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KHansen-Chap-5-vocab
World Geography Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Demography? | The study of human populations, and how they change. |
| What is monotheism? | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. |
| What is universalizing religions? | Making religions available all across the world |
| What is polytheism? | the belief that there are many gods |
| What is hajj? | The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, expected once of all Muslims. |
| What is mosques? | A Muslim place of worship. |
| What is missionaries? | A person sent on a religious mission |
| What is birthrate? | the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year. |
| What is population density? | a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. |
| What is pull factors? | Something that attracts people to come to a country |
| What is push factors? | A cause that has the effect of making people leave a location. |
| What is immigrants? | People who come to a new country to live. |
| What is acculturation? | When an individual or group adopts some of the traits of another culture. |
| What is ethnic groups? | A human population that shares a common culture or ancestry. |
| What is culture region? | An area in which people have many shared culture traits. |
| What is animist religions? | A religion that beleives there is no separation between the spiritual and physical world |
| What is Ethnic religions? | An ethnic religion is a religion that appeals to a specific group of people in a specific area of the world. |
| What is Lingua Franca? | A language of trade and communication. |
| What is Dialect? | A regional variety of language. |
| What is fundamentalism? | Describes any movement in which people believe in strictly following certain established princoples or teachings. |
| What is traditionalism? | Following longtime practices and opposing many modern technologies and ideas. |
| What is globalization? | The process in which connections around the world increase anc culture become more alike. |
| What is diffusion? | When an idea or innovation spreads from one person or group to another and is adopted. |
| What is innovation? | New ideas that a culture accepts |
| What is assimilation? | Absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture |
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