Human Geo Unit 3 vocab Flashcards
qualitiative data
descriptive data
quantitative data
number data
world city/global city
important centers of finance/banking/cluture adn commerce
consumer
services, retail
business
facilitate other busineses activities
public
security and protection
threshold
number of people needed to support a business
range
the distance the customer is willing to go for a service
terroir
contribution of a places’ physical features to the way their food tastes
taboo
restriction of behavior by religious law/social custom
malware/malicious software
hostole software made to cause intentional harm
ransomware/cryptioviral extortion
malware encrypt files until ransom payed to decrytp them
cyber espionage
unauthroized use of virus to observe/destroy data in government agency’s compuer system
fake news
false, newws
alternative fact/alt fact
statement false
trolling
post on purpose extraneous/off topicd messages to provoke fights
cultural homogenizatoin
loss of localized folk culture due to spread of pop culture convergence of cultural preterence
franchise
agreeemnet between comapny and businesspeople to market the company’s products in a local area
cultural landscape
natural landscape that has been modified by humans to reflect their cultural beliefs and values
ethnocentrism
judging other cultures based on one’s own culture, belief that ones own culture is better
sequent occupancy
societies adn culture groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place
cultural relativism
unbiased way of viewing another culture
ethnicity
sense of belonging/identity within a group of peole by common ansestory or culture
language
system of communicting with speech, moveent, sound or symbol taht a group of people can understand
centripetal force
force unifiy people
centrifugal force
force splitting people
literary tradition
written and spoken language
vulgar latin
variations in latin. regional differnces in latin, and dialect of latin when conquered. Also integrated local words
lingua franca
a language of international communication, like englishl
logograms
symbols represent words/part of words. like in chinese
official language
used by governemtn for government stuff
working language
used by people for daily chitchat
pidgin language
to communicate with speakers of another language, both groups construct a pidgin language by learning a few grammar rules and lingua franca adn mix with their own language
dialect
regional variation in a langages. pronounciation, spelling, and vocab are charcteristst
subdialect
subdivision of a dialect
standard dialect
dialect msot acceptable for governemtn, well estalblished, and widely recognized for mass communication
recieved pronounciation (RP)
accent used all over the country
isogloss
geographic boundary of a certian word/linguistic feature
creole/creolized language
mix of colonizer and indigenous language. indigenous people geing colonized
mutual intelligibility
people speaking in 2 ways able to undertanad each other without prior familiarability or special effort
endangered languages
children not using
isolated language
unrelated and not attached to any language or language family
extince language
language no longer in use
universalizing religions
attempt to be global
ethnic religions
appeal to 1 ethnic culture group
congregation
local assembly of people for a common religious worship
denomination
unites same-religion congretations into 1 single legal body
branch
large and fundimental division in a religion
atheism
belief that god does not exist
agnosticism
belief that god cannot be proven
syncretic
combine several differnt traditions
animism
objects having a soul. elements of the natural world (plants, stones, thunderstorms etc.) all have spirits and consious life
monotheism
belief that there is only one god
polytheism
worship of a collection of gods
missionaries
people who help transmit religion through relocation diffusion
ghettos
city neighborhods set up by law to be used by jews
utopian settlement
community made to reflect ideals of a particular group
autonomous religions
self sufficient, little interation between communites
hierarchical religion
well defined power structure
cosmogony
religious belief concernd with the origin of the world
solar calendar
month depending on sunna
lunar calendar
month corrispond wiht moon cycle
lunisolar calendar
lunar months aligned with solar uear through peirodic adjustment
solstice
when sun reaches its highest/lowest point of the year
fundamentalism
literal interpretiation, strict/intense adherence to what religion fundamentalists define as basic principal of religion
caste
system indicating class/hierarchy order when a hindu is born
pagoda
a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.
