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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Folk Architecture
Developed Country
Ethnic Cleansing
Barrio
2. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Ghetto
Relocation Diffusion
Quota
3. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Cultural Simplification
Culture
Refugee
Birth Rate
4. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Language Family
Economic System
slang
Famine
5. Population geography
Geo-demography
Culture
Dependent People
Polyglot
6. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Colonialism
Language Branch
Permeable Barrier
7. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Language Family
Subsistence Economy
Acculturation
Eco-feminism
8. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Ethnolect
Migration
Dialect
Contagious Diffusion
9. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Import
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
Dictatorship
10. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Culture
Acculturation
Ethnic Group
Geography
11. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Assimilation
Place
Colonialism
Nation-State
12. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Total Fertility Rate
Dependent People
Pull Factors
13. The growth of cities
Isogloss
Subculture
Urbanization
Ethnic Cleansing
14. Goods brought into a country
Indigenous Culture
Human Geography
Contagious Diffusion
Import
15. Resources that can be renewed
Lingua Franca
Expansion Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Pidgin
16. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Folk Architecture
slang
Environmental Determinism
Region
17. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Lingua Franca
Literary Tradition
Pull Factors
18. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Agroforestry
Human Geography
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
19. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Indigenous Culture
Return Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
Chain Migration
20. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Developed Country
Contagious Diffusion
Globalization
Human Geography
21. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Material Culture
Chain Migration
Nonrenewable Resources
22. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Geo-demography
Ghetto
Dependent People
23. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Language Family
Ethnoburb
Cultural Diffusion
Lingua Franca
24. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Colonialism
Folk Architecture
Nation-State
Ethnic Cleansing
25. To send goods to another country for sale
Linguistic Refuge Area
Race
Export
Return Migration
26. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Possibilism
Birth Rate
Linguistic Refuge Area
27. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Globalization
Push factors
Import
Folk Culture
28. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Monarchy
Tariffs
Population Density
Dialect
29. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Creole
Pull Factors
Expansion Diffusion
30. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Environmental Perception
Material Culture
Urbanization
31. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Refugee
Total Fertility Rate
Agroforestry
Ethnic Group
32. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Ethnoburb
Thomas Malthus
Geo-demography
Expansion Diffusion
33. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Flag
Race
Total Fertility Rate
34. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Push factors
Emigrate
Language Branch
35. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Possibilism
Birth Rate
Culture
Nation-State
36. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Civilization
Cultural diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Urbanization
37. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Refugee
Cultural Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
38. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Agroforestry
Barrio
Language Branch
Newly Industrialized Countries
39. Government ruled by the people
Monarchy
Democracy
Environmental Racism
Barrio
40. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Developing Countries
Geo-demography
Birth Rate
Push factors
41. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Geo-demography
Death Rate
Race
Emigrate
42. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Return Migration
Dialect
Place
43. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Colonialism
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Flag
44. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Permeable Barrier
Acculturation
Linguistic Refuge Area
Contagious Diffusion
45. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Absorbing Barrier
Acculturation
Folk Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
46. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Monarchy
Emigrate
Agroforestry
47. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Bilingualism
Literary Tradition
Famine
Natural Resources
48. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pull Factors
Material Culture
Geo-demography
49. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Urbanization
Developing Countries
Dependent People
Thomas Malthus
50. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Chain Migration
Quota
Possibilism