Section 2.4
Movement
Culture
Location
Misc.
100
having two branches or chambers
What is bicameral?
100
the movement of people and goods from one place to another
What is transportation?
100
shared characteristics of a group of people
What is culture?
100
a measure of the number of people per unit area. It helps geographers understand how crowded a place is
What is population density?
100
the use of human knowledge to create tools and machines that allow us to navigate and control the environment.
What is technology?
200
a government in which the people have the power to make political decisions
What is a democracy?
200
the movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities.
What is urbanization?
200
to be able to speak or write two languages well.
What is bilingual?
200
an urban area with a population of at least 50,000, together with neighboring communities
What is a metropolitan area?
200
the relationship that people have with anything that they consider holy or spiritual, such as their God or gods
What is religion?
300
the right to vote to elect leaders or to vote on policies and laws
What is suffrage?
300
people who move from one country to live permanently in another
What is an immigrant?
300
people who are organized in a group and have a set of particular relationships with one another
What is society?
300
the major city of a region. It is significant as a center of some specific activity, such as politics, culture, or commerce
What is a metropolis?
300
the underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location
What is infrastructure?
400
a written document that describes the structure and powers of a national or state government
What is a constitution?
400
the phenomenon of large groups of people leaving the agricultural countryside and moving to cities.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
400
the condition of being made up of many different types of elements
What is diversity?
400
also called a reserve or reserve station, is an area of land that has been set aside for native people.
What is a reservation?
400
one of three major branches of Christianity. The other two branches are Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. It began as a protest movement against some of the practices and beliefs of the Catholic Church
What is Protestantism?
500
A democracy in which the members of the executive branch of government are also members of the legislative branch, which is called parliament
What is a parliamentary democracy government?
500
a term that is generally used to describe places in the countryside, usually some distance away from cities and suburbs
What is rural?
500
the transmission of ideas, customs, beliefs, and other cultural elements from one group to another
What is cultural diffusion?
500
an area, often in a city, in which a culturally distinct group of people live separately from people of other groups
What is an ethnic enclave?
500
a monarch keeps his or her ceremonial position, but all political power belongs to the people through a constitution
What is a constitutional monarchy?