Friday, September 3, 2010

Vocabulary

1. Geography is the study of the features, lands, phenomena, and inhabitants of Earth. It's 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. wikipedia.org and dictionary.com
2. Globalization describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. wikipedia.org
3. Population is the total number of men, women, and children inhabited in a country, city, district or area. dictionary.com
4. Immigration is the entering of non-native people coming into a country to settle there. dictionary.com
5. Industrialization is the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. wikipedia.org
6. Culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group. wikipedia.org
7. Religion is a set of beliefs concerning to cause, nature, and purpose of the universe esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. dictionary.com


World population: U.S. Census Bureau
The world population is 6,866,469,763.


Top 5 Populations: Internet World Stats
Ranked# 1. China 1,330,141,295
Ranked# 2. India 1,173,108,018
Ranked# 3. United States 310,232,863
Ranked# 4. Indonesia 242,968,342
Ranked# 5. Brazil 201,103,330


Top 5 Religions: adherents.com
Ranked# 1. Christianity
Ranked# 2. Islam
Ranked# 3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist
Ranked# 4. Hinduism
Ranked# 5. Chinese traditional religion

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