It acts as a centripetal force, unifying a state and promoting stability.

It acts as a centrifugal force, dividing a state and leading to instability; can lead to balkanization.

Common in less developed countries (LDCs) due to lack of healthcare access and resources.

Preference for male children leading to practices like female infanticide and sex-selective abortions.

Traditional roles are being challenged by popular culture and feminist ideas.

Cultural landscapes reflect the values, beliefs, and practices of different groups. They are dynamic and tell a story about the people who live there.

The environment shapes a culture. Agricultural practices are influenced by climate and soil type.

Multiple groups occupy a place over time, each leaving their own cultural imprint. Bolivia's landscape shows influences from the Inca civilization and Spanish colonial conquerors.

Humans adapt to their physical and cultural surroundings. Building houses on stilts in flood-prone areas.

Landscapes hold deep cultural or religious significance. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is sacred to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

The visible imprint of human activity on the physical environment.

The study of how the environment shapes a culture.

The idea that multiple groups occupy a place over time, each leaving their own cultural imprint.

The ways humans adapt to their physical and cultural surroundings.

Landscapes that hold deep cultural or religious significance.

Regions defined by shared cultural perceptions and feelings.

Regions defined by one or more shared characteristics.

Regions organized around a central node or function.

Place names that reflect cultural identity and history.

Differences in socioeconomic and political power between men and women.

Forces that unify a state and promote stability.

Forces that divide a state and lead to instability.

The process where a state breaks down due to ethnic conflict.

A Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

The forcible removal of a less powerful ethnic group by a more powerful one to create a homogenous nation-state.

The process by which a state breaks down due to ethnic conflicts.

Multiple groups occupy a place over time, each leaving their own cultural imprint, like Bolivia showing Inca and Spanish influences.

Regions defined by shared cultural perceptions, like the Bible Belt or Chinatown, based on how people perceive an area.

Regions defined by one or more shared characteristics, like a French-speaking region or an area with a specific climate.

Regions organized around a central node or function, like a metropolitan area, radio broadcast area, or sports team's fan base.

Forces that unify a state and promote stability, acting as the 'glue' that holds a country together.

Forces that divide a state and lead to instability, potentially tearing a country apart.

Divides land into rectangular parcels, used in the US west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Narrow parcels stretching from rivers, roads, or canals, used by French and Spanish colonists.

A rectangular system designed to evenly disperse settlers across the US interior.

Relies on natural features to mark land boundaries, used east of the Appalachian Mountains.

Unique to a specific region, built with local materials, and reflect cultural traditions.

Widely spread, constantly changing, lack regional distinctiveness, often mass-produced.