Population
This model explains population growth in stages as countries industrialize
What is the demographic transition model?
Factors that attract people to a new place are known as these.
What are pull factors?
The belief that one’s culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A religion that seeks converts is known as this
What is a universalizing religion?
A language that develops from a mix of languages for trade.
What is a pidgin language?
A country in Stage 4 of the DTM is most likely experiencing this type of birth rate.
What is low birth rate?
This type of diffusion occurs when people move and bring culture with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
The spread of cultural traits from one place to another is called this.
What is cultural diffusion?
The place where a religion originates is called this.
What is a hearth?
A fully developed language that evolves from a pidgin.
What is a creole?
This measure calculates the average number of children a woman is expected to have.
What is total fertility rate (TFR)?
A law that puts a limit on immigration.
What is a quota?
Culture that is practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group.
What is folk culture?
Hinduism and Buddhism both originated in this country
What is India?
A common language used for trade between groups is called this
What is a lingua franca?
This term describes the number of people per unit of arable land.
What is physiological density?
Factors that motivate people to migrate away from an area.
What is a push factor?
When two cultures blend to create something new,
What is syncretism?
The spread of Christianity through missionaries is an example of this diffusion.
What is relocation diffusion?
Would also accept What is expansion diffusion?
Differences in pronunciation and vocabulary within the same language are called this.
What are dialects?
A country where birth rates roughly equal death rates is experiencing this type of growth.
What is zero population growth?
Migration that is not undertaken voluntarily.
What is forced migration.
When ideas spread through power structures like celebrities or governments
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The three Abrahamic religions.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
A language with no known relatives is called this.
What is an isolated language?