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Unit 2 REVIEW Flashcards

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Subsistence Agriculture

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Producing enough for yourself and your family to survive, can’t provide enough to sell or give to others.

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Who’s is it important to understand Culture?

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It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. So when you are working with people and building relationships with them, it helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures.

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Simulation

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When you adjust to the culture you moved into

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Acculturation

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When a culture decides to adopt something from another culture.

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What makes up a culture?

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Food, family, religion, life

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Innovation

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Take already made technology and improve it

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Harth Civilization

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Where one is first started

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Where did civilization start? Why?

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Near the river, for farming, transportation, food, water

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What are countries with strong economics going to have?

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Strong infrastructure—well-developed, well educated,plenty of natural resources, per capital income is high,

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Traditional

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Were your bartering, most are farmers, barley any money involved

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Communist

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Government controls everything and production, they decide what is produced, no supply and demand

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Free enterprise

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Same as market, supply and demand is what determines what is produced

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Socialist, Mixd

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Command and market, owned by the boss or by workers.. example:School

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Elements of Socialism

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Community, Fraternity, Social Equality, Need

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Define and give examples of infrastructure

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Basic physical system of business or nation.

Transportation, communication, water, electric system. Something we need for society and economy to function

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Five main religions

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Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,

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Book each religion has (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism)

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Christianity- Bible
Judaism- Hebrew Bible 
Buddhism- No book, Dhammapada text
Hinduism- No book, Scared texts 
Islam- Quran
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Each religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism) nickname

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Christianity- Christians 
Judaism- Jews
Islam- Muslims 
Buddhism- Buddhist 
Hinduism- Hindus
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Each religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism) worship

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Christianity- Church
Judaism- Synagogue 
Islam- Mosque
Buddhism- Temple
Hinduism- Temple
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Each religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism) origin

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Christianity- Rome, Israel 
Judaism- Egypt, Israel 
Islam- Arabia
Buddhism- India 
Hinduism- India
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Humane Environment Interaction example

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Anything we developed in order to survive in an area, interacting and controlling the culture environment.

Allow us to survive to that area.

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Population pyramid

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Shows gender distribution , you can see if a disease out broke, or a war.

You can see if population is high or low

War, after war is a baby boom

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Diffusion

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Spreading of ideas or people, or stuff

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Push and pull factors , LEARN

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Immigration

Push factor: encourages you to leave a country
Pull factor: encourages you into a country

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Levels of economics activity

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Primary: gathering materials
Secondary: Use what is gathered to make something
Tertiary: services industry, ex: teachers, doctors, lawyers, waiters,
Courtanary: Higher level, running business and making money, ex: CEO

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What ecomnic level should the country be on to show it’s developed?

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Tertiary

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Developed countries have what?

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Free enterprise , market economy.. Able to buy and sell things as you wish for free

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Population is growing because

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Birth rate is higher than death rate

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How do democracy and economy tie in together?

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Democracy, you chose who’s in the government

Free market, you choose what’s in the economy

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Market economics and Communist economy?

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Market economy: see a lot of democratic system of government

Communist: you see a government that controls

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Why do people choose to live in suburbs rather than central city

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Less crime

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Where do most people geographically live? Why?

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Fertile planes, close to rivers, valleys, easy to build roads and connect everything.

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Democracy

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Were people vote, America

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Dictatorship

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One person in control

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Theocracy

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Political and also religious leader, leading country under religious law

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Totalitarian

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Goverment has total control over everything happening in your lives

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People who have the most power in a government

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Democracy

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When the government has control the people have..

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No freedom

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Which religions are monotheistic? What is it?

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Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Believe in one god

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Which religion believe In recreation?

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Hinduism

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Which religion believe In Nirvana?

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Buddhism

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Why do people move into urban areas

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Looking for better jobs

43
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Inexhaustible resources?
Renewable?
Non renewable?
List Examples

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Inexhaustible resources- Never run out of (sun, wind, rain)
Renewable- take from environment, but will renew itself, (trees, animals, grass)
Non renewable- can’t get again, (fossil fuel)

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Dielect

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Certain way of saying things (pop instead of coke)

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Natural boundaries

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Squiggly Lines, River or forest is the boundary

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Artificial boundary

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Straight lines, using Latitude and Longitude to create borders

47
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Population pyramid: wide at the bottom narrow at the top means…

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Population is growing

48
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Population pyramid: narrow at bottom and wide at top

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More adults, population is decreasing

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