Human Geography

a way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items

• Cultural Hearth

• Culture

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Givings

a diagram that shows the distribution of a population by age and gender

• Population Chart

• Death Rate

• Birth Rate

• Population Pyramid

the average number of people living on a square mile or square kilometer of land

• Population Pyramid

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Population Density

What is cultural diffusion?

• the spread of culture traits, material and non-material, from one culture to another

• The combining of all cultures into one

• The stresses placed on cultures when it comes to talking about religion

• The Alabama Crimson Tide

system of government in which a small group holds power

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Autocracy

• Theocracy

a form of autocracy with a hereditary king or queen exercising supreme power

• Autocracy

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Oligrachy

a system in which tradition and custom control all economic activity; exists in only a few parts of the world today

• Traditional

• Market

• Mixed

• Command

an economic system based on free enterprise, in which businesses are privately owned and production and prices are determined by supply and demand

• Taradtional

• Market

• Mixed

• Command

a system of resource management in which decisions about production and distribution of goods and services are made by a central authority

• Traditional

• Market

• Mixed

• Command

the movement of people from place to place

• Migration

• Settlement

• Homesteading

• Staying in one place