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Duplicate of AP Human Geography Vocabulary
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Almost all the vocabulary throughout the class of AP Human Geography.
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
The population by job and economics
The population by state and job
Population by age and sex
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Intervening opportunity
Migration termination
Gravity model
Location diffusion
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Nomadism
Horticulture
Plantation
Subsistence
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Sector Model
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Concentric Zone Model
Rostow's Model
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Artifact
Sociofact
Mentifact
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What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
Central Business Disclosure
Citizen Board of Discretion
Citizen Business District
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Rostow
Burgess
Malthus
Weber
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Franchise
Deagglomeration
Relocation
Agglomeration
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
The United States East Coast
England
France
Russia
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
Overlaying
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Ethnoism
Superiorism
Imperialism
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
GIS
Remote sensing
GPS
map
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Andecent
Conquescent
Subsequent
Anquescent
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Mentifact
Artifact
Sociofact
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What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
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The practice of having another country take over or supervise part of the business operations
Supervising
Repurposing
Outsourcing
Offshoring
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What is the dependency ratio?
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
Children: Adults
People working:People unemployed
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
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What is situation?
The absolute location of a place
The agricultural density of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The culture of a place
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Ancient Boundary
Relic Boundary
Relict Boundary
Former Boundary
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GDP
GNP
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What is the heartland-rimland theory?
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
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Jobs with information and knowledge processing:jobs with the highest level of decisionmaking
Quinary:Quaternary
Quaternary:Quinary
Secondary:Primary
Primary:Secondary
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Pidgin
Lingua franca
Business language
Creole
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What is environmental determinism?
Human behavior controls the environment
The environment controls human behavior
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
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What model is this?
Concentric Zones
Urban Realms
Multiple Nuclei
Sector
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Relocation diffusion
Heirachical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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What is the hinterlands?
A rural complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
The urban complex outside of a city
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
State:nation-state
Government:state
State:government
Nation-state:state
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Plantation Farming
Subsistence Farming
Nomadism
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Profit Agriculture
Industry
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What is site?
The culture of a place
The physical location of a place
The population density of a place
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Define Megacity
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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What is the rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Segregation
Socioism
Secularism
Atheism
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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
United States
Haiti
Afghanistan
Brazil
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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Fancy Region
Populous Region
Vernacular Region
Perceptual Region
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Power
War
Laws
Sovereignty
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Population Size Rule
Doublication
Duplification
Rank Size Rule
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What type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Spreading
Contagious
Hiearchical
Spatial
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Unoculture
Soloculture
Monoculture
Oneculture
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What is a centripetal force?
Different cultural backgrounds
One language
Different religions
Different ethnicities
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What is step migration?
A series of small moves to reach a destination
Moving only a small bit away
Migrating up a set of stairs
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Locational Depedence Theory
Location Theory
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Middlism
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
United States: Canada
Canada: United States
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Irredentism
Relocotatism
Relocation
Reclaimation
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What is the multiplier effect
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Animism
Spiritism
Animalism
Spiritalism
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
First Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
The Green Revolution
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Old Culture: New Culture
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
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Define absolute location
The location using longitude and latitude .
The address of the location.
The location using a map.
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary that no longer exists
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
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What is CBR?
Crude baby rate
Crude business rate
Crude birth rate
Crude bid rent
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Controlism
Colonialism
Superiorism
Imperalism
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Amendment boundaries
Superimposed boundaries
Forced boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Compact
Enlongated
Fragmented
Prorupt
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What is the gravity model?
Smaller places attract more attention than larger places
A single man will move to a city with 400 people
A single man will move to a city with 10000 people
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
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What type of sector has goods and services produced for individuals outside the urban work area
Basic
Nonbasic
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Compact State
Power House
Federal State
Unitary State
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-urban migration
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between economic and business growth
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GPS
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Superiorism
Ethnoism
Imperialism
Ethnocentrism
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Who designed the agricultural land use model based on transportation costs?
Von Thünen
Malthus
Mendel
Rostow
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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Ruralization
Migration
Urbanization
Suburbanization
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A formal region is a region with...
a connection to transportation
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
a percieved image of a region
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GIS
Remote sensing
Overlaying
GPS
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What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Megalopolis
World city
Mega city
Global city
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Intensive subsistence agriculture uses...
heavy inputs of fertilizer & human labor on a small area
less fertilizer & lots of human labor on a small rural area
the destruction of arable land
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Creole
Pidgin
Language Family
Language
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Freedom Farming
Truck Farming
United Farming
Subsistence Farming
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
Determinism
Environmental Possibilism
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A form of tribal religion that reveres a single person with special healing or magic powers?
Ancient Belief
Shamanism
Christianity
Buddhism
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An exclave is a....
Piece of territory that is surrounded by another territory
Completely enclosed within the border of another country
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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What is an example of channelized migration?
Senior citizens move to California
A Cuban family comes to Florida
A Mexican family move to Texas
Young adult singles move to Chicago
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The rate of natural increase is
Crude birth rate-Crude death rate
Population-Migrants
Population+Migrants
Crude death rate-Crude birth rate
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Friction decay
Gentrification
Migration
Distance decay
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Which is a megalopolis?
The Corn Belt
Toyko
London
The Tristate Area
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What is decolonization?
People go back to their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
People go to another country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
produce something that require maximum transport firms
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move to a country
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Creole
Pidgin
Simplistic Language
Language
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Renovatation
Gentrification
Rejuvenation
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The time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling growth
Doubling population
Doubling time
Population growth
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Secondary
Primary
Quintary
Tertiary
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What is an example of a dialect?
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
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What is the domino theory?
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
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Define pastoralism
Animals are killed in a season pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
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What is a charter group?
A large group of people go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Fragmented
Compact
Elongated
Perforated
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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Around location
Percieved location
Mental location
Relative location
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Compacted State
Enlongated State
Fragmented State
Perforated State
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Replacement Level
Fertility Rate
Secularism
Equality Level
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An example of a perceptual region is...
Canada
The Deep South
The Rocky Mountains
The Tristate Area
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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An expanse of water (200 miles) off a country coast designated for the country's resources
EPZs
EEZs
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megalopolis
Edge City
Megacity
Global city
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country taking over another country by force
A country decolonizing from another country
A country colonizing other countries
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mackinder
Mendel
Rostow
Malthus
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What is a charter group?
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
The first group of people to settle at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
A large group of people go to a place
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Repurposing
Supervising
Outsourcing
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The gerrymandering process is...
Unfair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
Fair
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Primate City
Megacity
Primary City
Superior City
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants move to a country
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One god:many gods
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
Polytheism:Monotheism
Gods:God
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language
Creole
Language Family
Pidgin
