Human Geography Vocab

A Society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation

• Religion

• Acculturation

• Culture

• Infrastructure

Taking existing technology and resources and creating something new to meet a need.

• Innovation

• Landlocked

• Urban Geography

• Acculturation

Average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime

• Population Pyramid

• Infant Mortality Rate

• Fertility Rate

• Birth Rate

Number of deaths per thousand people

• Infant Mortality Rate

• Death Rate

• Push-pull Factors

• Fertility Rate

Group that shares a language, customs, and a common heritage

• Ethnic Group

• Society

• Culture

• City

Numer of deaths among infants under age one, per thousand live births

• Infant Mortality Rate

• Death Rate

• Baby Mortality Rate

• Child Mortality Rate

Rate at which population is growing by subtracting the mortality rate from the birth rate

• Fertility Rate

• Birth Rate

• Rate of Natural Increase

• Population increase

A graphic device that shows sex and age distribution of a population

• Population Pie Chart

• Population Bar Graph

• Population Pyramid

• Population Prism

Group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture.

• Society

• State

• Nation

• Culture

Individual or group holds complete political power

• Communism

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Monarchy