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6th Grade
Unit 4: Population and Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call the set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people has in common? | Culture |
| What do you call an activity or behavior in which people often take part? | Culture trait |
| The language you speak and the sports you play are examples of your what? | Culture traits |
| What do you call an area in which people have many shared culture traits? | Culture region |
| Who are a group of people who share a common culture and ancestry? | Ethnic group |
| What do you call having a variety of cultures in the same area such as Mexicans, Americans and Canadians all living in Michigan? | Cultural diversity |
| What do you call the spread of culture traits from one region to another? | Cultural diffusion |
| The spread of baseball from America to Japan and other countries is an example of what? | Cultural diffusion |
| The process by which countries are increasingly linked to each other through culture and trade | globalization |
| Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life are called what? | Developing countries |
| Is the USA a developed or developing country? | Developed country |
| What do you call culture traits that are well known and widely accepted such as soft drinks and American television shows? | Popular culture/fad/trend |
| Which theme of geography deals with how people, goods, services and ideas get from place to place? | Movement |
| Give an example of how products made in China are imported to the United States. | Shipping on boats and planes. |
| What is an example of a tool from the past that has changed in the present. | Answers will vary-dial phones to cell phones; boxed tvs to flat screen tvs, etc. |
| What do you call the total number of people living in an area? | population |
| What do you call the measure of the number of people living per square mile? | population density |
| What is the movement of people from one place to live in another? | migration |
| What is the name of the theory used to describe factors that make people leave an area and/or attract them to another area? | push pull theory |
| Give an example of migration because of pushes. | war, natural disasters, lack of healthcare. poor treatment from government |
| Where do most people tend to live? | Near water and cities. |
| What is a negative effect of too many people living in urban areas? | Not enough jobs or housing, increased pollution, higher crime, noisy, crowded, etc. |
| What is a positive effect of living in a city? | Better job opportunities, more technology, more diversity, better healthcare, etc. |
| What does urban mean? | City |
| What does rural mean? | Countryside |
| What is sparse? | Spread out; thin |
| What in dense? | How thick or crowded something is |
| What is a megacity? | Population of 10 million or more |
| What are some concerns of people moving quickly to megacities? | More slum areas, more trash and pollution problems, not enough housing or electricity |
| What are the four stages of culture? | tools, fire, farming and writing |
| What term was given for the era when we went from hunting and gathering to relying on farms and herds and settling all over the world? | Agriculture revolution |
| What are some reasons the population grew so quickly from the 1800s to present day? | Better food, better medicine, educated |
| What continent does over half the population live on? | Asia |
| What do you call the study of world's population? | demography |
| What do you call the number of births per 1000 people? | birthrate |
| Every second of everyday the world's population increases by how many people? | three |
| What do you call tools and the skills people need to use them to advance a culture? | technology |
| What is the most basic unit of any culture from whom you learn your traditions from? | family |
| What do you call a person who moves to a new country in order to settle there? | immigrant |
| What do you call the study of the world's people, communities, cultures and landscapes they create? | Human geography |
| What do you call the number of deaths per 1000 people? | death rate |
| What do you call the birth rate minus the death rate? | Rate of natural increase |
| What do you call a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster:? | refugee |
| What are the two most populated continents in the world? | Asia and Africa |
| What are the two most populated countries in the world containing the most megacities? | India and China |
| What do you call areas surrounding megacities where people are forced to set up unsanitary living conditions in order to be near the urban life? | Slums |
| Give examples of migration due to pulls. | Better job, better education, better climate, better healthcare and government, freedom, family |
| Once a culture records its traditions it is known as this. | civilization |
| Movement from the countryside to the city. | Urbanization |
| What do you call culture traits that are well known and widely accepted? | Popular culture |
| What do you call any form of behavior that is intensely followed by a population for a short period of time? | Fad |
| What do you call a culture trait that gets stronger over time and sticks around for several decades? | Trend |
| What do you call a period of ten years? | Decade |
| What is the process in which countries are increasingly linked to each other through culture and trade called? | globalization |
| What is the reliance of one country on the resources, goods, or services of another country? | interdependence |
| What is the name of the organization of the world's countries that promotes peace and security around the globe? | United Nations |
| What do you call giving assistance to people in distress? | humanitarian aid |
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