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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
slang
Environmental Racism
Language Family
Birthrate
2. A language with a writing system
Race
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Group
Lingua Franca
3. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Stimulus Diffusion
Developed Country
Economic System
Expansion Diffusion
4. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Globalization
Ethnoburb
Pull Factors
Nation-State
5. The growth of cities
Subculture
Monarchy
Urbanization
Non-Material Culture
6. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
Civilization
Chain Migration
7. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Folk Culture
Folk Architecture
Urbanization
8. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Toponym
Human Geography
Emigrate
Cultural Diffusion
9. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Chain Migration
free trade
Famine
Eco-feminism
10. Place-name
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
Nation-State
Tariffs
11. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Mobility
Culture
Pull Factors
Non-Material Culture
12. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Race
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence Economy
Contagious Diffusion
13. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Globalization
Non-Material Culture
Eco-feminism
Birth Rate
14. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Urbanization
Refugee
Race
Chain Migration
15. The numerical ratio of males to females
Migration
Sex Ratio
Isogloss
Natural Resources
16. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Linguistic Refuge Area
Thomas Malthus
Import
17. To send goods to another country for sale
Human Geography
Polyglot
Export
Population Density
18. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Export
Indigenous Culture
Dialect
Return Migration
19. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Material Culture
Urbanization
Pidgin
20. Highly developed cultures
Developed Country
Civilization
Ethnic Flag
Migration
21. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Language Family
Acculturation
Developing Countries
Sex Ratio
22. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Monarchy
Developing Countries
Environmental Perception
Environmental Racism
23. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Nation-State
Language Family
Ethnolect
Ghetto
24. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Eco-feminism
Ethnolect
Newly Industrialized Countries
Death Rate
25. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ghetto
Total Fertility Rate
Polyglot
Eco-feminism
26. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Population Density
Push factors
Thomas Malthus
Involuntary Migration
27. 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
Famine
Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Possibilism
28. One who can speak many languages
Permeable Barrier
Absorbing Barrier
Renewable Resources
Polyglot
29. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Nation-State
Race
Polyglot
Population Pyramid
30. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Race
Nation-State
Eco-feminism
31. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Barrio
Nonrenewable Resources
Race
Popular Culture
32. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Environmental Determinism
33. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Culture
Pidgin
Bilingualism
Chain Migration
34. A government ruled by a king or queen
Pidgin
Monarchy
Environmental Determinism
Geo-demography
35. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Pull Factors
Subculture
36. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Barrio
37. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Geo-demography
Subculture
Refugee
Mobility
38. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Environmental Perception
Total Fertility Rate
Non-Material Culture
39. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dictatorship
Literary Tradition
Absorbing Barrier
40. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Acculturation
41. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Culture
Birth Rate
Quota
42. The young and the old in a society who need care
Subsistence Economy
free trade
Dependent People
Geography
43. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Developed Country
Human Geography
Toponym
Permeable Barrier
44. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Ethnoburb
Indigenous Culture
45. Structures built in a traditional manner
slang
Language Branch
Folk Architecture
free trade
46. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
Globalization
47. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Culture
Region
Ethnic Flag
Geography
48. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Absorbing Barrier
Material Culture
Isogloss
Cultural diffusion
49. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Literary Tradition
Language Branch
Colonialism
50. Goods brought into a country
Ethnic Group
Import
Culture
Non-Material Culture