Unit 3: Population
A government count of the population is called this.
What is a census?
This is the biggest obstacle to accessing popular culture.
A religion with only one god is called this.
What is monotheistic?
A neighborhood where people of the same ethnicity cluster together is called this.
What is an ethnic enclave?
In political geography, this word means the same thing as “country.”
What is a state?
NIR stands for this population term.
What is Natural Increase Rate?
A behavior strongly forbidden by society is called this.
What is a taboo?
Christianity and Islam are examples of this type of religion.
What are universalizing and monotheistic religions?
This system of racial separation took place in South Africa.
What was the apartheid?
A system where power is divided between national and regional governments is called this.
What is a federal state?
If a country has a negative NIR, its population is doing this.
What is decreasing/shrinking?
Completely adopting another culture and losing your old one is called this.
What is assimilation?
A government or society not connected to religion is described as this.
What is secular?
Laws requiring segregation are examples of this type of segregation.
What is de jure segregation?
The United Nations was created after this major war.
What is WWII?
A population pyramid with a very wide base usually belongs to this type of country.
What is a Less Developed Country?
The spread of ideas or culture from one place to another is called this.
What is diffusion?
A regional variation of a language is called this.
What is a dialect?
This Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Rivers and mountains are examples of this type of boundary.
What are physical boundaries?
This stage of the Demographic Transition Model has the fastest population growth.
What is Stage 2?
This type of culture spreads quickly through media and technology.
What is popular culture?
When one country takes control of another territory and spreads its language and culture, it is called this.
What is colonization?
Forces that divide a country, such as ethnic conflict, are called these.
What are centrifugal forces?
Indonesia is an example of this state shape made up of islands.
What is a fragmented state?