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W. Geography Unit 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are Islamic houses of worship called? | mosques |
| Which of the following is not a factor of development: population, literacy rate, industrialization, gross national product. | population |
| What is the belief in many gods called? | polytheism |
| Which of the following countries is a developing country? Japan, Australia, France, or Mali | Mali |
| Which of the following factors does not affect population? emigration, immigration, diffusion, or death rate. | diffusion |
| What causes culture change? | migration, war, and trade |
| The increase in connections between cultures around the world is called | globalization |
| The most important centers for economic power and wealth are____. | world cities |
| What kind of activity is a steel manufacturing plant? | secondary activity |
| Which of the following is not an organization that works to improve relations between countries? WTO, UN, NATO, CBD | CBD (stands for central business district) |
| The _____ is the number of people in a country who can read and write. | literacy rate |
| Which of the following is not a culture trait? religious beliefs, physical health, use of utensils, alphabet | physical health |
| What are examples of ethnic religions? | Taoism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Judaism |
| ________is a movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established principles and teachings? | Fundamentalism |
| Which of the following could be an example of a push factor? a country-wide famine, an increase in average income, a good harvest, a single ethnic group | a country-wide famine |
| The most basic economic system is a _____ economy | subsistence |
| Individuals who help spread a religion are _____. | missionaries |
| In which stage of the Demographic Transition is the difference between the birthrate and the death rate the largest? | Stage 2 |
| The average number of people living in an area. | population density |
| The statistical study of human populations | demography |
| new ideas accepted by a culture | innovation |
| regional variety of a language | dialect |
| A language of trade and communication | lingua franca |
| When a group adopts some traits from another culture | acculturation |
| people who leave a country to live somewhere else | emigrants |
| What are examples of universalizing religions? | Christianity, Islam ,and Buddhism |
| What is the demographic transition? | It helps us understand the changes that occur in country's populations as they industrialize. As medical care and health care improve the death rate fell, eventually the birth rate also fell as modern urban societies developed |
| What happens in the demographic transition between Stages 2 and 3? | Near the end of Stage 2 the birth rate begins to fall because people switch to a modern society, marry later, and have fewer children. |
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