Question | Answer |
Demography | Study of human populations and how they change. |
Population Density | Average # of people who live on each square mile of land |
Birthrate | Ratio of total births to total population for a specific community or nation at a specific period. |
Deathrate | Ratio of total deaths to total population for a specific community or nation at a specific period. |
Migration | Moving to another place to live for a while. |
emigrants | Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country. |
Immigrants | Person that comes to a country to settle to permanently settle from another country. |
push factors | factor that leaves one with no choice but to leave home, country, region, organization or religion. |
Pull factors | lure of another country, region, organization or religion. |
refugees | person seeking refuge in foreign countries from fear of political persecution. |
Assimilation | People of different backgrounds coming together to see themselves as a larger national family. |
Culture | Arts, Customs, and habits that characterize a specific society or nation. |
Culture Traits | behavior consistent in a culture. |
Culture Region | region with one relatively human activity or complex of activities. |
Ethnic Groups | A group of people who identify with one another, especially with racial, cultural, or religious grounds. |
Innovation | A change in customs, something new |
Diffusion | spread of something more widely. |
Globalization | regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. |
Traditionalism | traditional views or practices, mostly with regard to cultural or religious matters. |
Fundamentalism | Strict maintenance of ancient or fundamental doctrines of any religion. |
Dialect | A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with small differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation. |
Lingua Franca | common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one anothe. |
Ethnic religions | religion with a concentrated distribution whose principle are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its creators are concentrated. |
Animist religions | A belief that spirits inhabit some or all classes of natural objects. |
Polytheism | Belief or existence of many gods. |
Universalizing religions | a religion where the followers attempt to appeal to all people, and seek concerts wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location. |
Monotheism | The belief in a single god, deity, spirit, especially within an organized religion, faith, or creed. |
Missionaries | person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed. |
Mosques | Place of worship for Muslims. |
Hajj | Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime |