Key Terms
What is an urban area?
What does migration mean?
To move
What is the amount of babies born in one year compared to the total number of people? It has generally increased in history, but has recently started to decrease.
Birth rate
What is culture?
the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people
What is the part of a map that describes what the colors, symbols, and more mean?
map key
What is a rural area?
Sparsely populated (countryside)
What is a push factor? AND Give one example.
A reason people leave a place.
Ex. war, natural disaster, poverty
What is population distribution?
where people live (ex. more people live on the coast than inland)
What do people in the same ethnic group share?
share a similar racial, national, tribal, religious or cultural background
What does the term refugee mean?
A person who fled a country because of war, natural disaster, or persecution
What is the term for when a city gets larger and spreads into neighboring areas?
Urbanization
What is a pull factor? AND Give one example.
Attracts people to a place
Ex. jobs, family, freedom
What is population density?
How many people live in a square mile or kilometer
Name at least 3 elements of culture.
language, religion, customs, sports, arts, food
If a country's birth rate is significantly higher than its death rate, what generally happens to its overall population size over time?
It increases.
What are human rights? Give one specific example.
rights that belong to all individuals
Ex. religious freedom, freedom of speech
Name 2 specific reasons people move to cities in particular.
More jobs, business opportunities, services like public transportation (train, bus, etc.)
What are causes of population growth?
Better healthcare, more food, cleaner water
Decreased death rate
a regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation
Ex. British vs. American Engligh
What is doubling time?
The number of years it takes a population to multiply
What is globalization? AND Give one specific example.
the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become integrated, or mixed (our world is more connected)
Ex. McDonald's operates in over 100 countries around the world.
Explain the difference between to emigrate and to immigrate.
Emigrate focuses on leaving one's country. Immigrate focuses on entering a new country.
What are effects of population growth?
Give a specific example of a cultural region and explain why it is a cultural region.
Latin America - mostly speak Spanish, practice Christianity, and eat similar food
What are the 6 major world religions we just studied by making trading cards?
Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam