Unit 2: Human Geography
Review
Unit 2: Human
GeographyReview
The study of the world, its people, communities and
cultures...
The total knowledge, shared attitudes, and behaviors of the members of a specific
group...
What is innovation?
What and Where are Cultural Hearths?
Site from where basic ideas and innovations diffuse to other cultures.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The spread of ideas, inventions or behaviors to different societies.
Discuss Acculturation...
What is Assimilation?
Describe the population pyramid shape of a least developed country and its defining characteristics.
High birth rate, high mortality rate, rapidly increasing population, greater need for schools
Describe the population pyramid shape of a more developed nation and its defining characteristics.
Population is not growing, greater need for retirement homes
Push or Pull?
Collapsed economy
Push or Pull?
High tech jobs in Austin, TX
Push or Pull?
Religious Freedom
Push or Pull?
Natural Disaster
Which employment sector?
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Which employment sector?
Which employment sector?
Which employment sector?
Which employment sector?
Which employment sector?
Which employment sector?
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developedsubsistence farming
Was mostly poor but is now developing a “middle class”...
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
A large “middle class”...
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
Shifting from Rural to Urban...
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
Life expectancy of 83...
Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
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Less Developed, Newly Industrialized, or Less
Developed
High infant mortality rate...
Nation-State or Stateless
Nation?
Nation-State or Stateless
Nation?
Rule by all?
Rule by a small group?
Rule by one?
Political System?
Political System?
Political System?
Political System?