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chapter vocab 5
vocabulary for chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is demography? | The statistical study of human populations |
| What is population density? | The average number of people living in a specific area |
| What is the number of births each year for every 1,000 people living in an area? | birth rate |
| What is the number of deaths each year for every 1,000 people living in an area? | death rate |
| What is the movement from one place to another? | migration |
| Who are the people who leave a country to live somewhere else? | emigrants |
| Who are the people who come to a new country? | immigrants |
| What are push factors? | the factors that cause people to leave a location |
| What are pull factors? | the factors that attracts people to a location |
| What are people who are forced to leave their homes and cannot return? | refugees |
| What is culture? | all the features of a people's way of life |
| What are culture traits? | The activities and behaviour people often take part in |
| What is a culture region? | An area in which people have many shared culture traits |
| What is an ethnic group? | a human population that shares a common culture or ancestry |
| What is Acculturation | when an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture |
| What is Assimilation | when an individual or group adopts all the traits of another culture |
| What happens when an innovation or idea spreads from one person or group to another and is adopted? | Diffusion |
| What is globalization? | The collaboration between countries |
| What is the adherence to the doctrines of a specific tradition? | Traditionalism |
| what is fundamentalism? | strict adherence to a set of ideas or specific principles |
| What is dialect? | Geographical or social variety of speech |
| What is lingua franca? | A language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a mother language |
| What is Animist religion? | A religion that believes there is no separation between the spiritual and human world, via natural world |
| What is a religion that consists of multiple gods | Polytheism |
| What is a universalizing religion? | a religion that attempts to operate on a global scale and appeal to all people |
| What is monotheism? | A religion that believes in one God or the oneness of a God |
| What is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service | A missionary |
| Where do Muslim people go to church? | A mosque |
| What is the Hajj? | The journey to Mecca Muslims must go on at least once in their lifetime. |
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