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World Geography

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migration   the movement of people within a country or region  
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immigration   the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.  
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emigration   the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad  
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pull factor   a factor that draws or attracts people to another location  
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population distribution   means the pattern of where people live  
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birth rate   the number of live births per total population; often expressed per thousand population  
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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.  
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demography   the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations  
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infant mortality rate   the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age.  
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life expectancy   the average period that a person may expect to live  
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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  
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natural increase   the difference between the numbers of births and deaths in a population  
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globalization   the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.  
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literacy rate   the percentage of people who are able to read and write  
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census   an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.  
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population pyramid   a graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population  
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acculturation   the cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society accept or adopt an innovation  
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culture   the total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed down by members of a group  
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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  
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culture landscape   a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior  
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diffusion   the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behaviors to different societies  
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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  
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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.  
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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).  
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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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