Cultral Geography: Chapter 5 BJU
Population Density
Average number of people living on each square mile of land
Great Commission
Christ's command that Christians spread the gospel throughout the world
Cults of personality
Countries with dictatorial governmentsthat force their people to revere and worship their supreme dictator
Singapore
Country that has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world
Traditions
Customs or usages that society passes from one generation to the next
Jucat
Describes North Korea's forced reverence of its dictator
Rate of Natural Increase
Describes the result of subtracting a state's crude death rate from its crude birth rate
Extended family
Eastern cultures tends to glorify the _________ _________
Geometric boundaries
Follows the lines of longitude and latitude
Instituition
Formal organizationsby which society transmits traditions
Society
Geography include the study of ______ which is relationships among human beings
Language families
Groups of languages that share many common characteristics
Arable lands
Land that can be cultivated for the growth of crops
Republic
Led by an elected leader
Religion
Means a person's set of beliefs about his purpose in life, which influences everything he does and how he expresses the culture
Totalitarian Government
Most extreme form of authoratarian government
Natural Boundaries
Mountain ranges and rivers are examples of geographic features that often form these
Censuses
Official government counts the entire population within a state ot nation's boundaries
Nuclear family
Parents and their children
Extended family
Parents and their children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins
Thomas Malthus
Proposed this in 1798 the erroneous theory that the land could not continue to supply sufficient food for the world's growing population
Democracy
Rule by people
Dictatorship
Rule by the aurhority of the military
Political, Natural, Geometric
Three types of boundaries discussed in chapter 5
Foreign-aid, Foreign-trade, Threats of war
Three ways in which one state can influence its neighboring states
Urban and rural
Two categories that all populated areas are classified as
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) & United Nations (UN)
Two significant international organizationsthat were created in the 1940s
North America
U.S. and Canada are sub regions of this continent
Nuclear family
Western cultures tend to glorfiy the _________ _________
Empire
When one nation conquers another nation beyond its borders this is created
Civil war
When people within a state's borders are fighting
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam
World's three largest organization religions today
Dialect
A distinct speech pattern within a language family
Culture Region
A human society that shares the same basic culture
nation
A large group of people with a common history and language who have developed a strong sense of identity
Absolute Monarch
A ruler receives authority from birth and rules as he pleases
Anarchy
A society that has no government and in which every person does what he or she pleases
Culture
A society's total way of life
Foreign policy
A state's strategy or set of guiding principles for dealing with other states
Soverignity
Term that means a state's unlimited authority to run affairs within its own borders
Essay: Explain the proper dutiesnof legitimate government
The Bible defines rhe duties of the government. Its basic responsibilityis to perspreserve order and protect its citizens from violence by promoting good and punishing evil. To fulfill these obligations, governmentsprovide justice and defense.
Family
The entity that is the foundation of society
Mandarin Chinese
The language with the most speakers today
Indo European
The most prominent of the ten major language families
Life expectancy
The number of years a person can expect to live
Vital statistics
The official records of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths
Constitutional Monarchy
The power of the monarch is limited by law
Language
The primary means of transmitting a culture is __________
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The world is divided into ___ main culture regions