Human Systems Vocab

Question 0

IFR ( Infant Mortality Rate )

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an estimate of the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an indicator to measure the health and well-being of a nation, because factors affecting the health of entire populations can also impact the mortality rate of infants.

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TFR ( Total Fertility Rate )

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represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age

Question 2

Push and Pull Factors

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The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.

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Population Density

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the number of individuals occupying an area in relation to the size of that area.

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Population distribution

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the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area; also, how the population of an area is arranged according to variables such as age, race, or sex

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CMR ( Child Mortality Rate )

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refers to the death of infants and children under the age of five.

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Life Expectancy

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the average period that a person may expect to live.

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Literacy Rate

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The ability to read and write at a specified age

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Demographic Transition Model

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refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

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Population Pyramid

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a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.

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Urban sprawl

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the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas.

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Suburbs

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an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.

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Suburbanization

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the growth of areas on the fringes of cities. It is one of the many causes of the increase in urban sprawl.

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Urbanization

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the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas

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Culture

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The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.

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Cultural hearth

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any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication of plants and animals.

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Cultural diffusion

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the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.

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Expansion

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the action of becoming larger or more extensive.

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Acculturation

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a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group.

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Enculturation

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the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group by a person, another culture, etc.

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Dialect

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a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

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Ethnic group

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a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

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Monotheism

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the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

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Polytheism

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the belief in or worship of more than one god.

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Universalizing Religion

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A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.

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Ethnic Religion

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A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.