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Vocab 2-1
World Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| migration | the movement of people within a country or region |
| immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| emigration | the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad |
| pull factor | a factor that draws or attracts people to another location |
| population distribution | means the pattern of where people live |
| birth rate | the number of live births per total population; often expressed per thousand population |
| death rate | the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year. |
| demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations |
| infant mortality rate | the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age. |
| life expectancy | the average period that a person may expect to live |
| population density | the average number of people who live in a measurable area, reached by dividing the number of inhabitants in an area by the amount of land they occupy |
| natural increase | the difference between the numbers of births and deaths in a population |
| globalization | the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. |
| literacy rate | the percentage of people who are able to read and write |
| census | an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals. |
| population pyramid | a graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population |
| acculturation | the cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society accept or adopt an innovation |
| culture | the total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed down by members of a group |
| culture hearth | the heartland or place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures |
| culture landscape | a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behaviors to different societies |
| spatial diffusion | covers all processes that contribute to moves, to migration inside geographical space, and to backlash effects generated in this space by those moves |
| hierarchical diffusion | A form of expansion diffusion in which an innovation gnc(or other phenomenon) spreads over space from large places to progressively smaller ones. |
| contagious diffusion | A form of expansion diffusion in which an innovation (or other phenomenon) spreads across contiguous space after direct contact between the innovator(s) and potential adapters of an innovation (or other phenomenon). |
| stimulus diffusion | diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form |
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