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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Death Rate
Agroforestry
Total Fertility Rate
Death Rate
2. The numerical ratio of males to females
Culture
Cultural Region
Famine
Sex Ratio
3. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Return Migration
Creole
Barrio
4. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Ethnic Group
5. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Nation-State
Environmental Determinism
Population Density
Population Pyramid
6. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Creole
Acculturation
Developed Country
7. The young and the old in a society who need care
Nation-State
Dependent People
Pidgin
Place
8. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnic Flag
Ethnolect
Thomas Malthus
Chain Migration
9. The growth of cities
Linguistic Refuge Area
Urbanization
free trade
Export
10. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Birth Rate
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
11. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Region
Birth Rate
Polyglot
Ethnoburb
12. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Racism
Emigrate
13. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Dependent People
Barrio
Ethnic Neighborhood
14. Massacre of a particular group
Geo-demography
Genocide
Colonialism
Return Migration
15. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Ethnolect
Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
16. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Renewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
Emigrate
Cultural Diffusion
17. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Population Density
Agroforestry
Race
Ethnic Cleansing
18. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Non-Material Culture
Death Rate
Ethnic Flag
Lingua Franca
19. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Involuntary Migration
Absorbing Barrier
Democracy
Subsistence Economy
20. A limitation on imports
Quota
Refugee
Import
Pull Factors
21. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Popular Culture
Geography
Dialect
22. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Nonrenewable Resources
Popular Culture
Region
Return Migration
23. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Environmental Racism
Toponym
Geo-demography
Acculturation
24. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Dependent People
Stimulus Diffusion
Colonialism
Geo-demography
25. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Population Density
Dialect
Dialect
Linguistic Refuge Area
26. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Subculture
Place
Human Geography
Economic System
27. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Cultural Region
slang
Total Fertility Rate
28. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
Ethnoburb
Race
29. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Sex Ratio
Region
Emigrate
Relocation Diffusion
30. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Cultural Diffusion
Folk Culture
Ghetto
Contagious Diffusion
31. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Famine
Monarchy
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
32. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Colonialism
Refugee
Agroforestry
33. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Region
Pull Factors
Ethnic Cleansing
Possibilism
34. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Language
free trade
Subsistence Economy
35. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ghetto
slang
Economic System
Ethnic Flag
36. Place-name
Genocide
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
Toponym
37. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Cleansing
Expansion Diffusion
38. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Sex Ratio
Expansion Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
Migration
39. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Agroforestry
Absorbing Barrier
Permeable Barrier
Expansion Diffusion
40. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Total Fertility Rate
Refugee
Geo-demography
Popular Culture
41. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Monarchy
Urbanization
Birth Rate
Permeable Barrier
42. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Subsistence Economy
Famine
Colonialism
Geo-demography
43. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Dialect
Environmental Racism
Export
44. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Perception
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
45. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Colonialism
Ethnic Neighborhood
Quota
Environmental Racism
46. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Polyglot
Renewable Resources
Indigenous Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
47. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Economic System
Ethnolect
48. To send goods to another country for sale
Death Rate
Developing Countries
Quota
Export
49. Structures built in a traditional manner
Return Migration
Folk Architecture
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
50. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Genocide
Permeable Barrier
Developing Countries
Natural Resources
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