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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Cultural Region
Chain Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
Globalization
2. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Place
Nation-State
Ethnic Cleansing
3. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Quota
Folk Culture
Developed Country
Dependent People
4. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Ethnoburb
Language
Developing Countries
Folk Architecture
5. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Folk Architecture
Material Culture
Urbanization
Folk Culture
6. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Emigrate
Renewable Resources
Developing Countries
Developed Country
7. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Acculturation
Ethnoburb
Population Pyramid
Export
8. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Flag
Pull Factors
Region
9. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Import
Ethnic Group
Birthrate
slang
10. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Agroforestry
Cultural Simplification
Possibilism
Environmental Perception
11. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Import
Environmental Racism
Pull Factors
Globalization
12. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Ethnic Neighborhood
Geography
Population Pyramid
Environmental Racism
13. Massacre of a particular group
Globalization
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
Economic System
14. The growth of cities
Push factors
Death Rate
Lingua Franca
Urbanization
15. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Environmental Determinism
Dictatorship
Relocation Diffusion
Creole
16. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Race
Colonialism
Developed Country
Expansion Diffusion
17. The young and the old in a society who need care
Environmental Racism
Dependent People
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
18. Structures built in a traditional manner
Sex Ratio
Folk Architecture
Return Migration
Popular Culture
19. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Environmental Determinism
slang
Import
Language Branch
20. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Death Rate
Dependent People
Urbanization
21. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Indigenous Culture
Emigrate
Quota
Nonrenewable Resources
22. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Region
23. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
free trade
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Bilingualism
24. Original inhabitants of an area
Renewable Resources
Polyglot
slang
Indigenous Culture
25. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Symbolic Landscape
Isogloss
Culture
Environmental Perception
26. A stabilized population created when an average of only 2 children per couple survive to adulthood so that the number of births equals the number of deaths
Chain Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Language Branch
Dialect
27. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Bilingualism
Contagious Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
28. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
Cultural Region
Natural Resources
29. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Geo-demography
Assimilation
Subculture
Dependent People
30. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Monarchy
Return Migration
Developed Country
31. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Population Density
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Dialect
32. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Ethnic Group
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Region
Acculturation
33. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Assimilation
Non-Material Culture
Cultural Simplification
Agroforestry
34. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural diffusion
Assimilation
Environmental Racism
Absorbing Barrier
35. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Mobility
Natural Resources
Globalization
36. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Mobility
slang
Cultural Diffusion
Region
37. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Ethnic Cleansing
Population Density
Involuntary Migration
Pidgin
38. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Race
Thomas Malthus
Geo-demography
39. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Region
Eco-feminism
Language Family
Geography
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Migration
Sex Ratio
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
41. A limitation on imports
Ethnic Neighborhood
Quota
Monarchy
Indigenous Culture
42. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Agroforestry
Birth Rate
Non-Material Culture
Bilingualism
43. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Isogloss
Ghetto
Ethnic Cleansing
Dictatorship
44. Government ruled by the people
Birthrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
Democracy
Total Fertility Rate
45. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Cultural Region
46. Highly developed cultures
Nonrenewable Resources
Civilization
Population Pyramid
Cultural Region
47. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Isogloss
Eco-feminism
Push factors
Polyglot
48. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Emigrate
Democracy
Total Fertility Rate
49. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Death Rate
Folk Architecture
Popular Culture
Birthrate
50. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Export
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Diffusion