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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Environmental Determinism
Popular Culture
Colonialism
Contagious Diffusion
2. To send goods to another country for sale
Natural Resources
Export
Expansion Diffusion
Geography
3. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Famine
Tariffs
Export
4. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Death Rate
Bilingualism
Refugee
Human Geography
5. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Material Culture
Eco-feminism
Developed Country
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
free trade
Developed Country
Popular Culture
7. Original inhabitants of an area
Tariffs
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
Dialect
8. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Subculture
Toponym
Colonialism
Death Rate
9. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Cultural Region
Return Migration
Language Branch
Developing Countries
10. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Popular Culture
Developed Country
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Flag
11. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Cultural diffusion
Natural Resources
Place
Culture
12. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Acculturation
Quota
13. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Pidgin
Literary Tradition
Chain Migration
Urbanization
14. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Population Pyramid
Quota
Assimilation
Barrio
15. Structures built in a traditional manner
Involuntary Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Architecture
Ethnolect
16. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Human Geography
Bilingualism
Popular Culture
Cultural diffusion
17. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Natural Resources
Developing Countries
Barrio
18. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Refugee
Chain Migration
Subculture
Nonrenewable Resources
19. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Race
Mobility
Relocation Diffusion
20. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Population Pyramid
Culture
Refugee
Return Migration
21. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Developing Countries
Birthrate
Cultural Region
Dialect
22. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Indigenous Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Place
Literary Tradition
23. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Non-Material Culture
Agroforestry
Mobility
24. A limitation on imports
Quota
Nation-State
Total Fertility Rate
Sex Ratio
25. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Colonialism
Sex Ratio
Contagious Diffusion
Creole
26. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Death Rate
Export
Refugee
Chain Migration
27. Place-name
Developing Countries
Bilingualism
Creole
Toponym
28. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Import
Subculture
Culture
slang
29. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Total Fertility Rate
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
Sex Ratio
30. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Cleansing
Nation-State
Mobility
31. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Culture
Ethnic Group
Literary Tradition
Developed Country
32. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Place
Civilization
Environmental Racism
free trade
33. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Natural Resources
Barrio
Mobility
34. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Language Family
Lingua Franca
Globalization
Nation-State
35. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Geography
Language Family
Stimulus Diffusion
Lingua Franca
36. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Creole
Acculturation
Colonialism
Birth Rate
37. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Literary Tradition
Cultural diffusion
Mobility
38. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Geo-demography
Birthrate
Genocide
39. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Relocation Diffusion
Place
Ethnoburb
40. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Emigrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Racism
41. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Developed Country
Agroforestry
Folk Culture
Symbolic Landscape
42. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Toponym
Migration
Nation-State
Agroforestry
43. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Region
Human Geography
Absorbing Barrier
44. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Polyglot
Monarchy
Non-Material Culture
Language
45. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Cultural Region
Dialect
Import
Environmental Perception
46. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Folk Architecture
Export
47. Resources that can be renewed
Assimilation
Renewable Resources
Language Branch
Expansion Diffusion
48. Goods brought into a country
Import
Dialect
Ethnic Flag
Colonialism
49. A language with a writing system
Civilization
Literary Tradition
Migration
Culture
50. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Cultural Region
Relocation Diffusion
Death Rate
Environmental Perception