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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 the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Refugee
Population Pyramid
Ethnoburb
Cultural Region
2. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Pidgin
Contagious Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Return Migration
3. The numerical ratio of males to females
Cultural Region
Birthrate
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Flag
4. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Developing Countries
Urbanization
Natural Resources
Popular Culture
5. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Language Branch
Language
Birthrate
6. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Contagious Diffusion
Total Fertility Rate
Economic System
Ethnic Flag
7. Structures built in a traditional manner
Permeable Barrier
Ethnoburb
Place
Folk Architecture
8. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Globalization
Thomas Malthus
Permeable Barrier
Culture
9. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Ethnic Flag
Import
Civilization
10. Population geography
Population Pyramid
Geo-demography
Monarchy
Emigrate
11. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Lingua Franca
Language Family
Nonrenewable Resources
Population Density
12. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Population Density
Geography
Pull Factors
Indigenous Culture
13. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Neighborhood
Globalization
Lingua Franca
14. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Bilingualism
Death Rate
Assimilation
Popular Culture
15. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Place
Barrio
Toponym
Non-Material Culture
16. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Population Density
Ethnic Flag
Subculture
Expansion Diffusion
17. A limitation on imports
Export
Population Pyramid
Quota
Total Fertility Rate
18. 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)
Toponym
Ethnic Neighborhood
Developed Country
19. 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
Stimulus Diffusion
Pidgin
Environmental Racism
Possibilism
20. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Symbolic Landscape
Nonrenewable Resources
Geography
Developing Countries
21. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Cultural Simplification
Culture
Developed Country
22. The growth of cities
free trade
Urbanization
Expansion Diffusion
Monarchy
23. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Language Branch
Democracy
free trade
Developed Country
24. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Subsistence Economy
Symbolic Landscape
Permeable Barrier
25. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Ethnic Neighborhood
Export
Folk Culture
26. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Barrio
Genocide
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
27. To send goods to another country for sale
Bilingualism
Export
Linguistic Refuge Area
Return Migration
28. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Refugee
Environmental Perception
Popular Culture
29. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Dependent People
Popular Culture
Language
Birth Rate
30. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Human Geography
Cultural diffusion
Colonialism
Cultural Simplification
31. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Globalization
Pidgin
Place
Urbanization
32. Place-name
Environmental Determinism
Absorbing Barrier
Toponym
Barrio
33. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Mobility
Ghetto
Population Pyramid
34. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Nation-State
Population Pyramid
free trade
Environmental Perception
35. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Tariffs
Pidgin
Subculture
Involuntary Migration
36. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
37. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Environmental Perception
Possibilism
Globalization
Subsistence Economy
38. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Return Migration
Subsistence Economy
Bilingualism
Culture
39. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Geography
Agroforestry
Sex Ratio
Cultural Region
40. Resources that can be renewed
Isogloss
Renewable Resources
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Racism
41. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Monarchy
Ethnoburb
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
42. The young and the old in a society who need care
Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Dependent People
Ethnic Neighborhood
43. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Death Rate
Ghetto
Push factors
Literary Tradition
44. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Return Migration
Developed Country
Permeable Barrier
Famine
45. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Involuntary Migration
Acculturation
Isogloss
46. A language with a writing system
Cultural Region
Dialect
Tariffs
Literary Tradition
47. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Refugee
Permeable Barrier
slang
Chain Migration
48. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Mobility
Thomas Malthus
Relocation Diffusion
49. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Relocation Diffusion
Popular Culture
Environmental Racism
Refugee
50. One who can speak many languages
Export
Bilingualism
Dialect
Polyglot