UNIT 1
Creating maps is their job.
What is a cartographer?
The scientific study of the population of a place
What is Demography?
China instituted this policy in hopes of controlling an out of control population.
One child policy
It is the religion of the ancient Hebrews, said to be one of the first monotheistic faiths.
what is Judaism ?
This is a regional variation of a language?
what is Dialect?
Formal,functional and perceptual are variations of this.
What is a region?
This English economist agrued that population will increase geometrically rather than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
One of the two approaches in reducing birth rates in a developing country
what is Education and Contraception?
This helps individuals feel like they belong to a certain group.
What is Cultural Identity?
This is a set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols used for communication.
what is Language ?
The region from which innovative ideas originate
What is the Hearth?
The three things (data) that the demographic transition model shows.
what is Birth rates, Death rates ,and population size?
The three "groups" of people that a population pyramid shows.
what is Kids, Adults, Old People ?
What is a Lingua Franca?
what is International language of communication. (Trade language) ?
What is the mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence?
what is Genocide ?
The spread of a trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
The two revolutions that allowed for rapidly declining death rates in the 2nd stage of the DTM.
The Medical Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
This is the stage of pestilence and famine" on the DTM (Demographic Transition Model)
what is Stage 1?
What describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single nation or region
what is Mulitculturalism ?
What are two universalizing religions?
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam ?
what is a choropleth map ?
The main characteristics of the third stage of the DTM. (There should be 3)
Declining Birth Rates, Declining Death Rates, Population growth begins to slow.
Two countries that are currently in stage 5 of the DTM ( declining populations)
What is japan,Italy, Korea?
Which religions share a common hearth?
1-Hinduism and Buddhism- India
2-Christianity and Judaism -Israel (will accept Islam, but it started in Saudi Arabia/Middle East)
When parts of two or more languages are combined in simplified structure and vocabulary.
what is pidgin?