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governments and cultures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| authoriatarian | one person, or a group of people control(s) the country |
| demography | the study of population and its growth |
| communism | the state contols what you sell and what you make |
| acculturation | adapting to that culture |
| democracy | the people have contol |
| cultural hearth | where a culture (starts) comes from |
| socialism | the state and the people (a mix) decide (share the responsibilities of) what you sell and what you make |
| capitalist system (capitalism) | the people contol what you sell and what you make |
| immigrant | someone who comes into a country |
| urbanization | the change from a small town to a big town |
| death rate | number of people who die (per thousand people) |
| birth rate | number of people who are born (per thousand people) |
| federal system | two governments that control the country |
| sovereignty | where the country has contol over itself |
| diffusion | the spreading out of something |
| confederation | smaller units (like the state) of the country that contol themselves. In other words, the states have power |
| population density | the population of people per square mile or square kilometer |
| what is the concept of population growth? | population growth is how the earth's population is rasing rapidly |
| what is zero population growth? | where the birth rate and the death rate equal out |
| how many regions contain most of the population? What are they? | 4 regions, Eastern North America, Europe, east asia, and south asia |
| what are population patterns? | many people live in a certain 4 regions. among these region, most of the people live in the metropolitan (urban) cities. |
| what is the cultural hearth of eastern asia? | China |
| What kind of government does Japan and great britain have? | Unitary |
| What is the cultural hearth of the americas? | Europe |
| how do people survive in different climates? | they adapt |
| what are the 3 economic systems? | socialism, communism, and capitalism |
| is it good or bad that the population is growing? | opinion... optimistic, unoptimistic |