Chapter 5 The Worlds People Flashcards
Diffusion
The movement of ideas and behaviors from one caltural region to another
Ethnic group / ethinisity
Group of people who share learned beliefs and practices
Race
Inhareted physical or biological features or trates
Culture
Learned systems of shared beliefs and ways of doing things in their daily lives
Economics
The social science that analysis of the production distribution and consumption of goods and services
Market economy
Make their own decisions on what to make what to buy and what to cell
Communism
Government controls factors of production governed by political economic people
Domesticated
Gradually changing wild plants and animals to b dependent on humans
Primary industries
They directly involve natural resorsorses or raw material
Example- farming and cutting trees
Secondary industry’s
Change the raw material into final product
Example turning trees into lumber
Tertiary industry’s
Handle goods that are ready 2 b sold
Example trucks trains or planes that provide transportation
Quaternary industry’s
They have specialized skills they work with information instead of goods
Example researchers managers and administrators
Economy
Consists of the economic systems of country
Carrying capacity
The maximum number of species supported by and area
Free enterprise
An economic system of which People not government decide on what to make sell or buy
Command economy
Government makes its own industries and economic decisions
Developed country
They are wealthier they have better health care systems and good education example United States
Developing country
Different stages moving towards development porter earn low wages work with a lot of farming
Gross domestic product
Includes goods produced and divided by the country’s population
Gross national product
Measuring a company’s economy values of all goods and servis a country produce in a year
Acculturation
Borrowing aspects from another caltural that has long term affect on the society
Symbol
A sign that stands for something
scarcity
When demand is higher than supply
Democracy
Voters elect and rule by democracy
Substaince agracalture
Farmers plant enough for them and their family
Commercial agurcalture
Farmers that can produce food for everyone usally each farm only grows one product
What problems associated with high population growth
The world might reach its max capacity run out of resorses and health cares expected go up
What are characteristics of a communist government
The government controls the economy
Why did the worlds population growth change
The health care an doctors are better so baby’s can be born and live longer old people can live longer because of meds. Having kids is easier
Is population rate growing falling or staying the same in developing country’s
Growing rapidly
How are symbols part of a country
It stand for the whole country
It’s unique
How do geographer Analize the production of a county
The birth rate minus the number of deaths
