Cultural Geo Vocab. Quiz

a measure of quality of life based on the amounts and kinds of goods and services a person can buy

• standard of living

• developed country

• migration

a modern, industrialized country in which people are generally better educated and healthier and live longer than people in developing countries do

• sectors of the economy

• developed country

• culture

Primary - Extracts or harvest products from the earth

Secondary - Manufactures finished goods

Tertiary - The service industry

Quaternary - Consists of intellectual activities.

• demographics

• push/pull factors

• sectors of the economy

a factor that pushes people out of their native lands and pulls them toward a new place.

• push/pull factors

• migration

• literacy rate

the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

• culture

• literacy

• multicultural

the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

• demographics

• migration

• democracy

a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

• dictatorship

• literacy

• demographics

The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.

• globalization

• migration

• demographics

movement of people from rural areas to cities

• per capita

• urbanization

• society

the death rate during the first year of life

• per capita

• literacy rate

• infant mortality rate