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EOC Vocab Evans
The Vocab for World Geography EOC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gender Role | roles specifically assigned to men or women in a culture |
| Urban | referring to a city setting; usually has a high population density and diverse cultures |
| Ural | mountain range that runs through western Russia and is considered to be the dividing line between Europe and Asia |
| Multicultural | containing a mix of peoples and cultures |
| Social Class | divisions of a cultures people based on wealth, power and prestige |
| Socil Mobility | refers to how easy or hard it is to change one’s social class within a culture. |
| Cultural Region | region where people share common cultural characteristics |
| Function Region | area defined by one function that may cross political boundaries. Often they are organized around a focal point such as a city |
| Perceptual Region | based on people’s attitudes and emotions about a place. |
| Middle East | Region that lies at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| Suez Canal | canal that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and shortens the traveling distance between Europe and Asia |
| Latin America | applies to all of the Americas south of the United States. It has 4 main areas, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies ( Caribbean) and South America |
| Panama Canal | An important human-made feature in this region that goes through the Isthmus of Panama joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and serves as a major route for International trade. |
| Sub Saharan Africa | the areas of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Many different ethnic groups with animistic, Christian, and Islamic religions; many affected by the slave trade and colonization |
| Oceania | the Pacific islands of New Zealand ( colonized by the British) and other smaller nations like Tahiti that are spread across the South Pacific |
| Demograghy | the study of population. |
| Urbanization | the movement of greater numbers of people into cities |
| Settlement Patterns | Human factors affect where people settle, like having a capital city at a central location; location along transportation routes; new technology can override physical barriers, and natural resources can attract settlers to an otherwise unfavorable area |
| Population Density | how many people live in a given area |
| Population Pyramid | a visual that compares the number of males and females in a society and it includes the average ages of its members. Each group will be represented by a different bar |
| Shanty Town | a slum settlement where poor people live in dwellings made from scrap materials—such as plywood, corrugated metal and plastic sheets. |
| Push and Pull Factors | the major reasons for migration that either “push” people out of their old location while “pull” factors lure migrants to a new location. |
| Social Factors | concern how people organize into groups, such as religious groups. |
| Ethnic Persecution | when they need to migrate due to being persecuted for being members of a particular ethnic group. Ex: Rwandans needed to flee to neighboring countries to avoid being massacred |
| Religious Persecution | when religious minorities have to leave a place due to their beliefs |
| Environmental Factors | migration due to the environment, like a drought, crop failures, floods, fires, earthquakes that force people to migrate. |
| Forced Migration | when a migration is forced such as the Atlantic Slave Trade. This migration has accompanied war and the persecution of people throughout most of history. |
| Physical Barriers | natural features that were once a migration to human migration. Examples are mountains, deserts or dense forests. |
| Land Bridge | a natural feature where people used to be able to walk from one land mass to another, like across the Bering Strait now that used to be a land bridge from Asia to North America ( Alaska area) |
| Diffusion | how something diffuses or spreads |
| Spatial exchange | (Cultural Diffusion) when ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another. |
| Columbian Exchange | when new plants, animals, ideas and even diseases were exchanged between the peoples of the Americas and those of Europe. |
| Cultural Convergence | when different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts. |
| Cultural Divergence | when different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar |
| Pandemic | an epidemic over a wide geographic area. |
| Traditional Ways | these societies prefer to do things much as their ancestors have done |
| Genocide | when a dominant group tries to completely eliminate a religious or ethnic group -The mass murder of a people. |
| Terrorism | the use of threats of terror against innocent civilians to gain attention and achieve a group’s aims |
| Technology | the use of materials, tools, and skills to meet human needs. |
| Technological Innovation | the development of new technologies |
| GPS | a spatial information system that merge information from satellites and land base sources. |
| Desalinization | the removal of salt from ocean water |
| Constitutional monarchy | kingdom in which the ruler’s powers are limited by a constitution |
| Direct Democracy | a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly |
| Representative Democracy | government where the people rule through elected representatives |
| Dictatorship | government in which an individual or groups holds complete power |
| Political Power | ability of a person or group to determine the policy of a government to serve their individual or group interest |
| Political Region | a geographic area that is run by a specific government and has its own laws; there are various levels of political regions, such as: a country, a state, districts within a state, and cities within a state |
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