| Term | Definition |
|---|
| culture | Knowledge, attitude, and behavior pasted on in a group |
| society | A group that shares a culture and region |
| ethnic group | A group that shares heritage, customs, and language |
| innovation | Taking existing elements of society and creating something new to meet a need. |
| diffusion | The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior to different societies. |
| cultural hearth | The heartland or place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures. |
| acculturation | The cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society accept or adopt an innovation. |
| dialect | a version of a langiage that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes |
| religion | a belief in a supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainers of the universe |
| birth rate | the number of live births per thousand population |
| fertility rate | average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime |
| mortality rate | is the death rate per thousand people |
| rate of natural increase | is the rate of growth of the country after figuring the death rate and the birth rate |
| population pyramid | is a graph that shows the distribution of gender and age of a countries population |
| push/pull factors | The reasons for migrating to different reasons |
| population density | The amount of average people who liv in a measurable area |
| carrying capacity | The number of organisms a piece of land can support |
| state | An independent unit that occupies a specific territory |
| nation | A group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity |
| nation-state | the name of a territory when a nation and a state occupy the same territory |
| democracy | a type of government in which citizens hold political power either directly or through elected representatives |
| monarchy | a type of government in which a ruling family headed by a king or queen holds political power and may or may not share the power with citizen bodies |
| dictatorship | a type of government in which an individual or a group holds complete political power |
| communism | Nearly all political power and means of production are held by the government. |
| land-locked | A country that is surrounded by other land and with no direct outlet to the sea. |
| urban geography | The study of how people use space in cities. |
| suburb | The built up area around a city. |
| economy | The production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people. |
| economic system | The way people produce and exchange goods. |
| command economy | A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which usually owns the means of production. Also called planned economy. |
| market economy | A type of economic system in which production of goods and services is determined by the demand from consumers. Also called demand economy or capitalism. |
| natural resources | materials on or in the earth that have economic value |
| GNP | the total value of all goods and services produced by a county in a period of time |
| GDP | Total value of a country's wealth divided by population |
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