Cultural Geography
What is the term for the spread of cultural traits from one group to another?
What is diffusion?
What is the study of human populations, including size, growth, and distribution?
What is demography?
What term refers to a large city and its surrounding suburbs?
What is a metropolitan area?
What is the term for the exchange of goods and services across the world?
What is globalization?
What term describes the sustainable use of natural resources?
What is conservation?
This type of diffusion involves ideas spreading through people physically moving from one place to
What is relocation diffusion?
What is the name of the graph that shows age and gender distribution in a population?
What is a population pyramid?
What is the central business district of a city commonly called?
What is downtown?
Which sector of the economy is involved in extracting natural resources, like farming and mining?
What is the primary sector?
What type of farming is practiced to minimize environmental impact, such as crop rotation and organic methods?
What is sustainable agriculture?
What do we call a region where specific cultural practices are concentrated?
What is a cultural hearth?
The average number of children a woman will have during her lifetime is called what?
What is total fertility rate?
What do we call the process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods by affluent people?
What is gentrification?
The production of goods using advanced technologies and processes is part of which economic sector?
What is the secondary sector?
The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth and regulates temperature is known as what?
What is the atmosphere?
The blending of two or more cultural influences is referred to as what?
What is syncretism?
Which model explains population growth in stages as a country develops economically?
What is the demographic transition model?
What term describes the movement of middle- and upper-class families to suburban areas?
What is suburbanization?
What term refers to the growing interconnections of the world through trade, communication, and technology?
What is economic interdependence?
The loss of fertile land in arid and semi-arid areas due to human activity and climate change is called what?
What is desertification?
What is the term for the process by which a less dominant culture adopts traits from a more dominant culture?
What is acculturation?
What term describes people moving from rural areas to cities?
What is urbanization?
What is the term for a region where several large cities and surrounding areas grow together?
What is a megalopolis?
The process of outsourcing jobs to other countries for cheaper labor is known as what?
What is offshoring?
The concept of balancing economic development and environmental protection is known as what?
What is sustainable development?