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vocabulary
population
human migration
culture
miscellaneous
100
This is the way in which people in a culture are organized into small groups.
What is social structure?
100
People tend to settle near places that have these
What are waterways that can be used for trade and travel?
100
The push-pull theory is used by scientists to explain this.
What is immigration?
100
This is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs
What is culture?
100
These are two major religions of the world
What are Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, or Confucianism?
200
A scientist who studies population
What is demographer?
200
Demographers figure out population growth by comparing these two things.
What are birth rate and death rate?
200
Large numbers of people have moved from rural areas to urban areas because they want this
What is give their children more opportunities
200
These are a particular group's distinct skills, customs, and way of doing things.
What is a cultural trait?
200
Religion can help guide people in these, or standards of accepted behavior.
What are ethics?
300
The average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
300
Because of the increase in food supply and better medical care, the world's population recently has done this
What is rapidly increased?
300
Demographers use this theory to describe why people immigrate from one place to another.
What is the push-pull theory?
300
Two important features of culture we read about are these
What are language and religion?
300
These are two major family units.
What is the nuclear and extended families?
400
tools and skills people need to use them
What is technology?
400
This is the way people are spread out over an area
What is population distribution?
400
This is a person moving from one country to another
What is immigrant?
400
This is the basic social unit in a culture.
What is family?
400
True or false? People speak the same language in the same country.
What is false?
500
Define ethics.
What are standards of accepted behavior?
500
This is the difference between population distribution and popluation density
What is how people are spread out over an area (population distribution) and the average number of people living in a square mile (pop density)?
500
This is the movement of people to cities and the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
500
Social structure is important to a culture because it helps people do this.
What is work together to meet basic needs?
500
These are two problems of urbanization
What is overcrowded living quarters, schools, jobs, hospitals, and other services.