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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A language with a writing system
Linguistic Refuge Area
Non-Material Culture
Literary Tradition
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Creole
Permeable Barrier
Ethnic Group
Developing Countries
3. The young and the old in a society who need care
Migration
Race
Dependent People
Globalization
4. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Contagious Diffusion
Globalization
Pidgin
Geography
5. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Import
Population Density
Urbanization
6. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Culture
Migration
Language
Stimulus Diffusion
7. The numerical ratio of males to females
Thomas Malthus
Cultural Simplification
Dialect
Sex Ratio
8. 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
Contagious Diffusion
Ghetto
Possibilism
Permeable Barrier
9. 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
Permeable Barrier
Contagious Diffusion
Dictatorship
Democracy
10. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Environmental Racism
Cultural Region
Ethnolect
Quota
11. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Emigrate
free trade
Globalization
Developing Countries
12. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Chain Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Assimilation
Permeable Barrier
13. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Creole
Dictatorship
Democracy
Economic System
14. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Culture
Environmental Racism
Expansion Diffusion
Place
15. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Pidgin
Subsistence Economy
Folk Culture
Acculturation
16. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Democracy
Cultural Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Involuntary Migration
17. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Death Rate
Famine
Globalization
Absorbing Barrier
18. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Return Migration
Human Geography
Migration
Ethnolect
19. Place-name
Expansion Diffusion
Toponym
Total Fertility Rate
Permeable Barrier
20. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Contagious Diffusion
Isogloss
Pull Factors
Thomas Malthus
21. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Assimilation
Dialect
Human Geography
22. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Bilingualism
Involuntary Migration
23. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Pull Factors
Dialect
Colonialism
Environmental Racism
24. Massacre of a particular group
Globalization
Monarchy
Genocide
Democracy
25. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Isogloss
Agroforestry
Total Fertility Rate
26. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Migration
Language
27. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Non-Material Culture
Eco-feminism
Lingua Franca
Emigrate
28. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Permeable Barrier
free trade
Push factors
Isogloss
29. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Birth Rate
Symbolic Landscape
Toponym
Thomas Malthus
30. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Thomas Malthus
slang
Chain Migration
Colonialism
31. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
Developing Countries
32. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Agroforestry
Death Rate
Cultural Simplification
33. Population geography
Geo-demography
Import
Population Pyramid
Total Fertility Rate
34. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Urbanization
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dialect
35. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
free trade
Symbolic Landscape
Migration
36. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Return Migration
Environmental Racism
Globalization
Language Branch
37. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Polyglot
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language
Globalization
38. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Geography
Region
Globalization
Ethnic Cleansing
39. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Geography
Refugee
Cultural Diffusion
Dictatorship
40. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Dialect
Cultural Region
Geo-demography
41. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Toponym
Migration
Birthrate
Birth Rate
42. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Assimilation
Nonrenewable Resources
Non-Material Culture
43. Goods brought into a country
Import
Democracy
Mobility
Total Fertility Rate
44. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ghetto
Export
45. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Agroforestry
Language Family
Ghetto
Colonialism
46. A government ruled by a king or queen
Creole
Monarchy
slang
Environmental Racism
47. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ethnic Group
Eco-feminism
Environmental Perception
Dialect
48. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Developed Country
Environmental Determinism
Literary Tradition
Import
49. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Ethnic Group
Pidgin
Civilization
Ethnolect
50. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Urbanization
Tariffs
Refugee
Culture