Chapter 4

Question 0

What is a group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture?

Answer 0

Society

Question 1

What is the total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group of peoples?

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

What is a specific group that shares a language, customs, and a common heritage

Answer 2

Ethnic group

Question 3

What is it called to take existing resources and technology and create something new?

Answer 3

Innovation

Question 4

What is the spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior?

Answer 4

Diffusion

Question 5

What is a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to many cultures?

Answer 5

Cultural hearth

Question 6

What is it called when a society changes because it accepts an innovation?

Answer 6

Acculturation

Question 7

What is a belief in a supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators and maintainers of the universe?

Answer 7

Religion

Question 8

What is he number of live births per thousand population known as?

Answer 8

Birthrate

Question 9

What is the average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime known as?

Answer 9

Fertility rate

Question 10

What is the number of deaths per thousand people known as?

Answer 10

Mortality rate

Question 11

What is the number of deaths among infants under age one per thousand live births known as?

Answer 11

Infant mortality rate

Question 12

What is the birthrate minus the mortality rate of a population known as?

Answer 12

Rate of natural increase

Question 13

What is a graphic device that shows sex and age distribution of a population?

Answer 13

Population pyramid

Question 14

What are some reasons for migrating?

Answer 14

Push-pull factors

Question 15

What is the average number of people who live in a measurable area?

Answer 15

Population density

Question 16

What is the number of organisms a piece of land can support?

Answer 16

Carrying capacity

Question 17

What is an independent unit that occupies a specific territory and has full control of its internal and external affairs?

Answer 17

State

Question 18

What is a group of people with a common culture living in a territory and having a strong sense of unity?

Answer 18

Nation

Question 19

What is it called when a nation and a state occupy the same territory?

Answer 19

Nation-state

Question 20

What is a political system where citizens hold power, either directly or through elected representatives?

Answer 20

Democracy

Question 21

What is a ruling family headed by a queen or king that holds political power?

Answer 21

Monarchy

Question 22

What is it called when an individual/group holds complete political power?

Answer 22

Dictatorship

Question 23

Nearly all political power and means of production are held by the government in the name of all the people

Answer 23

Communism

Question 24

Landlocked

Answer 24

A country surrounded by other land with no direct outlet to the sea

Question 25

Urban geography

Answer 25

The study of how people use space in cities

Question 26

Cities

Answer 26

Centers of business and culture

Question 27

Suburbs

Answer 27

Political units touching the borders of the central city.

Question 28

Metropolitan area

Answer 28

A city, it's suburbs, and exurbs

Question 29

Urbanization

Answer 29

The dramatic rise in the number of cities and the changes in lifestyle that result

Question 30

Central business district (CBD)

Answer 30

The core of a city based on commercial activity.

Question 31

Economy

Answer 31

The production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people

Question 32

Economic system

Answer 32

The way people produce and exchange goods and services

Question 33

What is it called when production of goods and services is determined by a central government, which owns the means of production?

Answer 33

Command economy

Question 34

What is the production of goods and services that is determined by the demand from consumers called?

Answer 34

Market economy

Question 35

What are materials on or in the earth that have economic value?

Answer 35

Natural resources

Question 36

What is the basic support systems needed to keep an economy going?

Answer 36

Infrastructure

Question 37

What is the average amount of money earned by each person in a political unit?

Answer 37

Per capita income

Question 38

What is the total value of all goods and services produced by a country over a year or some other specified period of time?

Answer 38

Gross National Product (GNP)

Question 39

What is the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time?

Answer 39

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)