Unit 2: Human Geography Basics

Look at birth rates, death rates, distribution, and density of population

• population geography

• gross domestic product

• carrying capacity

• population density

Total value of goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time

• carrying capacity

• population density

• population geography

• gross domestic product

Shows how heavily populated an area is

• Carrying capacity

• population density

• population geography

• gross domestic product

The number of organisms a piece of land can support

• carrying capacity

• population density

• population geography

• gross domestic product

When a language is spread over a new area

• innovation

• diffuse

• acculturation

• language diffusion

When society changes to adapt to a new innovation

• diffusion

• acculturation

• language diffusion

The production and exchange of goods and services among a group of people

• Culture

• dialect

• ethnic group

• economy

The basic support systems needed to keep a country and economy going

• natural resources

• metropolitan area

• suburbian

• infrastructure

Large populations, center of business and culture

• metropolis

• cities

• state

• infrastate

In a command economy, who determines production?

• the producers

• the government

• the consumers

• the President