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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Migration
Material Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Thomas Malthus
Population Density
Expansion Diffusion
3. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Nonrenewable Resources
Non-Material Culture
4. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Symbolic Landscape
Dialect
Ethnic Group
5. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Population Pyramid
Barrio
Developed Country
Dialect
6. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Globalization
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Dialect
7. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Environmental Racism
Cultural Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
8. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Culture
Literary Tradition
Mobility
Cultural diffusion
9. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Refugee
Lingua Franca
10. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Sex Ratio
Emigrate
Language Family
Dialect
11. 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
Push factors
Globalization
Possibilism
Death Rate
12. Government ruled by the people
slang
Democracy
Permeable Barrier
Birth Rate
13. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Human Geography
Environmental Determinism
Famine
Cultural Region
14. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Stimulus Diffusion
Ghetto
Cultural Region
Environmental Determinism
15. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Possibilism
Developed Country
Geography
Globalization
16. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Eco-feminism
Creole
Relocation Diffusion
17. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Region
Cultural diffusion
Possibilism
free trade
18. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Developed Country
Agroforestry
Geo-demography
19. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
Emigrate
Contagious Diffusion
20. 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
Culture
Globalization
Dictatorship
Refugee
21. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dictatorship
Nation-State
Famine
Dependent People
22. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
Culture
Symbolic Landscape
23. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Language
Eco-feminism
Subculture
Relocation Diffusion
24. A limitation on imports
Contagious Diffusion
Quota
Barrio
Famine
25. The numerical ratio of males to females
Culture
Isogloss
Developed Country
Sex Ratio
26. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Toponym
Total Fertility Rate
Eco-feminism
27. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Permeable Barrier
Environmental Determinism
Ethnolect
Chain Migration
28. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Death Rate
Return Migration
Human Geography
Involuntary Migration
29. One who can speak many languages
Acculturation
Polyglot
Refugee
Dialect
30. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Possibilism
Developing Countries
Literary Tradition
Birthrate
31. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ethnolect
Eco-feminism
Birth Rate
Death Rate
32. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Dialect
Eco-feminism
Economic System
33. Massacre of a particular group
Refugee
Birth Rate
Developed Country
Genocide
34. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Developed Country
Literary Tradition
Toponym
Subsistence Economy
35. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Environmental Perception
Symbolic Landscape
Emigrate
Ethnoburb
36. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Urbanization
Contagious Diffusion
Globalization
Thomas Malthus
37. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Non-Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Chain Migration
Material Culture
38. Structures built in a traditional manner
Quota
Push factors
Folk Architecture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
39. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Simplification
Cultural diffusion
Export
40. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Dialect
Pull Factors
41. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Population Pyramid
Expansion Diffusion
Folk Culture
Quota
42. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Nation-State
Colonialism
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
43. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Possibilism
Dialect
Subculture
Cultural diffusion
44. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
Involuntary Migration
Human Geography
45. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Urbanization
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Birthrate
46. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Cleansing
Globalization
Population Density
47. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Toponym
Popular Culture
Subculture
Globalization
48. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ghetto
Isogloss
Ethnolect
Push factors
49. Taxes on imports or exports
Import
Tariffs
Environmental Racism
Death Rate
50. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Contagious Diffusion
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area