| A | B |
| demography | the study of populations |
| culture | a way of beliefs and actions that show a group of peoples way of life |
| population density | the average number of people that live in an area |
| birthrate | the number of human births per year |
| death rate | the number of human deaths per year |
| immigrants | people who move into the country and come from another land |
| emigrants | people who leave their country to live somewhere else |
| urbanization | the growth of a cities population |
| rural | the countryside |
| diffusion | the spread of culture from one to the other |
| acculturation | the process of adapting traits from another culture |
| culture hearth | where an important idea begins and spreads to surrounding areas |