Chapter 4
Unit 2 What have we covered so far? ABCs of culture! You need to keep that ABCs of culture worksheet! Please get that out now
Important Vocabulary on Culture Innovation: taking existing technology and resources and creating something new to meet a need Examples: Diffusion: Spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior Examples? Acculturation: a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation. Examples?
Innovation:
Diffusion & Acculturation
US Acculturation
Population Geography 1804: 1 billion 1927: 2 billion 1960: 3 billion 1974: 4 billion 1987: 5 billion 1999: 6 billion 2012: 6,973,738,433 BILLION PEOPLE!!! What do you notice??
Population Geography Studies aspects of population like birth & death rates, distribution, and density. Please turn to page 78 in your textbook: Please get out a piece of paper.
Assignment Pages 78-82: We will start as a class Term | Definition | Supporting details Birthrate, fertility rate, mortality rate, infant mortality rate, rate of natural increase, population pyramid, habitable lands, urban-rural mix, push-pull factors, population density, carrying capacity