Question | Answer |
Culture | All the features of a people's way of life. |
Demography | Statistical study of human populations |
Population Density | Average number of people living in an area |
Birthrate | Number of births each year for every 1,000 people living in a place. |
Death rate | Total number of deaths each year for every 1,000 people. |
Culture Traits | Activities and behaviors that people often take part in. |
Culture Religion | An area in which people have shared many culture traits |
Ethnic Groups | Human population that shares a common culture or ancestry. |
Migration | Process of moving from one place to live in another. |
Acculturation | Process of adopting culture traits/ social patterns of another group. |
Emigrants | People who leave a country to live somewhere else. |
Innovation | Something new or different introduced |
Immigrants | People who come to a new country to live |
Push Factor | What causes people to leave a location. |
Pull Factors | Attracts people to a new location. |
Refugees | People who have been forced to leave and cannot return home. |
Assimilation | To bring into conformity with the customs |
Hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca which every Muslin is suppose to make in their lifetime |
Diffusion | Prolixity of speech or writing |
Globalization | Process of interaction among people/ companies of different nations. |
Polytheism | Belief in more than one god |
Universalizing Religion | Religion that operation on a global scale |
Missionaries | Person sent by a church for religious reasons |
Mosques | Muslim temple or place of public worship |
Traditionalism | System of faith found on tradition, or passed down. |
Dialect | Variety of a language that is distinguish from varieties of the same language |
Ethnic Religions | Religion that appeals to a specific group of people in a specific area of the world. |
Fundamentalism | Belief that every word of the Bible is true |
lingua franca | Any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages. |
Animist Religions | Religion that see's a spiritual event behind every event. |