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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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What is a centripetal force?
Different ethnicities
One language
Different cultural backgrounds
Different religions
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What is the belief that spirits live within objects including animals, rivers, and rocks?
Spiritalism
Spiritism
Animalism
Animism
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What is the gravity model?
Larger places attract more attention than smaller places
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
4
Define pastoralism
Animals are herded in a seasonal migratory pattern
Animals are left out in pastures
Animals are killed in a season pattern
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The production of a single crop for commercial markets, such as rice, corn, and wheat
Oneculture
Monoculture
Unoculture
Soloculture
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A urban complex that consists of more workers than residents (plus lots of offices)
Megalopolis
Edge City
Global city
Megacity
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Type of government w/ main government in power:Type of government w/ local government in power
Federal: Confederate
Confederate: Federal
Canada: United States
United States: Canada
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What is the domino theory?
If a family moves, their relatives will move
A group of people move, so more people will move
A country colonizes another country so neighbors colonize
A country becomes communists so neighbors become communists
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What is imperialism?
A country taking over another country who willingly agree
A country decolonizing from another country
A country taking over another country by force
A country colonizing other countries
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What type of agriculture only creates enough crops to sustain its population?
Nomadism
Subsistence
Plantation
Horticulture
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Define antecedent boundary
Boundary placed before the cultural landscape was developed
Boundary that is placed that ignores cultural landscape
Boundary decided after cultural landscape has been developed
Boundary that no longer exists
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Relocation diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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Theory that the physical environment merely establishes limits of what is possible for humanity
Environmental Determinism
Determinism
Possibilism
Environmental Possibilism
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What is commercial gardening and fruit farming in the US referred to as?
Subsistence Farming
United Farming
Freedom Farming
Truck Farming
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What is a tangible piece of material culture?
Mentifact
Artifact
Sociofact
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Least cost theory is _____ when locating an industry.
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is maximized
location, transportation, and agglomeration is maximized
labor, transporation, and agglomeration is minimized
location, transporation, and deagglomeration is minimized
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What does DC and LDC stand for?
DC: dying countries, DLC: less developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: lower developed countries
DC: developed countries, LDC: less developed countries
DC: depedent countries, LDC: large dependent countries
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The second largest city is half the population of the largest city
Duplification
Rank Size Rule
Doublication
Population Size Rule
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What is boundary called when it is drawn after cultural landscape is in place?
Andecent
Subsequent
Conquescent
Anquescent
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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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What is a country going through
deindustrialization
?
Haiti
United States
Afghanistan
Brazil
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The gross domestic product plus the value of income from abroad
GDP
GNP
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What type of boundary is forced on a territory after existing ones are in place?
Superimposed boundaries
Forced boundaries
Amendment boundaries
Vengeful boundaries
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Who created the concentric zone model?
Rostow
Burgess
Weber
Malthus
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What model shows urban growth in pie-shaped wedges based on transportation improvements?
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Rostow's Model
Sector Model
Concentric Zone Model
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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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What is a popular region named for the way people percieve it?
Fancy Region
Vernacular Region
Perceptual Region
Populous Region
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What is it called when a country declares control over a territory outside its own boundaries?
Superiorism
Controlism
Colonialism
Imperalism
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What is site?
The population density of a place
The culture of a place
The physical location of a place
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In what revolution did the domestication of plants and animals become a part of society?
Third Agricultural Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
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What is the internationally recognized exercise of a country's power over its people/territory?
Laws
War
Power
Sovereignty
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Heirarchical diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
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What type of economic activities provide services?
Tertiary
Secondary
Primary
Quintary
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An example of a perceptual region is...
Canada
The Tristate Area
The Deep South
The Rocky Mountains
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What model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
Sector
Urban Realms
Concentric Zones
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What is the hinterlands?
A rural complex outside of a city
The urban complex outside of a city
The surrounding trade area of an urban area
The surrounding trade area of an rural area
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Define absolute location
The address of the location.
The location using a map.
The location using longitude and latitude .
The location using streetnames and landmarks.
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
England
Russia
France
The United States East Coast
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What do you call an old boundary between countries that is no longer used?
Former Boundary
Relict Boundary
Ancient Boundary
Relic Boundary
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
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Migrants will choose a location closer rather than farther if all other factors are the same
Intervening opportunity
Location diffusion
Migration termination
Gravity model
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A nonmaterial part of a culture like language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths
Artifact
Sociofact
Mentifact
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A form of subsistence agriculture that uses different fields for crops on a rotating basis
Shifting Agriculture
Nomadism
Subsistence Farming
Plantation Farming
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The production of goods and parts abroad for sale in one's own country
Offshoring
Supervising
Outsourcing
Repurposing
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What is decolonization?
People go back to their home country
Former colonies rejoin their home country
Former colonies gain independence from their home country
People go to another country
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A state with a strong central government that retains most political power.
Compact State
Federal State
Unitary State
Power House
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What is the process in which culture is spread from one region to another?
Cultural diffusion
Heirarchical diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation diffusion
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When an ethnic group is trying to reclaim or relocate to its homeland
Relocotatism
Reclaimation
Relocation
Irredentism
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Who created the model of development for countries that is based on stages of economic growth?
Mendel
Malthus
Mackinder
Rostow
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A simplified language created by merging two other languages.
Creole
Pidgin
Language
Simplistic Language
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A formal region is a region with...
a connection to transportation
a percieved image of a region
a high level of consistency w/ a culture or physical trait
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What does CBD stand for?
Citizen Board of Discretion
Central Business District
Citizen Business District
Central Business Disclosure
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The value of all final goods and services produced in a country per year
GNP
GDP
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Migrants try to minimize the friction of distance by moving to locations closer to them
Friction decay
Gentrification
Distance decay
Migration
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What is situation?
The culture of a place
The location of a place based on relation to other places
The absolute location of a place
The agricultural density of a place
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What is CBR?
Crude baby rate
Crude birth rate
Crude business rate
Crude bid rent
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What is a global city that serves as a connection point in the global economic system called?
Global city
World city
Mega city
Megalopolis
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The gerrymandering process is...
Creating district boundaries to favor a certain race
Fair
Unfair
Creating district boudaries to favor a political party
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Remote sensing
GIS
Overlaying
GPS
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What is it called when corporations use commercial agriculture to gain a profit?
Agribusiness
Agriculture
Industry
Profit Agriculture
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language Family
Creole
Pidgin
Language
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When many businesses locate themselves near similar businesses, what is it called?
Relocation
Deagglomeration
Franchise
Agglomeration
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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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What is the movement of people from urban cores to the surrounding outer edges of a city?
Suburbanization
Migration
Ruralization
Urbanization
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A population pyramid reflects on the
The population by age and job
Population by age and sex
The population by job and economics
The population by state and job
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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 multiplier effect
Basic jobs:Nonbasic jobs
Non-basic jobs:Basic Jobs
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Companies will try to limit the other territories by moving towards the middle of the customers
Locational Interdepedence Theory
Middlism
Locational Depedence Theory
Location Theory
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What is a charter group?
The first group of people to settle at a place
A large group of people go to a place
The first group of people to establish a culture at a place
The most recent group of people to go to a place
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The population level necessary to assure the population continues to replace itself
Fertility Rate
Equality Level
Secularism
Replacement Level
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What do you call the movement of people from the countryside to the city?
rural-to-urban migration
urban-to-suburban migration
rural-to-suburban migration
urban-to-rural migration
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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 rejection of all religious beliefs called?
Segregation
Atheism
Socioism
Secularism
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Not the formal language of the country but the language used in the country trade and bussiness
Business language
Creole
Lingua franca
Pidgin
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A state that is long and narrow in shape
Fragmented State
Enlongated State
Perforated State
Compacted State
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
GPS
GIS
Overlaying
Remote sensing
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What is the dependency ratio?
People under 15 & older than 65:people 15-65
People 15-65:People under 15 & older than 65
People working:People unemployed
Children: Adults
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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A group of people who follow traditional lifestyle:The changing culture of a group of people
Folk Culture: Popular Culture
Population Culture: Folk Culture
New Culture: Old Culture
Old Culture: New Culture
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Footloose firms are firms that
produce something that require maximum transport firms
produce something that requires minimal transport costs
Cut loose other businesses
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Imperialism
Ethnoism
Superiorism
Ethnocentrism
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The belief that one's own ethnic group is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
Superiorism
Imperialism
Ethnoism
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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 type of diffusion is spread over time and space?
Contagious
Spreading
Spatial
Hiearchical
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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 heartland-rimland theory?
The rimlands will rule the world/heartlands
The Heartlands (Eurasia) will rule the world/rimlands
is a theory created by Thomas Malthus
is a theory made by Halford Mackinder
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A state where over 90% of the population is an ethnic group:a political unit composed of people
Government:state
Nation-state:state
State:nation-state
State:government
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What is step migration?
Migrating up a set of stairs
Moving only a small bit away
A series of small moves to reach a destination
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The adoption of something by a ruler or administrater diffused downward into the society
Heirachical diffusion
Relocation diffusion
Cultural diffusion
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The process of renovating an old, run-down part of a neighborhood for the middle & upper class
Rejuvenation
Renovatation
Gentrification
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants move to a country
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What is the demographic transition model?
It shows the link between population and agricultural growth
It shows the link between population and economic growth
It shows the link between economic and business growth
It shows the link between agricultural and ecomonic growth
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A city that is twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant
Megacity
Primary City
Primate City
Superior City
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A mapping software with the purpose of overlaying various data layers on a locational map grid
Overlaying
Remote sensing
GIS
GPS
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What is assimilation?
Immigrants move to a country
Immigrants move from a country
Immigrants keep old traits and integrate party into society
Immigrants fully integrate themselves into a society
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Which is a megalopolis?
The Tristate Area
The Corn Belt
London
Toyko
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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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Define Megacity
A city with other 10 thousand people
A city with over 20 million people
A city with other 20 thousand people
A city wth other 10 million people
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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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The location of a place in relation to the location of other places
Mental location
Around location
Percieved location
Relative location
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What is an example of a dialect?
An English speaker learns the Spanish language
A French speaker speaks only French
An English speaker tries to speak Spanish, but says it wrong
A Spanish speaker speaks English with a Spanish accent
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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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A state that totally surrounds another country.
Compact
Fragmented
Elongated
Perforated
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The process of detecting the nature of an area from a distance
Remote sensing
GPS
map
GIS
105
What agricultural revolution started in the 17th century and increased the efficiency of crops?
The Green Revolution
First Agricultural Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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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 time it takes for a population to double in size if the growth rate stays the same
Doubling growth
Doubling population
Population growth
Doubling time
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Area of a country with great investment and trading conditions to attract foreign investors
EEZs
EPZs
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What is environmental determinism?
Human behavior controls the environment
The environment controls human behavior
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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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One god:many gods
Gods:God
Polytheism:Monotheism
Monotheism:Polytheism
God:Gods
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A state that is inititially round and has a large extension
Enlongated
Compact
Prorupt
Fragmented
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Higher-yield and fast growing crops through new and improved technology to remove world hunger
First Agricultural Revolution
Green Revolution
Second Agricultural Revolution
Third Agricultural Revolution
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A simplified mixture of two or more languages that is adopted in areas of cultural diversity
Language Family
Creole
Language
Pidgin
