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Beginning Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Human Geography | The study of why people are the way they are, where they are. This means that location determines groups of peopleâs behavior and lifestyles. |
| Homogeneous | Sameness of a group |
| Heterogeneous | Differences within a group |
| Demographics | The characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important demographics (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream) |
| Demography | The study of demographics in a population |
| Demographic Transition | Changes in a population based on development |
| Development | The process of improving material conditions and standard of living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology |
| MDCs | More developed countries |
| LDCs | Less developed countries |
| Culture | The integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristics of a group of people |
| Non-material Culture | Ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e. g., language, religion, ethics |
| 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 |
| Local culture (folk culture) | The homogenous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish |
| Global Culture (popular culture) | Rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization |
| Globalization | The process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure |
| States | In geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states |
| Diffusion | The movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a YouTube video goes viral |
| Agricultural Revolution | Domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE). Lead to the development of cities. |
| Industrial Revolution | 1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of the modern world |
| Medical Revolution | The diffusion of medical technology from MDCs and LDCs |
| One Billion | 1,000 million; 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., if you say China has 1 million people, then you are one thousand times wrong |
| Population of the World | 7.3 billion |
| NIR | Natural increase rate; the percentage that the population increases in one year |
| World NIR | 1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year |
| Population of the United States | 330 million |
| Chinaâs Population | 1.3 billion |
| Indiaâs Population | 1.1 Billion |
| Population of Tokyo, Japan | Worldâs largest city; 30 million |
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Kkimbrel
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