Quizlet Geo - Cultures

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  1. Central Business District: core of the city
  2. 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
  3. Dictatorship: An individual or group holds complete political power.
  4. 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.
  5. Monarchy: A ruling family headed by a king or queen holds political power and may or may not share the power with citizen bodies
  6. acculturation: occurs when society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation
  7. birthrate: the number of births a year
  8. carrying capacity: the number of organisms a piece of land can support
  9. city: Centers of buisness and culture
  10. cultural hearth: is a site ofinnovation from which basic ideas materials and technology diffuse to many cultures
  11. culture: the total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours passed on by the members of a spicific group
  12. democracy: Citizens that hold political power, eighter directly or though elected representatives
  13. dialect: versions of language
  14. diffusion: the spread of ideas, inventions, or paterns of behavior
  15. ethnic group: a specific group that shares a language, customs, and a comon heritage
  16. fertility rate: the number of children a woman would have
  17. infant mortality rate: the number of deaths in children per thousand
  18. innovation: taking existing technology and resources and creating something new to meet a need
  19. metropolitan area: City, its suburbs, and exburbs
  20. mortality rate: the number of deaths per thousand
  21. nation: A group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sence of unity
  22. nation-state: When a nation and a state occupy the same territory
  23. population density: to understand how heavily populated an area is
  24. population pyramid: a graphic device that shows sex age distrubution of a population
  25. push pull factors: reasons for migrating
  26. rate of natural increase: population growth rate
  27. religion: consist of belief in a supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainers of the universe
  28. society: A group that shares a Geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture
  29. state: An independent unit that occupies a spicific territory and has full control of it's own internal and external affairs
  30. suburb: political units touching the borders of the city or other suburbs
  31. urban geography: The study of how people use space in cities
  32. urbanization: Dramatic rise in # of cities and the change of lifestyle