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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Developing Countries
Linguistic Refuge Area
Folk Culture
Pidgin
2. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Geo-demography
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
Globalization
3. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Renewable Resources
Economic System
Lingua Franca
slang
4. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Economic System
Ethnic Cleansing
Democracy
5. Taxes on imports or exports
Ethnic Flag
slang
Tariffs
Literary Tradition
6. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Stimulus Diffusion
Monarchy
Eco-feminism
Bilingualism
7. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Acculturation
Refugee
Dialect
Environmental Racism
8. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Folk Culture
Cultural Region
9. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Monarchy
Environmental Perception
Import
10. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Import
Thomas Malthus
Total Fertility Rate
Famine
11. The growth of cities
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Urbanization
Barrio
Material Culture
12. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Cultural Simplification
Death Rate
Migration
13. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
free trade
Dialect
Cultural Diffusion
Folk Architecture
14. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Quota
Place
Refugee
Colonialism
15. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Sex Ratio
Creole
Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
16. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Agroforestry
Nation-State
free trade
Toponym
17. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Ethnolect
Population Pyramid
Environmental Perception
Emigrate
18. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Human Geography
Chain Migration
slang
Geography
19. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Emigrate
Thomas Malthus
Absorbing Barrier
20. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Region
Lingua Franca
Place
21. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Indigenous Culture
Bilingualism
Population Pyramid
Ethnoburb
22. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Dialect
Nation-State
Culture
Colonialism
23. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Toponym
free trade
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Group
24. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Chain Migration
Ethnic Flag
Geography
free trade
25. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Barrio
Absorbing Barrier
Isogloss
Migration
26. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
free trade
Lingua Franca
Return Migration
27. Place-name
Symbolic Landscape
Nonrenewable Resources
Toponym
Place
28. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Isogloss
Natural Resources
Mobility
Renewable Resources
29. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Region
Environmental Racism
Renewable Resources
Place
30. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Monarchy
Democracy
Non-Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
31. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Economic System
Language
Monarchy
Relocation Diffusion
32. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Eco-feminism
Place
Genocide
Dialect
33. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Mobility
Nonrenewable Resources
Monarchy
Newly Industrialized Countries
34. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Nation-State
Population Density
Nonrenewable Resources
Region
35. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Ethnic Group
Push factors
Environmental Perception
36. Massacre of a particular group
Expansion Diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Genocide
free trade
37. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Human Geography
Environmental Determinism
Culture
Natural Resources
38. The young and the old in a society who need care
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
Dependent People
Geography
39. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Ethnic Neighborhood
Refugee
Urbanization
Dependent People
40. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Sex Ratio
Subculture
Indigenous Culture
Refugee
41. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Tariffs
Folk Architecture
Economic System
Assimilation
42. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Ethnolect
Possibilism
Agroforestry
Globalization
43. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Export
Urbanization
Stimulus Diffusion
Folk Culture
44. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Region
Dictatorship
Place
45. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Toponym
Possibilism
Symbolic Landscape
Acculturation
46. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Ethnic Flag
Globalization
Barrio
47. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Subsistence Economy
Absorbing Barrier
Import
Indigenous Culture
48. To send goods to another country for sale
Cultural diffusion
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
Export
49. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Refugee
Lingua Franca
Popular Culture
50. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Indigenous Culture
Push factors
slang
Polyglot