The Elements of Culture
Includes all products of human work and thought
What is culture?
Reasons for migrating are sometimes referred to as
What are push-pull factors?
A type of government where citizens hold political power, either directly or through elected representatives.
What is a Democracy?
Often the birthplace of innovation and change in a society.
What are cities?
Geographers study this by looking at how people in a region support themselves and how economic activities are linked across regions.
What is economic geography?
Versions of a language.
What are dialects?
Almost 90% of the world's population lives here.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Based on physical features of the land such as rivers, lakes, or chains of mountains.
What are natural boundaries?
Formed when several metropolitan areas grow together.
What is a megalopolis?
Some groups of people simply raise enough food or animals to meet their need to eat, but have little left over to sell to others.
What is subsistence agriculture?
One of the most important aspects of culture because it allows people within a culture to communicate with each other.
What is language?
Another aspect of population density statistics is the ability of the land to support a population.
What is carrying capacity?
The three geographic characteristics that are very important in describing a country.
What are size, shape, and relative location?
The city , its suburbs, and exurbs linked together economically to form a functional area.
What is a metropolitan area?
Nations that have a low GDP and limited development on all levels of economic activities.
What are developing nations?
Considered the oldest monotheistic religion with its roots going back about 4,000 years.
What is Judaism?
Cities with more than 10 million people.
What are megacities?
A government and economic system where nearly all political power and means of production are held by the government in the name of all of the people.
What is Communism?
The core of a city that is almost always based on commercial activity.
What is the central business district?
The four basic types of economic systems.
What are Traditional, Command, Market, and Mixed Economies?
Establishes beliefs and values that define how people worship the divine being or divine forces and how they behave toward each other.
What are religions?
This is the world's largest megacity with more than 35 million inhabitants.
What is Tokyo?
These set the limits of the territory controlled by a state.
What are boundaries or borders?
Urban geographers also study land use, the activities that take place in cities. These are the three basic land use patterns found in all cities.
What are residential, industrial, and commercial?
Three basic types of natural resources.
What are renewable, non-renewable, and inexhaustible resources?