Culture
The location where a religion, language, ethnicity or other cultural trait began is called a........
What is a Hearth?
Places or natural features that hold religious significance
What are sacred places?
The commercial and business center of a city.
What is the Central business district (CBD)?
A strategic location (strait or canal) that, when blocked, can stop the flow of trade.
What is a choke point.
The difference between the crude birth rate and crude death rate.
The process by which religion, language or other cultural traits spread from one group to another...
What is Cultural Diffusion?
What religion spread rapidly throughout Africa?
The indicator of level of development for each country, combining income, literacy, education, and life expectancy.
What is Human Development Index (HDI)?
The Korean Peninsula consists of Korean people who are an East Asian ethnic group that live in North and South Korea, providing an example of this political entity.
What is a multi-state nation?
Thomas Malthus theorized that population growth was exponential and ________ grew at a linear rate, which would result in _________, if not checked.
What are food supply and famine/starvation or conflict?
The blending or combining of cultural characteristics or beliefs, religion or philosophies.
What is syncretism?
South America is heavily Christian, except for the north/eastern region, which contains a population of what religion?
What is Hinduism or Islam?
The primary sector of the economy involves the extraction of natural resources, while the secondary sector transforms those raw materials into finished products. Farming or mining are examples of which sector.
What is primary sector?
After the 9/11 attacks on the United States, many people felt a surge of patriotism and national pride resulting in a sense of unity among the people. This event is an example of?
What is a (cultural) centripetal force ?
The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) shows changes in population over time and changes in a country's ___________ _____________.
What is economic development?
What is the belief that your own cultural group is more important and superior than other cultures/groups?
What is ethnocentrism?
What is the most common form of Christianity found in the Southern region of the United States?
What is the Baptist Church?
A city model that incorporates has residential areas near the CBD, peripheral squatter settlements, and a commercial spine.
What is the Latin American City Model?
He is responsible for the World Systems Theory that analyzes the economic inequalities of states and categorizes them on their operating levels of core, semi-periphery, and periphery.
Who is Wallerstein?
Policies like subsidized child care, tax breaks, and maternal/paternal leave are all this.
What are pro-natalist policies?
What is the difference between a creole and pidgin language? (answers may vary slightly).
Answers may vary slightly.
Pidgin-- Informal mixture of two languages, small vocab, no native speakers.
Creole-- A formal language of two combined languages that has native speakers, grammar rules and larger vocab.
What two religions became especially popular after the deaths of their leading figures?
What are Christianity and Islam?
The largest city in a country, disproportionately larger than the second-largest city, and dominates its political, economic, and cultural life. Mexico City is an example.
What is a primate city?
The Pyrenees Mountains that divide Spain and France are an example of this type of boundary.
What is an antecedent boundary?
Number one cause of international asylum seekers around the world.
What is fleeing armed conflicts?
A type of PUSH factor.