Geography Chapter 5

The foundation of culture

What term means a state's unlimited authority to run affairs within its own borders?

Which principle states that all people have a right to determine the type of government they will have?

A person's set of beliefs about his purpose in life, which influences everything he does and expresses the culture?

Christ's command for believers to spread the gospel throughout the earth's peoples is the

What are the world's three largest organized religions today?

Parents and their children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins

Led by an elected leader

How many major language families are there?

The official records of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths are called

Countries with dictatorial governments that force their people to revere and worship the supreme dictator are said to be

What is an official government count of an entire population?

A state's strategy or set of guiding principles for dealing with other states is called its

One of the most widely recognized volunteer organizations in the world is the

What is the study of human populations?

What term describes the result of subtracting a state's crude death rate from its crude birth rate?

A unique pattern of speech within a single language family is a(n)

Groups of languages that share many common characteristics

Calculated in terms of annual national defense spending, which country is the world's only superpower today?

List the three ways by which one state can influence its neighboring states. (Choose 3)

Rule by the authority of the military

What word describes governments that are elected by the people?

A ruler receives authority from birth and rules as he pleases.

What word means a unique speech pattern within a single language?

The foundation of society

The man who proposed in 1798 the erroneous theory that the land could not continue to supply sufficient food for the wor

Which of the following is not a type of boundary discussed in Chapter 5 of the Geography student text?

A society's total way of life

What is the art of negotiating agreements between nations?

The number of years a person can expect to live is called his

A group of people comprising a nation who have established their own government is a

Which country has the greatest annual military expenditures?

What two significant international organizations were created in the 1940s? (Choose 2)