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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Population geography
Refugee
Geo-demography
slang
Death Rate
2. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Toponym
Language
Import
Export
3. Massacre of a particular group
Export
Urbanization
Geo-demography
Genocide
4. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
slang
Toponym
Ethnic Group
Genocide
5. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Developed Country
Thomas Malthus
Natural Resources
6. Taxes on imports or exports
slang
Tariffs
Absorbing Barrier
Subsistence Economy
7. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Involuntary Migration
Colonialism
Newly Industrialized Countries
8. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Indigenous Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Assimilation
Folk Architecture
9. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Environmental Perception
Creole
Barrio
Emigrate
10. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Cultural Simplification
Renewable Resources
Dependent People
Non-Material Culture
11. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Environmental Determinism
Isogloss
Bilingualism
12. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Material Culture
Birth Rate
Region
Acculturation
13. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dictatorship
Assimilation
Expansion Diffusion
14. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Permeable Barrier
Developed Country
Popular Culture
Dependent People
15. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Quota
Language Branch
Ethnic Cleansing
16. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Subculture
Export
Ethnic Flag
Death Rate
17. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Language
Ethnic Group
Democracy
Dialect
18. Goods brought into a country
Developed Country
Folk Culture
Export
Import
19. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Acculturation
Polyglot
Permeable Barrier
Colonialism
20. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Pidgin
Globalization
Refugee
Stimulus Diffusion
21. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Dialect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Race
Ethnic Group
22. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
free trade
Environmental Determinism
Push factors
Isogloss
23. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
slang
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Cleansing
24. The numerical ratio of males to females
Stimulus Diffusion
Birth Rate
Sex Ratio
Expansion Diffusion
25. The raising of plants or animals
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
Pidgin
Culture
26. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ghetto
free trade
Bilingualism
Migration
27. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Birthrate
Ghetto
Death Rate
Folk Culture
28. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Population Density
Migration
Nation-State
Economic System
29. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
Language Branch
30. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Cultural diffusion
Region
Environmental Determinism
Death Rate
31. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Cultural Region
Region
Possibilism
32. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Sex Ratio
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
33. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Environmental Determinism
Democracy
free trade
Isogloss
34. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Pidgin
Push factors
Relocation Diffusion
Subculture
35. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Cultural Region
Geography
Polyglot
36. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Refugee
Sex Ratio
Ethnolect
Popular Culture
37. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Pidgin
Ethnolect
Ethnoburb
Subsistence Economy
38. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Language Family
Isogloss
Polyglot
39. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Monarchy
Push factors
Polyglot
40. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Birthrate
Cultural Region
Refugee
Non-Material Culture
41. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Group
Involuntary Migration
Total Fertility Rate
Linguistic Refuge Area
42. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Death Rate
Folk Culture
Pull Factors
Assimilation
43. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Nonrenewable Resources
Death Rate
Linguistic Refuge Area
Import
44. Original inhabitants of an area
Emigrate
Urbanization
Indigenous Culture
Ethnoburb
45. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Ethnic Group
Nation-State
Possibilism
Pidgin
46. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Subsistence Economy
Migration
Race
47. 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
Possibilism
Nation-State
Folk Culture
Folk Architecture
48. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Monarchy
Creole
Ethnolect
slang
49. A government ruled by a king or queen
Geo-demography
Monarchy
Literary Tradition
Democracy
50. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Neighborhood
Indigenous Culture
Developing Countries
Ethnic Cleansing