Human geography

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  1. 3. The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
  2. 7. Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
  3. 12. multiple gods
  4. 15. A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa
  5. 20. The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives
  6. 21. Region An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characters.
  7. 22. the widespread use of English in the french language
  8. 23. Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group
  9. 24. original place like the heart
  10. 25. the everyday speech of the people
  11. 26. factors, often positive, that tend to unify and bring together a population
  12. 27. the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law
  13. 28. factors that induce people to leave old residences
  14. 30. a state that contains a single nation that is not disputed by anyone inside or outside
  15. 32. The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
  16. 34. a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
  17. 35. a simplified language that is used by people who speak different languages for common communication; usually not the primary language of anyone using it
  18. 36. Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
  19. 37. factors that induce people to move to a new location
  20. 38. a collection of languages related to each other through a commmon ancestor long before recorded history
  21. 39. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
  22. 40. a collection of languages related to each other through a commmon ancestor long before recorded history
Down
  1. 1. British economist of late 1700's. considered the first to predict a population crisis
  2. 2. another term for ethnicity; a group's self-identification based on cultural, historical, physical, or other characteristics
  3. 4. a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom
  4. 5. Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries
  5. 6. Where natural birth rate declines to equal crude birth rate and the natural rate of population approaches 0
  6. 8. Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
  7. 9. a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
  8. 10. collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
  9. 11. A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family
  10. 13. A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
  11. 14. factors, often negative, that tend to pull apart and disperse a population
  12. 16. a repetitive act that a particular individual performs
  13. 17. The arrangement of something across Earth's surface.
  14. 18. one god
  15. 19. the number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compares to the number of people active in the labor force.
  16. 29. first one to observe that rapidly increasing population will cause overpopulation and not enough resources for all of the people
  17. 31. Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region
  18. 33. number of people who cat work