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Global
Ch.3 Sec.1
Term | Definition |
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culture | the beliefs and actions that define a group of people's way of life |
population density | the average number of people in a square mile or a square kilometer |
birthrate | the number of births each year per 1,000 people |
immigrant | people who move into a country |
emigrant | people who move out of a country |
urbanization | the growth of city populations |
rural | countryside |
culture hearth | a place where important ideas begin and from which they spread to surrounding cultures |
cultural convergence | when skills, arts, ideas, habits, and institution of one culture come in contact with those of another culture |
diffusion | the process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group or individual to another |
cultural divergence | the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences |
MAIN IDEAS | the study of human geography focuses on a number of population topics, as well as many cultural topics |