People
Settlers bringing their culture to a new area
What is colonization?
Coal, Natural gas, petroleum
What are fossil fuels?
Beliefs, customs, behaviors, and practices of a particular group of people
What is culture?
Group of people with a shared culture that have organized themselves to meet their needs
What is Society?
reasons that attract people to leave their country and go to another country
What are pull factors?
People moving from rural farmlands of Georgia to the city of Atlanta
What is urbanization?
Resources that can be replaced
What are renewable resources?
an area where a cultural trait is common
What is cultural region?
Most basic unit of any society
What is family?
Reasons people are forced to leave their country
What are push factors
When people are exiting their country
What is emigrate?
Resources that can't be replaced
What are nonrenewable resources?
To bring together into one group
What is unify?
What is social class?
system of worship and beliefs including a God
What is religion?
When people go into a new country
What is Immigrate?
waste that makes the air, soil, or water unclean
What is pollution?
Set of sounds, gestures, and symbols used by humans to communicate
What is language?
parents and their children
What is a nuclear family?
Level of comfort enjoyed by a person or society
What is standard of living?
Waste that makes air, soil, or water less clean
What is pollution?
loss of forest in an area
What is deforestation?
New ways of doing things are spread from one culture to another
What is cultural diffusion?
pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society
What is Social Structure?
spreading of dry desert-like conditions
What is desertification?