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