Lesson 1
the set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people have in common.
What is Culture?
The total amount of people in a given area
What is population?
What is Metropolitan area?
Fires, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes are all examples
What is a natural hazard?
Any place where a community is established
a society that includes a variety of cultures in the same area.
The annual number if births per 1,000 people
What is birth rate?
Found outside of cities
What is a Rural area?
Uses a sprinkler system in the center of a large circular field
What is center pivot irrigation?
The number of deaths per 1000 people
What is the death rate?
Thomas Edison
Who is the inventor of the light bulb?
The world's population passed 7 billion people in this year
What is 2012?
An area immediately outside a city
What is a Suburb?
Carved steps into steep hillsides to create flat land for growing crops
What is terrace farming?
the process of moving from one place to another
What is migration?
Family, education, religion, government, and economy
What are the most basic social institutions?
The birthrate minus the death rate
What is natural increase?
Grouped along the length of a resource, such as a river
What is a linear settlement?
Cutting down and burning forest to clear land for farming
What is slash and burn agriculture?
An activity or behavior in which people often take part
What is a culture trait?
Preforming arts, Visual arts, and literary arts
What are the three main types of creative expressions?
represented by people per square mile
What is population density?
Several metropolitan areas grown together
What is a Megalopolis?
Process breaks up rock by injecting large amounts of water and chemicals into rocks
What is Fracking?
A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry
What is an ethnic group?