Population Geography
number of births per year for every 1,000 people.
Birthrate
a system in which traditions and custom control all economic activity: exists in only a few parts of the world today.
Traditional economy
way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.
Culture
___________________________ system of government in which leaders rule with consent of the citizens
Democracy
the average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land.
Population Density
spreading of urban development on land near a city.
Urban Sprawl
number of deaths per year for every 1,000 people
Death Rate
a system in which factors of production are privately owned.
Capitalism
group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language.
Language families
___________________________ system of government in which a small group holds power.
Oligarchy
a system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority.
Command Economy
Region that includes a central city and its surrounding suburbs.
Metropolitan Area
the growth rate of a population; the difference between birthrate and death rate.
Natural Increase
an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned and production and price are determined by supply and demand.
Market Economy
group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin.
Ethnic group
a form of autocracy with a hereditary king or queen exercising supreme government.
Monarchy
the variations in population that occur across a country, a continent, or the world.
Population distribution
the directness of routes linking pairs of places.
Connectivity
the movement of people from place to place.
Migration
a system in which private individuals or groups have the right to own property or businesses and make a profit with limited government interference.
Free enterprise
division of the Earth in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and values.
Culture Region
system of government in which one person rules with unlimited power and authority.
Autocracy
a system of resource management in which the government supports and regulates enterprise through decisions that affect the marketplace.
Mixed Economy
cities generally considered to play an important role in the global economic system.
World City
the annual death rate exceeds the annual birth-rate.
Negative Population Growth
3 major economic systems
-Traditional
-Market
-Command
a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.
Culture Hearth
a fixed limit or extent defined along physical geographic features such as mountains and rivers.
a boundary that follows a geometric pattern
a geographic boundary between two different cultures.
Natural Boundary
Geometric Boundary
Cultural Boundary
the spread of culture traits, material and non-material, from one culture to another.
Cultural diffusion
What is a historical example of a ghost town
Gold Rush in California