devise that shows gender/age distribution of a population
- Continental Drift Theory
- all coninents were at one time joined but floated apart over millions of years
- Debt-for-nature swap
- Environmental groups agree to pay government debt in return for protection of environment
- Gross National Product
- goods and services preduced by a country in a period of time; all goods inside and outside
- Gross Domestic Product
- goods and services produced in a country in a period of time; only within the country
- Command Economy
- production of goods and services is determined by the government
- Per Capita Income
- Average amount of money made by each person
- Recession
- Period of decline in general business activity
- 5 themes of geography
- location, place, region, HEI, movement
- deforestation
- cutting/clearing of trees and forests
- Longitude lines
- imaginary lines to determine absolute location, divide east and west
- Latitiude lines
- imaginary lines that use to determine absolute location, divides world north and south
- equator
- divides world into northern and southern halves
- political map
- shows man-made boundaries
- pyhsical map
- shows natural features
- shape, size, and location
- ways geographers use to identify a country
- artificial boundary
- man-made boundaries
- natural boundary
- natuaral boundary (i.e. mountains)
- absolute location
- exact place on earth where a place is located
- relative location
- describes a location in relation to other places around it
- Animism
- belief in divine forces of nature
- polytheism
- belief in more then one god
- Theocracy
- When the church controls the government
- dictatorship
- government in which an individual/group holds all political power
- Democracy
- government in which citiznes hold political power either directly or through representation
- Monarchy
- government in which a ruling family headed by a king or queen holds all political power
- Communism
- a system in which government holds nearly all political power and means of production
- Pandemic
- a disease that affetcs a large population over a large geographic area
- Apatheid
- policy of complete seperation of races established by white minority in South Africa
- AIDS
- most prevalent disease in Africa, sub- Saharan. sex, needles, birth. Aquired Immune Deficiancy Syndrome
- Berlin Conference
- confernence to establish political control of Africa in 1884-1885
- Chernobyl
- Place in russia where nuclear weapons were tested that exploded
- Ethnic Group
- group of people who share language, heritage, and customs
- Stateless nation
- nation of people who don't legally occupy a territory
- nation-state
- when a nation and a state occupy same territory
- dialect
- version of language that reflects changes in patterns
- economy
- production and exchange of goods and services among people
- economic system
- way people produce and exchange goods
- polygamy
- having more than one spouse (wife)
- caste system
- aryan system of social class in India
- accultaration
- the culture change that occurs when individuals accept an innovation
- one-child policy
- policy in China that encouraged families to only have child to control populaiton growth, resulted in greater male population
- Rai
- popular algerian music known for is fast drum beats and urban style
- yurts
- tent of central asia's nomads
- anti-semitism
- discrimination against Jewish people
- sweatshop
- workplace where people work long hours, low pay, poor conditions
- Nelson Mandela
- South African man who was in control during the aparthied
- Gandhi
- Non-violence protest leader in India and South Africa
- Dalai Lama
- Religious leader in Tibet
- Mao Zedong
- Communistic leader in China who defeated nationalists
- Yasser Arafat
- Leader of the Palestinians and PLO, recently died
- Kashmir
- area of land between india and pakistan, fighting for ownership
- Tibet
- Region in China fighting for independence from China
- Chechnya
- Region in Russia that is fighting for independence form Russia