AP Human Final 1

studied byStudied by 9 people
5.0(1)
get a hint
hint

epidemic

1 / 51

encourage image

There's no tags or description

Looks like no one added any tags here yet for you.

52 Terms

1

epidemic

regional outbreak of a disease

New cards
2

brain drain

educated people who leave the country for opportunities.

New cards
3

counterurbanization

people leaving an urban area for small rural towns

New cards
4

asylum seeker

someone who migrated to another country in hope of being seen as an asylum seeker

New cards
5

habit

a repetitive cat that a particular individual performs

New cards
6

custom

a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group

New cards
7

folk culture

traditionally practiced primarily by small homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas. origin is anonymous, diffusion is slow, distribution is spatial.

New cards
8

popular culture

found in large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite other differences. There is a specific point of origin and distribution is rapid because someone wants to make money off of it.

New cards
9

refugee

someone forced to migrate to another country

New cards
10

lingua franca

a language of international communication. Ex: English, Hindi

New cards
11

official language

used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other businesses

New cards
12

working language

designation by an international organization or corporation as its primary means of communication for daily conversation

New cards
13

creole language

language that results from mixing of a colonizers language with an indigenous language of the people being dominated

New cards
14

isogloss

a boundary between two languages

New cards
15

scale

relationship between portion of Earth being studied and earth as a whole

New cards
16

functional region

an area around a node where characteristics diminishes in importances away from the node

New cards
17

formal region

an area where everyone agrees with one another that share common characteristics

New cards
18

vernacular region

an area that believe is a part of their cultural identity

New cards
19

globalization

force or process that involves the entire process and results in making something world wide.

New cards
20

relocation diffusion

the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

New cards
21

hierarchical diffusion

the spread of any idea from a person with power or nodes of authority or power to another person or place.

New cards
22

contagious diffusion

the rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

New cards
23

uneven development

increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core. Results from globalization of the economy

New cards
24

ravenstein

most immigrants only move short distance

New cards
25

crude birth rate

the number of live births a year divided by a 1000 people

New cards
26

infant mortality rate

is the annual number of infant deaths for every 1000 live births.

New cards
27

ecumene

a permanently inhabited portion on earth distinguished or temporarily inhabited area.

New cards
28

medical revolution

medical technology invented in europe and north america that diffused to Latin America, Asia and Africa.

New cards
29

census

a periodic and official of a country’s population

New cards
30

possibilism

viewing the environment as providing that limits the possibilities of human choice.

New cards
31

renewable resource

a resource that can be easily remade without any effort.

New cards
32

non-renewable resource

cannot be easily remade , requires effort to be remade, valuable

New cards
33

doubling time

the number of years to double a population, assuming a constant rate of NIR

New cards
34

life expectancy

the number of years a person is expected to live

New cards
35

epidemiology

the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why

New cards
36

agricultural density

the numbers of farmers available compared to arable land.

New cards
37

pronatalist

the government encourages people to have more kids

New cards
38

antinatalist

government tells people to slow down people from having kids

New cards
39

interregional migration

the movement from one region to another

New cards
40

intraregional migration

moving from one region to another region in the same place

New cards
41

circular

short term, repetitive that happens on a daily basis

New cards
42

guest worker

person with a temporary permission to work in another country

New cards
43

forced migration

the movement that refugees and immigrants take between home country and other country

New cards
44

hearth

the region from where innovative ideas originate

New cards
45

taboo

something that a religious custom is prohibiting of a particular practice

New cards
46

cultural imperialism

the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant various aspects of its own culture

New cards
47

material culture

the physical aspects of a society, the objects made or modified by a human

New cards
48

indigenous architecture

traditional peoples buildings practices and styles which are closely tied to their culture environment and way of life.

New cards
49

folklore

the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth

New cards
50

thomas malthus

his theory that population will exceed the food supply

New cards
51

industrial revolution

the transition from creating goods by hand using machines

New cards
52

transnational corporation

enterprise that is involved with the international production of goods or services

New cards

Explore top notes

note Note
studied byStudied by 11 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 1 person
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 34 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 14 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 9 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 84 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(6)
note Note
studied byStudied by 6 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
note Note
studied byStudied by 51405 people
Updated ... ago
4.9 Stars(281)

Explore top flashcards

flashcards Flashcard30 terms
studied byStudied by 142 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(2)
flashcards Flashcard53 terms
studied byStudied by 25 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
flashcards Flashcard39 terms
studied byStudied by 3 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
flashcards Flashcard98 terms
studied byStudied by 1 person
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
flashcards Flashcard38 terms
studied byStudied by 9 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
flashcards Flashcard68 terms
studied byStudied by 23 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)
flashcards Flashcard37 terms
studied byStudied by 91 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(2)
flashcards Flashcard52 terms
studied byStudied by 14 people
Updated ... ago
5.0 Stars(1)