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Human Geography Vocabulary

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the study of why people are the way they are where they are. This means that location determines groups of people’s behavior and lifestyles.   Human Geography  
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sameness of a group   Homogeneous  
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differences within a group   Heterogeneous  
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the characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream)   Demographics  
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the study of demographics in a population   Demography  
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changes in a population based on development   Demographic transition  
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the process of improving material conditions and standard of living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology   Development  
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more developed countries   MDCs  
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less developed countries   LDCs  
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the integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristic of a group of people   Culture  
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ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e.g., language, religion, ethics   Non-material culture  
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the physical items of a group of people usually determined by non-material culture, e.g., food, clothing, music, housing, places of worship   Material culture  
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the homogeneous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish   Local culture (folk culture)  
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rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization   Global culture (popular culture)  
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the process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure   Globalization  
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in Geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states   States  
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the movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a YouTube video goes viral   Diffusion  
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domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE). Lead to the development of cities   Agricultural revolution  
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1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of the modern world   Industrial Revolution  
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the diffusion of medical technology from MDCs to LDCs   Medical Revolution  
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1,000 millions; what I want you to know is that 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., If you say that China has 1 million people, then you are one thousand times wrong!   One Billion  
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7.3 BILLION   Population of the World  
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natural increase rate; the percentage that the population increases in one year   NIR  
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1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year   World NIR  
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330 million   Population of the United States  
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1.3 BILLION   China’s Population  
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1.1 BILLION   India’s Population  
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World’s largest city; 30 million   Population of Tokyo, Japan  
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