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Human Geo Vocab
Human Geography Vocabulary
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| the study of why people are the way they are where they are. This means that location determines groups of people’s behavior and lifestyles. | Human Geography |
| sameness of a group | Homogeneous |
| differences within a group | Heterogeneous |
| the characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream) | Demographics |
| the study of demographics in a population | Demography |
| changes in a population based on development | Demographic transition |
| the process of improving material conditions and standard of living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology | Development |
| more developed countries | MDCs |
| less developed countries | LDCs |
| the integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristic of a group of people | Culture |
| ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e.g., language, religion, ethics | Non-material culture |
| the physical items of a group of people usually determined by non-material culture, e.g., food, clothing, music, housing, places of worship | Material culture |
| the homogeneous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish | Local culture (folk culture) |
| rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization | Global culture (popular culture) |
| the process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure | Globalization |
| in Geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states | States |
| the movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a YouTube video goes viral | Diffusion |
| domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE). Lead to the development of cities | Agricultural revolution |
| 1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of the modern world | Industrial Revolution |
| the diffusion of medical technology from MDCs to LDCs | Medical Revolution |
| 1,000 millions; what I want you to know is that 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., If you say that China has 1 million people, then you are one thousand times wrong! | One Billion |
| 7.3 BILLION | Population of the World |
| natural increase rate; the percentage that the population increases in one year | NIR |
| 1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year | World NIR |
| 330 million | Population of the United States |
| 1.3 BILLION | China’s Population |
| 1.1 BILLION | India’s Population |
| World’s largest city; 30 million | Population of Tokyo, Japan |