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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Permeable Barrier
Indigenous Culture
Relocation Diffusion
2. Government ruled by the people
Absorbing Barrier
Birthrate
Democracy
Language
3. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Popular Culture
Colonialism
Refugee
4. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Absorbing Barrier
Refugee
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
5. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Cleansing
Death Rate
Globalization
6. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Import
Chain Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
Expansion Diffusion
7. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Renewable Resources
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Group
Popular Culture
8. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Material Culture
Language Family
Refugee
Race
9. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Environmental Perception
Birthrate
Quota
Ethnic Flag
10. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Polyglot
Migration
Pidgin
11. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Pidgin
Literary Tradition
Population Density
Famine
12. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
Culture
13. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Isogloss
Dependent People
Contagious Diffusion
Geography
14. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Culture
Permeable Barrier
15. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Polyglot
Agroforestry
Acculturation
Human Geography
16. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Push factors
Monarchy
Chain Migration
Agroforestry
17. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Determinism
Place
Ghetto
18. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Ghetto
Thomas Malthus
Human Geography
19. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Permeable Barrier
Material Culture
Globalization
Eco-feminism
20. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Contagious Diffusion
Bilingualism
Mobility
Permeable Barrier
21. The growth of cities
Developing Countries
Urbanization
Refugee
Environmental Perception
22. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Polyglot
23. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Region
Pidgin
slang
Pull Factors
24. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Creole
Place
Popular Culture
25. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Environmental Racism
slang
Relocation Diffusion
Migration
26. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Developed Country
Death Rate
free trade
Barrio
27. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Non-Material Culture
Subculture
Acculturation
Environmental Perception
28. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Sex Ratio
free trade
Population Pyramid
29. One who can speak many languages
Refugee
Developed Country
Dependent People
Polyglot
30. Resources that can be renewed
Colonialism
Environmental Perception
Developed Country
Renewable Resources
31. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Thomas Malthus
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Group
32. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Ethnic Neighborhood
Culture
Renewable Resources
Human Geography
33. The raising of plants or animals
Refugee
Culture
Ethnoburb
Symbolic Landscape
34. Structures built in a traditional manner
Material Culture
Push factors
Dictatorship
Folk Architecture
35. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Folk Culture
free trade
Geo-demography
Subsistence Economy
36. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Geo-demography
Colonialism
Democracy
37. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Sex Ratio
Dialect
Economic System
38. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Language
Push factors
Ethnolect
Newly Industrialized Countries
39. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Isogloss
Mobility
Popular Culture
Democracy
40. Highly developed cultures
Ethnic Group
Culture
Migration
Civilization
41. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
Expansion Diffusion
Pidgin
42. Original inhabitants of an area
Ethnolect
Developed Country
Migration
Indigenous Culture
43. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Refugee
Acculturation
Folk Architecture
Dialect
44. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Determinism
Globalization
Language Family
45. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Material Culture
Barrio
Renewable Resources
Developed Country
46. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Population Pyramid
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pull Factors
Birthrate
47. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Push factors
Emigrate
Population Pyramid
Pull Factors
48. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Genocide
Pull Factors
Dialect
Environmental Perception
49. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Chain Migration
Natural Resources
Total Fertility Rate
50. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Creole
Subculture
Material Culture
Toponym