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Vocabforchapter5
human geo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is culture? | The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation. |
| What are culture traits? | activities and behavior that people often take part in |
| What is a culture region? | an area in which people have many shared culture traits |
| What are ethnic groups? | human population that shares a common culture or ancestry |
| What is acculturation? | when an individual or group adopts traits from another culture |
| what is innovation? | new ideas that a culture accepts |
| What is a death rate | the number of people that die each year |
| what is a birthrate? | the number of people born each year |
| what is migration? | moving from one place to live in another place |
| what is diffusion? | an idea or innovation thatg is spread from one person or group to another |
| what is globalization? | connections around the world increase and the world become more alike |
| what is demography? | the statistical study of human populations |
| population density | the average number of people living in an area |
| push factors | makes people want to leave their current location |
| pull factors | attracts people to a new location |
| immigrant | people who come to a new country to live |
| emigrant | people who leave one place to go to another |
| refugees | people who are forced to leave and cannot return to their homes |
| traditionalism | The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters. |
| fundamentalism | The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts |
| dialect | language of a particular area |
| lingua franca | a common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another |
| ethnic religions | religion that appeals primarily to a specific group of people from a specific place |
| animist religions | belief held in many religions around the world |
| polytheism | The belief of the existence of many gods |
| universalizing religions | a religion that attempts to operate on a global scale and to appeal to all people |
| monotheism | belief of a single god |
| missionaries | A person who travels attempting to spread a religion |
| mosques | a place of worship for muslims |
| hajj | The pilgrimage to Mecca made by pious Muslims; one of the five pillars |
| assimilation | the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups |
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