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s.s ch.4
Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are three important things about culture? | culture traits, culture groups, and cultural change |
| What is culture? | Culture is a set of shared beliefs, values and practices that a group of people have in common. |
| What are some characteristics of culture? | language, religion, goevernmetn, school, day to day life, ex.clothing ,food, music |
| What are culture traits? | an activity of behavior in which people often take part. |
| What are some culture traits? | language spoken, sports, how food is eaten ex. japanese use chopstix and pizza in america is eaten with hands and in other countries they use utensils |
| How are most traits learned? | they are learned or passed down from families, traditons, law, history, environment, conflicts etc |
| who else can introduce traits? | immigrants can also introduce new cultures |
| What is a culture group? | they are groups based on age, language, religion, and location |
| What is a culture region? | an area in which people have shared culture traits. |
| In southwest asia and in north africa there will be what culture regionand why | an arab culture because they mostly write an speak arab, practice islam(are muslim),same foods, same music, same clothes, similiar archetecture |
| What are some examples of cultural regions? | mexico has many and japan only has one |
| What are culture regions based on? | ethnic groups |
| ethnic group: | group of people who share common culture and ancestry |
| What are some thingsthat would be shared in an ethnic group? | religion, language, certian foods |
| What is cultural diversity? | is te state of having a variety of cultures in the same area |
| What are some good and bad things aout cultural diversity? | Some good things are: mix of ideas, behaviors,practices bad things: conflict |
| What has changed since the 1800s in our culture? | people treated equally, more diverse, electrictiy\technolgoy, clothing and tranportation |
| Culturs change by wat? | innovation |
| What is inovation? | a new idea or way of doing somethng |
| Cultures change byy what? | as societies mix together |
| How do ideas spread? | cultural diffusion |
| cultural diffusion: | the spread of culture from one region to another |
| What are some examples of cultural diffusion? | hairstyles, clothing, music and food |
| What is population? | the total # of people in a given area |
| Population determines what? | variety of business, types of transportation, number of schools in your community |
| What is population density? | measure of # of people livng in an area |
| What happens if you have a high population? | expensive population,crowded roads and taler buildings |
| What happens wit low population? | more open space, less traffic, available land |
| Landforms and climate influence what? | population density |
| Where would dense population be found? | places with fertile soil, reliable water sources and good agriculture climate |
| /what are 3 key things used to study population changes? | birthrate, death rate, rate of natural increase |
| migration: | process of moving from one place to another |
| When would migration ocur? | warfare, lack of jobs, lack of resources, more oppurtunities in other places |
| What has created huge population growth? | better healthcare and improved food production |
| What are two important population trends? | population growth in industrialized nation slows, less industrialized countires have high growth rates |
| Why are there governments? | societies have governments to enforce laws, regulate business and trade and to provide aid to people |
| What are the types of government? | democratic, monarchy, dictatorship, communism |
| What is a place like with demcratic gov.? | People elect leaders and rule by majority, the gov works to protect the rights and freedoms of people, some may not be free..some ex, are: U.S, CANADA, MEXICO |
| What is a place like in monarchy? | It is the oldest recorded gov, ruled by king or queen or head of royal family, power with only one person, dont give people much say |
| What are some exapmeles of a monarchy? | saudi arabia |
| Norway and Spain have what kind of gov? | a monarchy with demoratic practices |
| What is a dictatorship? | A sigle leader with all control, controls by force, people not free, few rights and no say in gov, |
| What is an example of a dictatorship? | Iraq |
| What is communism? | political system where gov owns all property and controls all aspects of country, leaders chosen by other leaders or the party, governement controls economy and peoples lives, People hav little rights and havelittle freedom |
| What are some examples of communist places? | North Korea and Cuba |
| What is an economy? | a system that includes all activities that people and business do to earn a living? |
| Primary Indystry is whatz/ | using raw materials and renewable materials |
| What are some ex. of primary industry? | farming, fishing and mining |
| What are some ex, of secondary industry? | car manufacturer, furniture maker |
| What is secodary industry? | using raw materials to make things |
| What is tertiary industry? | goods and services exchanged |
| What are some ex. of tertiary business? | Car dealership,grocer and furniture store |
| What is a Quaternary industry? | research and distribution of info |
| What are some ex. of qauternary industries? | architects, lawyers, scientists |
| What are the three types of Economic Systems? | Traditional, market, and command economy |
| What is a traditional economy? | People growing their own food and make own goods, People barter and trade with no $ usually happens in remote or rural communities |
| What is a market economy? | A system based on private ownership, free trade and competition, individuals and businesses buy and sell what theu want based on supply and demand ( capatalism ) |
| What is a command economy? | A system where the central government makes all economic decisions , like what goods to produce, how much, what price for ex. many communist countries |
| What is GDP ? | Gross domestic product is the value of all goods and services produced within a counrty in a single year, geographers use this to tell them about countries wealth |
| What are developed countries? | They are powerful, wealthy nation that have strong economies and a high quality of life. They also have access to technology, good health care and good school systems |
| What are some examples of developed countries? | the u.s and germany |
| What are undeveloped countries? | Poorer nations which have less productive economies and a lower quality of life(2/3rds of worlds people) less access to technology and healthcare |
| What are some examples of undeveloped countries? | Guatemala, Nigeria, and Afghanistan |
| What is globalization? | Globalization is the process in which countries are increasingly linked to each other through culture |
| What has caused globalization? | Improvements in transportation and communications over the last 100 years |
| What is popular culture? | they are culture traits that are well known and widely accepted |
| What are some traits of popular culture? | clothes, food, sports, music, movies |
| What is the UN? | The united Nations is an organization of the worlds countries that promotes peace and security around the globe. |
| What are some things that the UN does? | they cooperate in crisis and they give humanitarian aid( assistance to people in distress) |
| What are two important parts of globalization? | Popular culture, and Global Trade |
| Wat is interdependence? | a relationship between countries inwhich they rely on one another for resources, goods or services. |
| Since countries rely on eachother for goods and services what are some ex of those? | cars and shoes |
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