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| Roles specifically assigned to men or women in a culture. |
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| Referring to a city setting; usually has high population density and diverse cultures. |
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| Mountain range that runs through western Russia and is considered to be the dividing line between Europe and Asia. |
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| Containing a mix of people's and cultures. |
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| Divisions of a cultures people based on wealth , power and prestige. |
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| Refers to how easy or hard it is to change one's social within a culture. |
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| Region where people share common cultural characteristics. |
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| Area defined by one function that may cross political boundaries. Often they are organized around a focal point such as a city. |
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| Based on people's attitudes and emotions about a place. Ex: the "Deep South" |
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| Region that lies at the crossroads of Europe ,Asia and Africa. |
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| Canal that connects the Mediterranean with the red sea and shortens the traveling distance between Europe and asia. |
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| Applies to all of the America's south of the US. It has 4 main areas , Mexico ,Central America , the west indies(caribbean ) and south America. |
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| An important human made feature in this region that goes through the isthmus of panama joining the atlantic and pacific oceans and serves as a major route for international trade. |
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| The areas of Africa south of the Sahara desert. Many different ethnic groups with animistic Christian and Islamic religions ; many affected by the slave trade and colonization. |
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| The pacific islands of new Zealand ( colonized by the British ) and other smaller nations like Tahiti that are spread across the South Pacific. |
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| The movement of greater numbers of people into cities. |
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| Human factors affect where people settle ,like having a capital city at a central location. Location along transportation routes. New technology can override physical barriers and natural resources can attract settlers to an otherwise unfavorable areas. |
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| How many people live in a given area |
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| A visual that compares the number of males and females in a society and it includes the average of ages of its members. Each group will be represented by a different bar. |
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| A slum settlement where poor people live in dwellings made from scrap materials. Such as plywood corrugated metal and plastic sheets. |
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| The major reasons for migrations that either push people out of their old location while pull factors lure migrants to a new location. |
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| Concern how people organize into groups such as religious groups. |
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| When they need to migrate due to being persecuted for their ethnicity. |
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| When people have to leave due to their religous beliefs |
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| Migrations due to environmental factors like a drought or a flood. |
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| When a migration is forced such as a the Atlantic slave trade. This has accompanied war and the persecution of people thru out history. |
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| Natural features that were once a Migration to humans |
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| a natural feature where people used to be able to walk from one land mass to another, like across the Bering Strait now that used to be a land bridge from Asia to North America ( Alaska area) |
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| how something diffuses or spreads |
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| -(Cultural Diffusion) when ideas, products, and even cultural traits can spread from one culture to another. |
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| when new plants, animals, ideas and even diseases were exchanged between the peoples of the Americas and those of Europe. |
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| when different cultures exchange ideas and become more similar. |
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| when different cultural influences cause an area to divide into separate parts. |
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| an epidemic over a wide geographic area. |
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these societies prefer to do things much as their ancestors have done
88. Cultural Diffusion-the spread of ideas, good, technologies, and cultural traits from one society to another. |
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| when a dominant group tries to completely eliminate a religious or ethnic group -The mass murder of a people. |
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| the use of threats of terror against innocent civilians to gain attention and achieve a group’s aims |
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| the use of materials, tools, and skills to meet human needs. |
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| the development of new technologies |
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| a spatial information system that merge information from satellites and land base sources. |
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| the removal of salt from saltwater |
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| kingdom in which the ruler’s powers are limited by a constitution |
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| a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly |
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| government where the people rule through elected representatives |
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| government in which an individual or groups holds complete power |
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| ability of a person or group to determine the policy of a government to serve their individual or group interest |
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| a geographic area that is run by a specific government and has its own laws; there are various levels of political regions, such as: a country, a state, districts within a state, and cities within a state |
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| a unit of territory defined by boundaries set by political authority and usually having a separate political organization |
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| lines that separate one country, state, province, etc., from another |
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| the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed and from which all specific political powers are derived; the intentional independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign interference |
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| a branch of political science concerned with relations between nations and primarily with foreign policies |
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| an equilibrium of power sufficient to discourage or prevent one nation or party from imposing its will on or interfering with the interests of another |
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| an international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation |
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| an economic and political association of European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs |
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| a process of intelligence, design, and choice activities that result in the selection of a particular course of action |
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