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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Language Branch
Stimulus Diffusion
Geography
Assimilation
2. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Eco-feminism
Cultural Region
Language Branch
Population Density
3. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Race
Renewable Resources
Language Branch
4. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Eco-feminism
Language Family
Developing Countries
Lingua Franca
5. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Race
Possibilism
Total Fertility Rate
Famine
6. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Geo-demography
Developed Country
Cultural Region
Environmental Determinism
7. 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
Civilization
Dictatorship
Geo-demography
Chain Migration
8. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Urbanization
Possibilism
Birth Rate
Dependent People
9. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Popular Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
10. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Geography
Assimilation
Contagious Diffusion
11. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Democracy
Famine
Refugee
12. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Literary Tradition
Relocation Diffusion
Language Family
13. The numerical ratio of males to females
Material Culture
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
Nonrenewable Resources
14. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Cultural Region
Toponym
slang
15. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Architecture
16. A language with a writing system
Ethnic Neighborhood
Absorbing Barrier
Linguistic Refuge Area
Literary Tradition
17. 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
Refugee
Renewable Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
Possibilism
18. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Death Rate
Place
Birth Rate
19. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Refugee
Symbolic Landscape
Region
Economic System
20. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Sex Ratio
Population Pyramid
Language Family
Death Rate
21. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Natural Resources
Genocide
Developed Country
Ethnic Neighborhood
22. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Pull Factors
Race
Barrio
Ghetto
23. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Cultural Region
Isogloss
Refugee
Dictatorship
24. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Culture
Dialect
Subculture
Cultural Diffusion
25. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Geography
Environmental Racism
Acculturation
26. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Region
Civilization
Folk Culture
Language Branch
27. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Cultural Region
Culture
Ethnic Flag
Stimulus Diffusion
28. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
Developing Countries
29. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Linguistic Refuge Area
Absorbing Barrier
30. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Quota
Dialect
Ethnoburb
Linguistic Refuge Area
31. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Ethnoburb
Creole
32. Place-name
Toponym
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Flag
Possibilism
33. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Tariffs
Assimilation
Mobility
34. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Relocation Diffusion
Tariffs
Ethnoburb
Barrio
35. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Chain Migration
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
36. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Barrio
Agroforestry
Language
Democracy
37. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural Region
Absorbing Barrier
Place
Colonialism
38. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Urbanization
Chain Migration
Globalization
Population Density
39. Goods brought into a country
Chain Migration
Import
Language
Ethnic Group
40. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Economic System
Isogloss
41. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Globalization
Region
Economic System
Dialect
42. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Mobility
Assimilation
Return Migration
Tariffs
43. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Newly Industrialized Countries
slang
Democracy
44. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Non-Material Culture
Creole
Environmental Perception
Civilization
45. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
free trade
slang
Lingua Franca
Eco-feminism
46. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Symbolic Landscape
Region
Push factors
Ethnic Neighborhood
47. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Birthrate
Place
Subculture
Expansion Diffusion
48. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Tariffs
Population Density
Globalization
Chain Migration
49. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Civilization
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
50. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Possibilism
Push factors
Place
Ethnolect