Population and Density
What is the formula used to calculate population density?
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What is total population divided by land area?
What term describes the customs, beliefs, and arts shared by a group of people?
What is culture?
What is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another called?
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What is cultural diffusion?
What is the term for an area with a high population and dense development?
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What is an urban area?
What is the linear arrangement of settlements along a feature such as a road or river called?
What is a linear settlement?
What term describes the number of people living in a specific area?
Daily Double!
What is population?
What is a single characteristic or practice that is part of a culture?
What is a culture trait?
What are patterns, behaviors, or traits common to all human cultures called?
What are cultural universals?
What type of settlement is typically on the outskirts of a city and less densely populated?
What is suburban?
What type of settlement groups houses close together in one spot, often for safety?
Daily Double!
What are cluster settlements?
How do you measure how crowded an area is?
What is population density?
What region is defined by shared cultural traits and practices?
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is a culture region?
What term refers to the traditions, practices, and beliefs passed down from previous generations?
What is heritage?
What term describes a large metropolitan area that includes multiple cities or towns?
What is a metropolitan area?
What is the planned, grid-like arrangement of streets and buildings called?
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What is a grid settlement?
Which demographic indicator refers to the rate at which new people are born in a population?
What is birthrate?
What term identifies a group of people with shared ancestry, language, or history?
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What is an ethnic group?
What is a theme that appears in many different cultures and times, such as family or art?
What is a universal theme?
What is a very large, densely populated urban area that merges multiple cities?
Wrong answer is -100
What is a megalopolis?
What activity involves buying and selling goods and services?
What is commerce?
What is the movement of people from one place to another called?
What is migration?
What type of society includes many different cultural groups living together?
What is a multicultural society?
What is the application of tools, techniques, and knowledge to solve problems called?
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What is technology?
What term describes rural areas with low population density and open land?
What is rural?
What farming practice involves creating stepped, flat areas on a hillside to grow crops?
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What is terraced farming?