Friday, September 3, 2010

The end of week one-vocab

Geography- The science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.

Globalization- To extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.

Population- the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.

Immigration- is the introduction of new people into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.

Industrialization- to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.


Culture-  to convert to the ideals, methods, aims, etc., of industrialism.
the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.

Religion- the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions


http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Population of the world - Estimated about 6,866,400,000

Population of the largest countries:
China- 1,339,270,000
India-1,187,130,000
America-310,152,000
Indonesia- 237,556,363
Brazil-193,453,000

 Largests Religion-
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Folk Religions
Buddhism

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