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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cultural boundaries | borders based on culture traits like religion or language |
| natural boundaries | mountains, rivers, and deserts |
| infrastructure | basic needed by community such as roads, ports, water sewer, electric public transpiration, and emergency services |
| literacy rates | quality of health care today, technology of life expectancy infant morality and per capita in comes |
| geometric boundaries | based on latitude and longitude lines |
| standard of living | defines a country's level of living for its citizens, its measured by literacy rates |
| industrialization | level of industry development in a country |
| Gross Domestic Product | total amount of goods sold with in a country |
| command economy | the government decides what to produce, how much, and what to charge on a product |
| Gross National Product | total amount of goods and services produced by a country |
| capitalism | where businesses, industry, and resources are privately owned |
| free enterprise | a system that allows for competition based on capitalism |
| market economy | people freely choose what to buy and sell. this type of eco. is guided by free enterprise |
| dialect | a religion of variety of languages |
| ethnic religions | generally have not spread into other cultures |
| tariffs | takes on imports and exports |
| democracy | a system in which the people decide who governs |
| nationalism | being loyal to your country |
| geometric boundaries | boundaries that follow regular geometric patterns |
| traditioalism | OPPOSITE of globalization. the following of a long time traditions |
| globalization | what takes place when more cultures become alike |
| diffusion | occurs when an idea or practice spread to another group |
| innovation | new ideas that culture create themselves |
| culturation | when a culture has way another culture already has |
| acculturation | a group adopts a particular trait from another |
| cultural changes | can occur through acculturation, innovation, and diffusion |
| ethnic group | a population that not only shares a common culture but an ancestry as well |
| cultural religions | an area where people share common cultural traits |
| cultural traits | activity and behaviors of people |
| culture | all features of a person's way of life that is learned and based down from parents-child-their child... |
| hajj | special religious journey to mecci for muslims |
| mosques | houses of worship for muslims |
| missionaries | help spread the religion |
| universalizing religions | seek followers all over the world |
| immigrant | entering a country |
| emigrant | exiting a country |
| Judaism | studies the Torah, lived in Jerusalem and the sacred symbol is the star of band |
| Islam | studies the Quian, lived in Mecca and the sacred symbols is the prayer rugs |
| Hinduism | studies the Vedas lived in the city of vavanas and the sacred symbol is the cow |
| confucianism | studies the Analects lived in Confucian temple and the sacred symbol is the yrm-yang |
| taoism | studies the Tao Te Ching lived in the house of lau tsu and the sacred symbol is the yrm-yum |
| population density | the average number per person living in an area |
| birthrate | the number of people born per year |
| death rate | the number of deaths per year |
| migration | process of moving from one place to live in another |
| push factor | causes people to leave a location |
| pull factor | causes people to come to a location |
| refugees | people who have been forced to leave a state or an area |
| animistic religions | people believe in the presence of the spirits and forces of nature |
| domestication | agriculture appeared when hunter-gatherers learned how to grow plants and tame animals for their own use |
| urbanization | growth in the proportion of people living in towns and cities |
| world cities | the most important centers of economic power and wealth |
| Central Business District | transportation hubs where roads, railroads and buses come together |
| subsistence agriculture | the kind of agriculture practiced most widely around the world |
| shifting cultivation | when farmers clear trees or brush for planting |
| pastoralism | herding animals |
| oriental agriculture | commercial agriculture |
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