Ch. 4: Human and Political Geography

The difference between an area’s birthrate and its death rate.

• Natural increase

• Average difference

• Natural decrease

• Average decrease

A system in which private individuals have the right to own property and make a profit with limited government interference.

• Command economy

• Unitary system

• Mixed economy

• Free enterprise

The way of life of a group of people who share beliefs, customs, and material beliefs.

• Cultural boundary

• Cultural diffusion

• Culture

• Culture hearth

• Central place theory

A geographic border between two different cultures.

• Cultural diffusion

• Culture boundary

• Culture hearth

• Urbanization

• Population density

The spread of material and non-material characteristics from one culture to another.

• Cultural diffusion

• Cultural hearth

• Population pyramid

• Cultural urbanization

• Cultural boundary

The average number of people living in a specific geographic area.

• Population diffusion

• Natural increase

• Population pyramid

• Concentric population zone

• Population density

People who share ancestry, language, geographic customers, or place of origins.

• Language family

• Ethnic group

• Cultural group

• Metropolitan area

A region that includes a central city and its surrounding suburbs.

• Density area

• Urbanization

• Language area

• Metropolitan area

• Cultural boundary

Divides power between the national government and state or provincial governments.

• Mixed system

• Federal system

• Command system

• Communism

• Socialism

An illustration that depicts the distribution of a population by age and gender.

• Population density

• Cultural diffusion

• Population pyramid

• Population transition model

• Concentric zone model