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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Ethnoburb
Possibilism
Human Geography
2. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Place
Ethnolect
Refugee
Isogloss
3. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Lingua Franca
Nation-State
Linguistic Refuge Area
4. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Lingua Franca
Colonialism
Culture
Subsistence Economy
5. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Environmental Racism
Developed Country
Tariffs
Language
6. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Stimulus Diffusion
Region
Push factors
Chain Migration
7. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Culture
8. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Eco-feminism
Birthrate
Chain Migration
Creole
9. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Acculturation
Globalization
10. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Involuntary Migration
Material Culture
Possibilism
11. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Ethnic Flag
Folk Architecture
Ethnolect
12. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Environmental Racism
Language Branch
Globalization
Population Density
13. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Migration
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Newly Industrialized Countries
14. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Cultural Simplification
Tariffs
Human Geography
Place
15. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Famine
Birth Rate
Involuntary Migration
16. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Lingua Franca
Polyglot
Environmental Determinism
17. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Culture
Emigrate
Death Rate
Natural Resources
18. A limitation on imports
Quota
slang
Total Fertility Rate
Population Pyramid
19. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Toponym
Dictatorship
Natural Resources
Symbolic Landscape
20. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Ethnoburb
Polyglot
Environmental Racism
21. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Isogloss
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Density
22. Massacre of a particular group
Developing Countries
Assimilation
Genocide
Birth Rate
23. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Birthrate
Subculture
Import
24. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Geo-demography
Globalization
Chain Migration
Material Culture
25. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Total Fertility Rate
Isogloss
Birthrate
Non-Material Culture
26. The young and the old in a society who need care
Acculturation
Dependent People
Indigenous Culture
Push factors
27. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Perception
Agroforestry
Absorbing Barrier
28. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Famine
Refugee
Eco-feminism
Barrio
29. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Import
Material Culture
Push factors
30. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Material Culture
Quota
Nation-State
31. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Agroforestry
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
Isogloss
32. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Absorbing Barrier
Developing Countries
Creole
Culture
33. A belief - theory that the Environment may be one influence in how a person or culture develops but that there are other equally important factors
Geo-demography
Environmental Perception
Renewable Resources
Possibilism
34. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Environmental Determinism
Nonrenewable Resources
Isogloss
Monarchy
35. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Human Geography
Newly Industrialized Countries
slang
Lingua Franca
36. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Creole
Ethnic Neighborhood
Human Geography
Refugee
37. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Assimilation
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Cleansing
38. A government ruled by a king or queen
Genocide
Monarchy
Lingua Franca
Acculturation
39. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Quota
Symbolic Landscape
Stimulus Diffusion
40. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Ethnoburb
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Flag
41. 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
Environmental Determinism
Dictatorship
Ghetto
Language Branch
42. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Subsistence Economy
Permeable Barrier
Agroforestry
Chain Migration
43. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Subculture
Literary Tradition
Renewable Resources
44. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Geography
Symbolic Landscape
Contagious Diffusion
45. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Subsistence Economy
Nonrenewable Resources
Nation-State
46. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Lingua Franca
Globalization
Thomas Malthus
47. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnolect
Sex Ratio
Literary Tradition
48. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
free trade
Dialect
Ghetto
Famine
49. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Folk Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Acculturation
Assimilation
50. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Cultural Simplification
Civilization
Race
Dialect
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