1&2 HGS Elements of Culture/Population Geography

____?____, a group that shares a language, customs, and common heritage.

• Culture

• Societies

• Ethnic Group

• Innovation

What would be a PUSH FACTOR?

• Access to quality education
• Economic hardship, political instability, or natural disasters.
• Job opportunities in a stable economy
• Cultural enrichment and diversity

What is Diffusion?

• the control over ideas, inventions, patterns of behavior. Television and the Internet are major diffusers.

• the limitations of ideas, inventions, patterns of behavior. Television and the Internet are major diffusers.

• the removal of ideas, inventions, patterns of behavior. Television and the Internet are major diffusers.

• the spread of ideas, inventions, patterns of behavior. Television and the Internet are major diffusers.

Population density

• is the average number of animals who live in a measurable area.

• is the average number of cities who live in a measurable area.

• is the average number of people who live in a measurable area.

• is the average number of only women who live in a measurable area.

What is Migration?

• Migration is the movement of people within a country or region.

• Migration refers to the seasonal change in weather.
• Migration is the process of building new homes.
• Migration is the act of staying in one place permanently.

Push Factors

• are things that cause people to stay their homeland.

• are things that cause people to buy new homes their homeland.

• are things that cause people to invest their homeland.

• are things that cause people to leave their homeland.

What are the Six Elements of Culture?

• Language, Religion, Music, Ideas, Food, Clothing

• Nature, Climate, Transportation, Communication
• Sports, Fashion, Cuisine, Education
• Tradition, Geography, Technology, History

Habitable Lands

• Three-fourths or 3/4th of the world’s population live in the Northern hemisphere

• Two-thirds or 2/3rd of the world’s population live in the Northern hemisphere

• Two-thirds or 2/3rd of the world’s population live in the Southern hemisphere

• One-half or 1/2 of the world’s population live in the Northern hemisphere

In the definition in the word Diffusion, what is the KEY words found in that definition?

• sending

• spread

• spitting

• smelling

Push and Pull factors have a strong influance on migration. Consider the border region of El Paso, Texas (U.S.) and Juarez, Mexico. Why might people from both sides want to move from one location to the other? Explain your answer.

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