Lesson 1: Elements of Culture Flashcards
The set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people have in common
Culture
Things like language, religion, music, clothing, food, skin color, etc.
Things that culture includes
An activity or behavior in which people take part
Cultural trait
How do cultures develop?
They are passed down from generations/traditions and people learn in new culture traits
What are culture groups based on?
Age, language, and religion
What is new ideas, motion pictures as societies come in contact with each other.
Culture changes
How does culture spread?
When people move from one place to another, trades, and conflicts
What are organized patterns of belief and behavior that focus on meeting these needs?
Social institutions
What are some examples of social institutions?
Family, education, religion, government, and economy
All people use __________ to shape and control their environments, and they use __________ to try and understand it.
technology
science
What is the belief systems, political decisions, ecomic factors, government descisions, and environmental factors
Technology influences
What are some impacts of technology?
Vaccines, inventions, etc.
What is a total number of people in a given area?
Population
Why do geographers study human population?
to watch patterns emerge over time
What do geographers study when they look at population?
How many people live in an area, why people live where they do, and how population change (s) (ed)
What is the mesaure of the number of people living in an area?
Population density
How does population density affect life in a particular place?
Crowded areas or places with high population, the land is pricy, crowded/busy roads, building are taller (opposite for low density) taxes
What aspects of life does population affect?
Amount of food, jobs/occupations, housing, whether schools and hospitals are open/closed
What are the three key statistics that are important to studying a country’s population over time?
Birth rate, death rate, and rate of natural increase
What is a common cause of population change?
Migration
What is the process of moving from one place to live to another?
migration
What are some reasons why people migrate?
Weather, jobs, housing, traffic, politics, segregation
The population growth in some of the more industrialized nations has begun to _____________
slow down
Do less industrialized countries have growth rates?
Not very often
What is any place where a community is established called?
Settlement
What are the four reasons to settle someplace?
Natural resources, water (fresh), rich soil for farming, and trade routes
What is a path used by traders for buying and selling goods called/
Trade route
What is the city and its surrounding areas called?
urban
What do you call the outside of the cities or the countryside?
rural
What is the placement of people and objects on Earth and the space between them called?
Spacial placement
Which kind of settlement is when people are grouped along the length of a resource such as a river?
Linear settlement
What kind of settlement is grouped at the center of a resource?
cluster settlement
What kind of settlement is purposely laid out with a network of transportation routes?
Grid settlement
What is the number one way that we interact with the world?
Farming
What is when farmers carve steps into the hillside to create flat land for growing crops?
Terraced farming
What is the cutting down of trees and plants with knives and machetes, then burning the fallen trees to clear land for farming?
Slash-and-burn agriculture
What uses the sprinkler system in the center of a large, circular field and the long arms of the sprinkles water the crops?
Center pivot irrigation
Why do cultural universals exist?
To help societies meet basic needs
A new idea or way of doing something
innovation
What is a society that includes a variety of cultures in the same area?
Multicultural society
Give an example of creative expression
Performing arts, visual arts, literary arts
What is anyplace where a community is established called?
Settlement
What is a city, its suburbs, and the surrounding area from a large urban area called?
Metropolitan area
This refers to the substantial exchange of goods between cities, states, or countries?
commerce
