Term | Definition |
1.Culture | the way of life that distinguishes a people, for example, government language religion customs and beliefs |
2.Population Density | the average number of people living in a given area |
3.birthrate | the number of live births each year per 1,000 people. |
4.Immigrant | a person who moves into a country. |
5.Uebanization | the growth of city populations. |
6.rural | of characteristics of, the countryside. |
7.Culture Hearth | a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures. |
8.diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted from group of individuals to another. |
9.cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside influences. |
10.Emigrant | a person who lives a country to live elsewhere. |
11.Cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture with another. |
12.Soverignty | a country's freedom and power to decide on poletics and actions. |
13.Unitary System | a system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power |
14.Federation | a government structure in which some pwers re given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
15.Confederation | A system of government in which individual political units keep their soverignty but give limited power to a central government. |
16.authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in which the leaders hold all political power |
17.dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power is held by a small group or one person |
18.totalitarianism | a system of government in which a central authory contorls all aspects of socity |
19.Monarchy | a system of authoritarian government headed by a monarch a king queen shah or sultan whose position is usually inherited |
20.Democrasy | a system of government in which thr people are invested with the power to choose their leaders and determine government policy |
21.tradicional economy | an economic system activity in which people do not directly gather or precess raw materials but pursue activities that serve others; service industry |
22.market economy | an economic system in which decisions about production price and other economic factors are determined by the law of suply and deman |
23.command economy | an economic system that is controlled by a single central government |