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19 Cards in this Set
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Dialect |
A version of a language that reflects changes in speech patterns due to class, region, or cultural changes |
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Religion |
The belief in a supermatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainers of the universe , as well as the system of beliefs |
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Fertility Rate |
The average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime, if she had children at the current rate for her country |
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Mortality rate |
The number of deaths per thousand |
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Infant Mortality rate |
The number of deaths among infants under age one as measured per thousand live births |
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Rate of natural increase, also called population growth rate |
The rate at which population is growing, found by subtracting the mortality rate from the birth rate |
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Pull factor |
a factor that draws or atracts peiple to another loction |
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Push factor |
A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region |
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population density |
The average number of people who live in a measurable area, reached by dividing the number of inhabitants in an area by the amount of lands they occupy |
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Carrying capacity |
The number of organisms a pieace of land can support without negitive effects |
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State |
A political term describing an independent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control to its internal and external affairs |
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Nation |
A group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity |
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Landlocked |
Having no oultlet to the sea |
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Urban geogrphy |
The study of how people use space in cities |
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City |
An area that is the center of business and culture and has a large population |
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Suburb |
A political unit of community touching the borders of the central city or touhing other suburbs that touch the city |
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Metropolitan area
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A functional area including a city and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs, linked economically |
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Urbanization |
The dramatic rise in the number of cites and the changes in lifestyle that results |
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Economy |
The production and exchange |
