Population Pyramids
Migration
Culture
Religion
Political Geography
100
The population is growing rapidly and the death rate remains high.
What does a pyramid with a wide bottom and small top tells us?
100
a person forced to leave their country due to fear that their life is in danger
What is a refugee?
100
clothing, buildings, art
What are material components of culture?
100
religions that try to recruit more people to their religion
What is a universalizing religion?
100
the capitalist system that creates the core, semi-periphery, and periphery
What is the world systems theory?
200
the population is beginning to shrink
What does a pyramid with an inverted bottom tell us?
200
a person migrating out of a country
What is an emigrant?
200
belief that environment determines the civilizations
What is environmental determinism?
200
one of the problems Siddhartha had with Hinduism?
What is the caste system?
200
theory that the country with the most land will be the most powerful, the area is called the heartland or the pivot area
What is the heartland theory or Mackinder's theory?
300
service sector jobs
What type of jobs to stages 4 and 5 have according to the demographic transition model?
300
a person coming into a country
What is an immigrant?
300
the most basic characteristics of a culture
What is a cultural trait?
300
two philosophers from China who influences Asian philosophy--telling people they should live in harmony with nature and create a system of morals and way of life for the Chinese
Who are Tao and Confucius?
300
theory that built on Mackinder's and said that there is also a periphery in Europe and Asia that could be controlled by Russia
What is the rimland theory?
400
Industrial jobs
What types of jobs does stage 3 have on the demographic transition model?
400
low job opportunity, war, famine
What are push factors?
400
a cultural barrier causes an innovation in order for diffusion to occur
What is stimulus diffusion?
400
the movement away from religion
What is secularism?
400
Forces that bring a country together
What are centripetal forces?
500
unemployment, high dependency ration for children under 14
What are problems that stage 1 and 2 countries have?
500
majority of migrants, travel short distances, migrants are traveling who are traveling a long way tend to move to larger cities than smaller cities, rural residents are more likely to migrate than urban residents, families are less likely to migrate than are urban residents, families are less likely to migrate across national borders than young adults, every migration stream creates a counterstream
What are Ravenstein's Migration "Laws"?
500
when the weaker of two cultures adopts traits from a more dominant culture
What is acculturation?
500
conflict within religion, like the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland
What is an intrafaith conflict?
500
theory that Hitler adhered to that countries are living being that need to acquire more land to survive
What is organic theory?
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