Geography - Chapter 3 (test)

This is a group that shares a language, history, religion and some physical traits..

• dialect

• democracy

• ethnic group

• culture

A government in which power is held by the people is known as a...

• dictatorship

• civilization

• monarchy

• democracy

The process of spreading ideas, languages, or culture is known as ...

• dictatorship

• cultural diffusion

• urbanization

• civilization

A government led by a king or queen who inherit power by being born into the ruling family is a ...

• dictatorship

• democracy

• monarchy

• command economy

Highly developed cultures that started in river valleys found in present day Iraq, Egypt, India, and China...

• cultural diffusion

• dictatorship

• culture region

• civilization

A leader who rules by force is a ...

• monarch

• dictator

• globalization

• dialect

People who are forced to flee to another country to escape persecution, or natural disasters are called...

• famine

• birth rate

• refugees

• emigrate

The severe lack of food is called...

• birth rate

• death rate

• urbanization

• famine

The movement of people from farms and villages to cities is known as...

• emigrate

• urbanization

• culture

• civilization

Geographers figure out how crowded a country is by measuring the average number of people living in a square mile or kilometer...

• emigrate

• population density

• urbanization

• by counting