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World Geo vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | Total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a specific group |
| Ethnic Group | Specific group that shares a language, customs, and a common heritage |
| Innovation | Taking new technolgy and renevation and creating something new |
| Diffusion | THe spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior |
| Cultural Health | Site of innovation where basic ideas, materials and technology diffuse to many cultures |
| Acculation | When society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation |
| Dialect | Reflects changes in speech patterns related to class, region, or other cultural changes |
| Religioun | Belief in supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainess of the universe |
| Birth rate | Number of live births per thousand population |
| Fertility rate | Average number of children a woman of childbearing has in her lifetime |
| Mortality rate | Number of deaths per thousand population (death rate) |
| Infant Mortality | Number of deaths among infants under age one per thousand live births |
| Rate of Natural increase | Population growth rate |
| Population pyramid | Graphic device that shows dex and age distribution of population |
| Push-pull factors | Caus of migration to another region and what pulls them into a region |
| Population density | Average numebr of people that live in area per square mile |
| Carrying Capacity | number of organisms a piece of land can support |
| State | To describe an independent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control of it's internal and external affairs |
| Nation | Refers to to a group of people with a common culture living in a territory having a strong territory |
| Nation State | WHen a nation and state occupy the same territory |
| Democracy | citizens hold political powere directly or through elected representatives |