VOCAB

CULTURE

• the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
• Basically what you eat, religion,the way you live.

society

• the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
• The community you live in.

ETHNIC GROUP

• An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience.
• Basically multiple people called something

INNOVATION

• the action or process of innovating.
• process of innovating

Cultural diffusion

• Cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. The mixing of world cultures through different ethnicities, religions and nationalities has increased with advanced communication, transportation and technology.
• Different religions

acculturation

• cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; also : a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact. : the process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy.
• People that are not from another culture but adapt to it.

dialect

• a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group. "this novel is written in the dialect of Trinidad"
• A novel or like a paragraph.

GLOBALIZATION

• Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.
• Governments.

POLICTICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Political geography is a specific field of study within the more general field of human geography that examines how people in specific locations around the world have organized themselves into distinctive political groups, and how they influence and interact with each other.
• Specific kind of study

NATION

• a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. "leading industrialized nations
• A country

DEMOCRACY

• a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
• What the USA uses.

THEOCRACY

• a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
• A priest is the government

DICTATORSHIP

• government by a dictator.
• Government by the king or the standard.

TOLTALITARIAN

• of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. "a totalitarian regime" synonyms:
• Another type of government.

CUMMUNISM

• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
• A political theory

MONARCHY

• a form of government with a monarch at the head.
• A king or queen

NATIONLISM

• patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.
• Patriotic

COLONIZTIAN

• Colonization is the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin.
• Setting a colony

POPULATION PYRAMID

• A population pyramid, also called an age pyramid or age picture diagram, is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.
• The population in a pyramid graph

subsistence farming

• subsistence farming definition. Farming that provides enough food for the farmer and his family but not enough for sale. By comparison, commercial farming is farming that provides products for sale.
• Food that provides people.

COMMERCIAL FARMING

• Cereals: crops where the seeds are the main product e.g. wheat, corn. Commercial Farming: farming for a profit, where food is produced by advanced technological means for sale in the market. Often very few workers are employed. (See Subsistence Farming).
• The main product is wheat

Traditional economy

• Traditional economy is an original economic system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs shape the goods and the services the economy produces, as well as the rules and manner of their distribution. Countries that use this type of economic system are often
• What the U.S.a has

COMMAND ECONOMY

• an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
• High taxes prices and stuff

FREE MARKET ECONOMY

• A free market is a market economy system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between vendors and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.
• The prices are good

MIXED ECONOMY

• an economic system combining private and public enterprise.
• Private and public enterpise

PUSH PULL FACTORS

• push factor. 1. noun. a negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave, esp. in one's country, region, organization, religion, etc. In migration, push factors are those that encourage a population to leave its home.
• Negative aspect

URBANIZATILM

• Urbanization is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. This is called urbanization. Maybe tall apartment buildings spring up on what had been the outskirts of town, bringing more people there to live and work.
• Almost a city

SUBURB

• an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
• Outlying a city

metropolitan area

• metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metropolitan region, metro area or just metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing: industry, infrastructure, and housing.

central business district

• A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. In larger cities, it is often synonymous with the city's "financial district".
• A business

RELIGION

• the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. "ideas about the relationship between science and religion" synonyms:
• A belief

MONOTHISM

• Monotheism is the belief in a single all-powerful god, as opposed to religions that believe in multiple gods. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are widely practiced forms of monotheism.
• They believe in one god

POLYTHEISM

• Polytheism is belief in many gods — it's kind of the opposite of monotheism, which is belief in one god. If you believe in polytheism, you have a bunch of gods to thank or blame.
• They believe in more than one god

ANIMISM

• Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the worldview that non-human entities—such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects—possess a spiritual essence.
• The world view

CHRITIANITY

• the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
• They believe in the lord jesus

ISLAM

• the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.

JUDAISM

• the monotheistic religion of the Jews.

HINDUISM

• a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, developed from Vedic religion.

BUDDASIM

• hism /ˈbudɪzəm/ is a nontheistic religion [note 1] or philosophy (Sanskrit: dharma; Pali: dhamma) that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha ("the awakened one").

ECONOMY

• the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.

NATURAL RECOURCES

• the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.

INFASTRUCTURE

• the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

PER CAPITA INCOME

• Per capita income is the mean money income received in the past 12 months computed for every man, woman, and child in a geographic area. It is derived by dividing the total income of all people 15 years old and over in a geographic area by the total population in that area.

GROSA DOMESTIC PRODUCT

• the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
• The final income of goods

fertility rate

• The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, period total fertility rate (PTFR) or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if:

Population Density

• Definition of Population Density. In biology, populations are groups of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same region at the same time. Population density is a measure of the number of organisms that make up a population in a defined area.

developed country

• A developed country, industrialized country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY

• a nonindustrialized or Third World country.