World Geography Mid-term Vocab ch 1-4

a country's freedom from outside control

• urbanization

• diffusion

• sovereignty

• loyalty

growth of city populations

• soveriegnty

• cultural hearth

• population density

• urbanization

process by which cultural traits move from one culture to another

• diffusion

• cultural divergence

• cultural convergence

• cultural hearth

area where cultural ideas begin and from which they spread

• cultural divergence

• cultural hearth

• cultural convergence

• immigrant

average number of people in a square mile or a square kilometer

• birthrate

• death rate

• population density

• diffusion

political system in which power is shared by the national government and smaller political units

• federation

• confederation

• democracy

• authoritarian

type of government in which the leaders hold almost all of the political power

• authoritarian

• federation

• confederation

• democracy

type of government in which the people choose their leaders and determine government policy

• authoritarian

• federation

• democracy

• confederation

person who moves into a country

• immigrant

• emmigrant

• homeless

• neighbor

number of live births each year per 1,000 people

• population density

• birthrate

• death rate

• population growth