Chapter 4 -The Human World
Chapter Essential Questions
How does the relationship between people and their natural surroundings influence the way people live?
How are physical and political geography related to the various places and cultures on earth?
Chapter Concept/Skill
Describe the process and patterns of creation for cities.
Describe how the religions of the world can be an indicator of cultural diffusion
Understand that humans and the natural environment has an effect on each other.
Recognize that throughout history people have exchanged ideas and goods.
Understand that geographers divide the world into culture regions.
Academic Language- Basic
Migration
Language
Family
Ethnic group
Natural resource
pollution
Academic Language- Complex
Birth rate
Death rate
Natural increase
Demographic transition
Doubling time
Population distribution
Population density
Culture
Culture region
Cultural diffusion
Culture hearth
Unitary system
Federal system
Autocracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Traditional economy
Market economy
Mixed economy
Command economy
Industrialization
Developed country
Newly industrialized country
Developing country
Free trade