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Vocab 2-1
World Geography
Term | Definition |
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migration | the movement of people within a country or region |
immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
emigration | the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad |
pull factor | a factor that draws or attracts people to another location |
population distribution | means the pattern of where people live |
birth rate | the number of live births per total population; often expressed per thousand population |
death rate | the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year. |
demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations |
infant mortality rate | the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age. |
life expectancy | the average period that a person may expect to live |
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 land they occupy |
natural increase | the difference between the numbers of births and deaths in a population |
globalization | the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. |
literacy rate | the percentage of people who are able to read and write |
census | an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals. |
population pyramid | a graphic device that shows gender and age distribution of a population |
acculturation | the cultural change that occurs when individuals in a society accept or adopt an innovation |
culture | the total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed down by members of a group |
culture hearth | the heartland or place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures |
culture landscape | a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior |
diffusion | the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behaviors to different societies |
spatial diffusion | covers all processes that contribute to moves, to migration inside geographical space, and to backlash effects generated in this space by those moves |
hierarchical diffusion | A form of expansion diffusion in which an innovation gnc(or other phenomenon) spreads over space from large places to progressively smaller ones. |
contagious diffusion | A form of expansion diffusion in which an innovation (or other phenomenon) spreads across contiguous space after direct contact between the innovator(s) and potential adapters of an innovation (or other phenomenon). |
stimulus diffusion | diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form |