Culture
the spread of cultural traits from one group to another
What is culture diffusion?
Any common language spoken by peoples of diverse speech is today called a/an
What is an official language?
The primary purpose of commercial agriculture is to
What is make a profit.
Which economic system does the government make all economic decisions and owns most of the property- it is sometimes called communism
What is Command Economy
What is suburbanization
What is the move from urban ares to the suburds
The diffusion of ___________ culture may threaten the survival of ___________ culture in many places.
What is pop, folk culture?
The most widely diffused faith in the world is:
What is Christianity?
According to von Thünen’s original model, what type of agriculture practice would locate in the outer most concentric ring.
What is grazing
If a consumer knows that a product will be going on sale this week, how will his/her CURRENT demand be affected?
What is It will go down
Adjacent, molded metropolitan statistical areas
What is Megalopolis
What is the difference between heterogeneous and homogeneous?
homogeneous grouping” would consist of small similar factors, whereas a heterogeneous grouping would be larger and more diverse.
What is lingua Franca?
Is a language or mixture of languages used as a medium of communication by people whose native languages are different
The modern definition of agriculture includes
the deliberate domestication of plants and animals.
According to the laws of supply and demand, when will companies produce more of a product?
When they can sell it for a higher price
An example of a primate city
London, Paris, NYC, LA,Mexico City
What is the difference between push and pull factors? Give examples
Push - characteristics to make you leave a place and Pull - characteristics of a place that attract you to it.
What's the difference between dialect and slang
Dialect is a variety of a language spoken in a particular geographical area while Slang is an informal nonstandard variety of speech
Whats the economic indicator of development
Economic development takes place if real national income increases over time.
Free enterprise is an economic system in which people
are free to buy and sell goods and services with little control by the government.
The process whereby an increasing percentage of people live in an urban area is known as.
What is Urbanization
As of 2003, the largest ethnic minority group in the United States is now..
Who is Hispanics
Explain how religion has shaped the cultural landscape.(Architecture and Place)
Make the landscape distinctive (A)
Confirm the importance of religion in everyday life (P)
Why are GMOs so popular in MDCs? Why do LDCs resist them?
MDCs- increase production, increase agribusiness LDCs - loss of right to grow own food, harm to environment and traditional farming practices
Countries with advanced economies are known as _____________, while countries with lower standards of living are known as _____________.
more developed nations;less developed nations
What causes Slum development?
Poor house planning and Poverty