People & Culture
The total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a specific group.
What is culture?
The number of live births each year per 1,000 people.
What is birthrate?
A government in which the leader is believed to be divinely inspired or where religious law is the law of the land.
What is a theocracy?
An economy in which habit and custom determine the rules for all economic activity.
What is a traditional economy?
A boundary based on physical features like mountains, rivers, or deserts.
What is a Natural Boundary?
A system of belief that involves particular rituals and a moral code.
What is religion?
The number of deaths per year per 1,000 people.
What is deathrate?
A system of government where supreme power is vested in the people.
What is a democracy?
A system where the government owns or directs the means of production and controls the distribution of goods.
What is a command economy?
A region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories.
What is a metropolitan area?
A group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language.
What is a language family?
Movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
Rule by one person with absolute power; includes dictatorships.
What is an autocracy?
An economic system based on free enterprise, where businesses are privately owned.
What is capitalism (or Market economy)?
Rapid expansion of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing.
What is urban sprawl?
A group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin.
What is an ethnic group?
A diagram that shows the distribution of a population by age and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
A form of government where power is held by a small, elite group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
A country that has begun transitioning from primarily agricultural to primarily manufacturing and industrial activity.
What is a newly industrialized country?
A city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system.
What is a world city?
A division of the Earth in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, and economic systems.
What is a cultural region?
The average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land.
What is population density?
A government where power is shared between a national government and state or provincial governments.
What is a federal system?
An economy where the government supports and regulates enterprise through decisions that affect the marketplace.
What is a mixed economy?
A geographical theory that explains the number, size, and location of human settlements in a residential system.
What is central place theory?