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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Ghetto
Dictatorship
Popular Culture
Birthrate
2. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Export
Non-Material Culture
Import
Ethnic Cleansing
3. Taxes on imports or exports
Nonrenewable Resources
Import
Dialect
Tariffs
4. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnoburb
Colonialism
5. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Language Family
Economic System
Death Rate
Sex Ratio
6. Government ruled by the people
Emigrate
Nonrenewable Resources
Democracy
Symbolic Landscape
7. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnoburb
Expansion Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
8. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Thomas Malthus
Material Culture
Renewable Resources
Acculturation
9. 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
Involuntary Migration
Language Family
Mobility
Possibilism
10. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Death Rate
Involuntary Migration
Chain Migration
11. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Cultural Region
Barrio
Geo-demography
12. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Genocide
Population Density
Subsistence Economy
Subculture
13. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Famine
Natural Resources
Geo-demography
Death Rate
14. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Economic System
Return Migration
Ethnoburb
Expansion Diffusion
15. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Subculture
Geo-demography
Cultural Region
Population Density
16. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnolect
Birthrate
17. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Population Density
Symbolic Landscape
Linguistic Refuge Area
Migration
18. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
slang
Newly Industrialized Countries
19. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Dictatorship
Refugee
Human Geography
Permeable Barrier
20. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Colonialism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Population Pyramid
Absorbing Barrier
21. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Famine
Birth Rate
22. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Ethnic Group
Pidgin
Region
Literary Tradition
23. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Subsistence Economy
free trade
Literary Tradition
Globalization
24. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Language Family
Folk Culture
Isogloss
25. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Ethnic Cleansing
Language
Chain Migration
Population Density
26. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Natural Resources
Birthrate
Involuntary Migration
Pull Factors
27. Structures built in a traditional manner
Import
Population Pyramid
Language Family
Folk Architecture
28. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Involuntary Migration
Folk Architecture
Famine
Human Geography
29. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Ethnic Group
Import
Natural Resources
Chain Migration
30. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Ethnic Cleansing
Quota
Developed Country
Developing Countries
31. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Tariffs
Isogloss
Acculturation
Chain Migration
32. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Famine
Export
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
33. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Birth Rate
Bilingualism
Sex Ratio
34. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Birthrate
Geo-demography
Involuntary Migration
Refugee
35. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Quota
Agroforestry
Pidgin
Newly Industrialized Countries
36. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
Thomas Malthus
Monarchy
37. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Isogloss
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
38. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Civilization
Thomas Malthus
Permeable Barrier
Refugee
39. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Refugee
Barrio
Death Rate
Migration
40. The young and the old in a society who need care
Tariffs
Language Family
Renewable Resources
Dependent People
41. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Environmental Perception
Non-Material Culture
Culture
Dictatorship
42. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural Simplification
Dependent People
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnoburb
43. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Dialect
Environmental Determinism
Language Family
Newly Industrialized Countries
44. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Perception
Chain Migration
Place
45. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Push factors
Nation-State
Subsistence Economy
Bilingualism
46. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Cultural Simplification
Nation-State
Death Rate
Ethnic Group
47. Resources that can be renewed
Nonrenewable Resources
Import
Birth Rate
Renewable Resources
48. Goods brought into a country
Import
Ethnic Cleansing
Contagious Diffusion
Population Density
49. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Cultural Diffusion
Migration
Population Pyramid
Population Density
50. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Refugee
Renewable Resources
Folk Architecture
Creole