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overpopulation |
when a country can no longer sustainably support its population because it has reached its carrying capacity |
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concentration/people |
two-thirds of the worlds ppl live in four clusters- east asia, south asia, europe, and southeast asia |
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physiological density |
# of ppl supported by a unit area of arable land |
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arable land |
land that is able to be farmed |
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agricultural density |
ratio of number of farmers to amount of agricultural land |
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arithmetic density/population density |
total number of people divided by the total land area |
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medical revolution |
diffusion of medical technologies to LDC's |
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doubling time |
the amount of time it takes the world's population to double
earths is 54 years |
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life expectancy |
the number of years a newborn infant can be expected to live at current mortality rates |
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stage 1 |
CBR high, CDR high, natural rate of increase flat/even |
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stage 2 |
CBR still high-no birth control yet, CDR drops, natural rate of increase=population explosion |
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stage 3 |
CBR decreases-BIRTH CONTROL, CDR stays low because of vaccinations, natural increase rate even but declining |
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stage 4 |
CBR decreases, CDR low-starting to increase, natural increase rate is leveling off
United States in stage 4 |
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stage 5 |
CBR waayyy down, CDR rises because viruses are becoming immune to vaccinations, population down
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Thomas Malthus |
said population would run out of food because food increases mathematically and population increased exponentially |
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mobility |
the ability to move |
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migration |
movement of people from one place to another |
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net migration |
difference between # of immigrants and # of emmigrants |
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pull factors |
things that encourage people to move to a new location |
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push factors |
factors that make people want to leave their present location |
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intervening obstacles |
enviromental/cultural features that hinders migration |
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forced migration |
someone who is forced to move from their home (Jews into ghettos) |
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Brain Drain |
the emigration of talented/smart people
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legal immigrants |
immigrants who are living in a country legally
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interregional migration |
movement from one region of a country to another |
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immigration |
movement to a location |
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emigration |
movement from a location |
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refugees |
anyone who moves to escape religion, or race persecution |
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custom |
a repetitive act of a group
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hierarchal diffusion |
the spread of an idea from a person of authority or power to others down the chain |
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vernacular/perceptual region |
a region that exists in peoples minds
EX: the "ghetto", heaven or hell |
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functional/nodal regions |
defined by a social/economic function that occurs between a focal point and the surrounding areas
EX: New York Times= functional region.. New York =node (center) |
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formal/uniform region |
specific charactersitics that are uniform throughout an area |
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expansion diffusion |
spread of something in a snowballing process |
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contagious diffusion |
rapid and widespread
EX: Ebola, AIDS |
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stimulus diffusion |
spread of a principle |
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uniform landscape |
landscape with uniform (same) characteristics throughout the area |
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folk culture |
the cultural practices of small, homogenous groups living in traditional societies
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popular culture
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the cultural practices of large, heterogeneours societies that share many habitants and characteristics |
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soccer |
started as folk culture but became popular culture |
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taboos |
restrictions on certain behaviors like the consumption of certain foods |
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jeans |
popular culture |
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relocation diffusion |
movement of ideas things or people from one place to another |
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dialect |
regionally distinct versions of a single language that are distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation |
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language branch |
collection of languages related through a common ancestor within a language family |
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language family |
collection of languages that originally related through a common ancestor |
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language group |
set of languages within a branch |
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english branch |
indo european |
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lingua franca |
language of international communications |
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isogloss |
word-use boundary |
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creole |
where the linguistic traditions of indigneous people and colonizers have blended |
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indo european languages |
predominant language of europe, latin america, north america, south america, and south pacific
worlds most spoken family language |
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celtic languages |
an endangered language.. branch of the indo european.. located in british isles |
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religion branch |
fundamental division within a religion |
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sect |
a group smaller than a denomination |
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universalizing religions |
3 largest: Christianity, Buddism, Islam
religion that appeals to people of many cultures regardless of where they live in the world
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ethnic religion |
largest ethnic religions: Hinduism and Judiasm
religion with principles based on physical characteristics of where its adherents are concentrated |
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religious hearths |
point of origin of a religion |
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nationalism |
the degree of loyalty that one has for a nationality |
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balkanization |
process by which a state breaks down ethnic conflict |
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race |
identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor |
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racism |
racial differences that produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
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white flight |
migration of white people out of neighborhoods that were expected to be filled with african americans |
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nationality |
the identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a country |
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ethnic cleansing |
process by which a more powerful ethnic group removes a less powerful one in oder to create their own nation |
