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ap vocab 1

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human geography   the study of why people are the way they are, this means that location determines groups of people's behavior and lifestyles  
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homogeneous   sameness of a group  
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heterogeneous   differences within a group  
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demographics   that characteristics of a population; age and gender are most important demographics (but it can include anything from race and religion to rappers in a population or who likes ice cream)  
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demography   the study of demographics in a population  
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development   the process of improving material conditions and standard living through the diffusion of knowledge and technology  
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MDCs   more developed countries  
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LDCs   less developed countries  
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culture   the integrated system of learned behavioral patterns, which are characteristics of a group of people  
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non-material culture   ideas, values, beliefs of a culture, e.g., language, religion, and ethics  
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material culture   the physical items of a group of people usually determined by non-material culture, e.g., food, clothing, music, housing, and places of worship  
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local culture(folk culture)   the homogenous static culture of isolated groups of people, e.g., the Amish  
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global culture(popular culture)   rapidly changing, heterogeneous culture; spread through globalization  
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globalization   the process of the world becoming interconnected through technology and infrastructure  
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states   in geography and for the world, countries are called states, e.g., Germany and Mexico are states or world states  
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diffusion   the movement of something over time and through space, e.g., the flu diffuses through a population, a youtube video goes viral  
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agricultural revolution   domestication of plants and animals; occurred 10,000 years ago (8,000 BCE) lead to the development of cities  
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industrial revolution   1750 to 1850; mass production; lead to the development of modern world  
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medical revolution   the diffusion of medical technology in MDCs and LDCs  
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one billion   1,000 millions (what I want you to know is that 1 million and 1 billion are vastly different numbers, e.g., if say that china 1 million people, then you are one thousand times wrong)`  
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population of the world   7.3 billion  
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NIR   natural increase rate; the percentage that the population increases in one year  
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world NIR   1.2%; the world population increases by about 90 million per year  
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population of the United States   330 million  
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china's population   1.3 billion  
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india's population   1.1 billion  
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population of Tokyo, Japan   world's largest city; 30 million  
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