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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Import
Popular Culture
2. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Culture
Civilization
Population Pyramid
Migration
3. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Involuntary Migration
Eco-feminism
Nonrenewable Resources
Genocide
4. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Permeable Barrier
Eco-feminism
Dependent People
5. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Possibilism
Symbolic Landscape
Folk Architecture
Ethnolect
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ghetto
Ethnic Group
Race
Dialect
7. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Contagious Diffusion
Refugee
Colonialism
Developing Countries
8. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Ethnoburb
Return Migration
Material Culture
Colonialism
9. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Thomas Malthus
Place
Polyglot
10. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Culture
Cultural Region
Death Rate
11. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Language Family
Lingua Franca
Expansion Diffusion
Chain Migration
12. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Death Rate
Culture
Population Pyramid
Developing Countries
13. Highly developed cultures
Relocation Diffusion
Urbanization
Toponym
Civilization
14. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Globalization
Pull Factors
Ethnic Flag
15. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Nation-State
Region
Birth Rate
Dictatorship
16. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Culture
Chain Migration
Place
slang
17. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Involuntary Migration
Quota
Ethnic Group
Environmental Racism
18. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
19. Government ruled by the people
Ethnic Group
Mobility
Democracy
Subsistence Economy
20. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Globalization
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Urbanization
Culture
21. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Dictatorship
Language Family
Geo-demography
Barrio
22. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Relocation Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Cultural Region
Birthrate
23. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Sex Ratio
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Determinism
Chain Migration
24. A government ruled by a king or queen
Death Rate
Agroforestry
Toponym
Monarchy
25. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Population Pyramid
Population Density
Popular Culture
Human Geography
26. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Ghetto
Emigrate
Cultural diffusion
Return Migration
27. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Push factors
Folk Culture
Import
Ethnic Neighborhood
28. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
slang
Material Culture
Democracy
Subculture
29. Taxes on imports or exports
Pidgin
Tariffs
Possibilism
Migration
30. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Popular Culture
Refugee
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Group
31. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Ghetto
Literary Tradition
Globalization
Agroforestry
32. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Ethnic Group
Newly Industrialized Countries
Globalization
Environmental Racism
33. To send goods to another country for sale
Refugee
Cultural Region
Non-Material Culture
Export
34. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
Population Pyramid
Ghetto
35. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Assimilation
Developed Country
Place
Thomas Malthus
36. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dependent People
Mobility
Pull Factors
37. A government in which the people have no rights; one person or a small group of people rule the country by force and make all the laws
Culture
Dictatorship
Environmental Racism
Region
38. A stabilized population created when an average of only 2 children per couple survive to adulthood so that the number of births equals the number of deaths
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Perception
Acculturation
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
39. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Thomas Malthus
Developing Countries
Ghetto
40. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Thomas Malthus
Dictatorship
Place
Pidgin
41. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Ethnolect
Developing Countries
Birthrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
42. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Economic System
Ethnic Group
Birthrate
Colonialism
43. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Barrio
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
Mobility
44. The raising of plants or animals
Agroforestry
Linguistic Refuge Area
Culture
Race
45. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Genocide
Total Fertility Rate
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Cleansing
46. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Literary Tradition
Monarchy
Push factors
47. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Sex Ratio
Thomas Malthus
Literary Tradition
48. A limitation on imports
Lingua Franca
Ethnoburb
Human Geography
Quota
49. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Refugee
Colonialism
Culture
Isogloss
50. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Cultural diffusion
Agroforestry
Birthrate
Quota