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What is done for the purpose of making money?
Commercial
100
What is a social unit consisting of parents and their children?
Nuclear family
100
What is providing the basic needs of life?
Subsistence
100
What is a person who travels all the time in search of food?
Nomad
100
What is a social unit consisting of parents, their children and other relatives?
Extended family
200
What is the whole group of people in an area?
Population
200
What is in or around a city?
Urban
200
What are businesses that make finished products?
Industry
200
What is in the country?
Rural
200
What is the use of science for practical purposes?
Technology
300
What is everything people make, think and do?
Culture
300
What is a pattern of behavior followed by a whole group of people?
Custom
300
Give two examples of a custom.
Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays etc.
300
Why do geographers divide the world into cultural regions?
Dividing the world into different regions makes it easier for scientists to study our world, scientists can compare the different regions.
300
What is the difference between a nuclear family and an extended family?
A family that lives together with aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents is an extended family. A nuclear family is just parents and their children.
400
Give two examples of local commercial farming and one example of subsistence farming.
Commercial- Snells, Frugal Farmer, Randall’s Orchard, etc Subsistence- Your garden in your backyard or your neighbor’s yard, or a grandparents yard that you grow and share with friends and family.
400
What do religions have in common?
All have an organized set of beliefs about a god or gods and can affect an entire culture.
400
Why is the world’s population growing so quickly?
One reason is the infant death rate has decreased is because of better health care systems. (Better health care systems)
400
Why do cities have a greater population density?
More people live in each square mile of a city than in the country.
400
Compare subsistence farming to commercial farming.
Subsistence farmers grow food just for themselves and their families. They use simple tools and grow several different crops such as corn, green beans, cucumbers, etc. Commercial farmers grow crops to sell. They often use machines as well as chemicals to fertilize the soil and kill insects. They grow one crop over a large area (many acres).
500
What does a government do for it’s culture?
Government is another part of the social structure. Every culture has a government, which makes laws and tries to bring order to human life.
500
Why do people who live in different places and speak different languages know some of the same words?
Their ancestors might have migrated from the same area and spoke the same language. Overtime, the language kept changing and new words developed in the new places these people had settled. Some of the languages stayed similar but there were many changes too, some words may have stayed the same.
500
How has technology improved industry and helped build urban areas over the years?
Growing technology created more businesses and factories which increased the country’s industry. Industries began to grow and people began to sell things for a living. People left farms to move to towns where the factories were. Some of these towns grew into big cities or urban areas.