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What is the most fundamental social institution: ensuring that children be cared for until they are old enough to fend for themselves. It offers both emotional and physical assistance. It also educate cultural norms, habits, and values.
Family
Who is the inventor of the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the name given to a message about life or human nature that has meaning throughout history and in all places?
Universal Theme
Who studies the flow of people, looks at key information, and analyzes population trends to track changes in populations?
Geographers
What is a method of understanding the world through observation and experimentation?
Science
What do you call the total number of individuals in a specific area?
Population
Globalization not only connects people all over the world, but it also connects businesses and has an impact; on what?
Trade
What is the term for those who relocate to a new nation and may pick up the language or cuisine of their new home?
Immigrants
Geographers and other social scientists believe that some demands are so fundamental that societies around the world have evolved specific features to address them; these features, which are shared by all cultures, are known as what?
Cultural Universals
Where did baseball begin and expand throughout the United States?
New York
What is the name of the organization that provides medical assistance to people in need around the world?
Doctors Without Borders
How many people were compelled to flee Ireland due to poverty and disease during the mid-1800s Irish potato famine?
1.5 million
In 1870, who discovered that germs cause illnesses, revolutionizing health and medicine? To prevent illness transmission, he asked people to wash their hands.
Louis Pasteur
How many people per square mile (340 per square km) is the population density of Japan?
880
What year was the United Nations (UN) established?
1945
What makes one country different from another, with some experiencing extremely slow or even declining growth?
Population growth rates
Societies, like individuals, have fundamental requirements that must be addressed in order for a group to exist. What are the organized patterns of belief and behavior that aim to meet these needs?
Social Institutions
What percentage is equivalent to the birth rate less the mortality rate?
Natural increase
Where do hundreds of distinct cultures call home?
Earth
What is the name of an area where people cannot cultivate crops because of hard deserts or rocky mountains that do not offer a very good quality of life?
Thinly populated
What is a term for the collection of values, beliefs, and customs that a group of people shares?
Culture
What is the term for the number of losses per 1,000 persons each year?
Death rate
What is the name of the organization that brings 51 countries together to keep the world safe and peaceful?
The United Nations (UN)
What is a term for a collection of individuals who have a similar heritage and culture?
Ethnic group
What originates from African American work songs and spirituals in the American South, which show despair and struggle in the face of enormous challenges?
Blues
What obstacles might governments face as they work to ensure that their rapidly expanding populations have access to enough jobs, healthcare, and education?
High population growth rates
People must be able to produce, buy, sell, and exchange commodities and services in order to obtain what they require and desire. A society must have what in order to accomplish this?
Economy
What is the term used to describe the fact that there are typically more open spaces, less traffic, and more land accessible in dense areas?
Low population
What is the term for the annual number of newborns per 1,000 people?
Birthrate
Which cultural region spans North Africa and Southwest Asia?
Arab
What gives us access to goods from around the world?
Global trade
What is a term that expresses the populace ratio of a region by way of inhabitants per square mile or square kilometer?
Population density
What is the term used to describe the process by which countries become increasingly linked through culture and trade?
Globalization
A single country may have more than one cultural region inside its boundaries. Which country is one of many made up of different cultural regions, with different cultural traits among the people in the north and the south? While traditional culture is still prevalent in the south, northern culture tends to be more modern.
Mexico
What factors contribute to the meanings of life and death, as well as the distinction between good and evil behavior, in all societies? Traditional customs, literature, holy texts and stories, and sacred places all contribute to its transmission and support over time.
Religions
Who introduced firearms and horses to the Americas, altering the lifestyles of some Native American groups?
Spanish
What is the name given to artistic expressions that take both visual and material forms, such as painting, jewelry, sculpture, textiles, and architecture?
Visual Arts
With so many vast landscapes and so few people, how many people live in Australia per square mile (2 per square km)?
6
What is the term used to describe the spread of cultural traits from one place to another?
Cultural diffusion
Because population has such a large impact on our lives, it is an important component of what?
Geography
What term describes the utilization of knowledge, tools, and abilities to solve problems?
Technology
What is the name given to a society that encompasses multiple cultures in one location?
Multicultural society
What is the name of an activity or action that cultures frequently engage in?
Culture trait
Around how many distinct ethnic groups make up Tanzania, a country in East Africa?
100
What are the most well-known and widely accepted cultural characteristics? Food, athletics, music, and film are all instances of this.
Popular culture
What was the population of the earth around 2,000 years ago?
300 million
Who created an inexpensive and useful light bulb?
Thomas Edison
In the 1500s, who conquered much of Central and South America, spreading their language and Roman Catholic faith?
Spanish
What is the name given to art forms that combine sound and movement for an audience, such as music, theatre, and dance?
Performing Arts
What is the name of an area where people share numerous cultural characteristics?
Culture region
Masterpieces of art possess important and enduring characteristics. Woodblock prints created by a Japanese painter are an example of this form of art. It demonstrates a love for nature's beauty, simplicity, and power. What is the name of the painter?
Katsushika Hokusai
What is the term for the process of relocating to a new location to live?
Migration
What is the term for providing assistance to those in distress?
Humanitarian Aid
How many people were there in the globe in 2012?
7 billion
What is the name given to a wealth of cultural elements passed down through generations?
Heritage
This African nation's ethnic conflict in the 1990s resulted in severe violence and carnage.
Rwanda
What is the name for art forms based on words and language, such as literature, folktales, and stories?
Literary Arts
One of the main drivers of cultural changes is social interaction; what is another?
Innovation
Which country has the most influence on worldwide popular culture?
The United States
Which citizens moved to Australia in pursuit of inexpensive land in the 1800s and early 1900s?
British
What do societies rely on to pass on knowledge to their youth? Schools around the world would teach reading, writing, math, and technical skills to prepare children for adulthood.
Education
What is the term for people who share a common culture?
Culture groups
Which country is notorious for its Internet usage restrictions? Citizens must have specific permission to use the Internet, and they may only do so for government purposes.
North Korea
What is the phrase for the fact that buildings are usually taller, roads are clogged, and land is often expensive in these areas?
High population
What do you call a relationship between countries in which they depend on each other for commodities, services, or resources?
Interdependence
Which cultural region is home to the Kurds, who are found in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey?
Kurdish
What is required to maintain order and handle conflicts? It is a set of leaders and regulations that let people coexist safely in their town or country.
Government
The majority of cultural characteristics emerge inside families as customs, cuisine, or holidays; what is passed down through the ages?
Customs
Some religious groups make selective use of technology. Which group readily uses gas and horse-drawn buggies while rejecting technology that they believe will undermine their traditions, such as cars and computers?
Amish
How many people were there on the globe in 1800?
1 billion