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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Import
Ethnolect
Push factors
Chain Migration
2. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Dialect
Subculture
Natural Resources
Geography
3. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Human Geography
Relocation Diffusion
Language Family
4. A language with a writing system
Death Rate
Linguistic Refuge Area
free trade
Literary Tradition
5. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Environmental Perception
Environmental Determinism
Language Branch
Death Rate
6. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Nation-State
Symbolic Landscape
Culture
7. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Pull Factors
Absorbing Barrier
Nation-State
Total Fertility Rate
8. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Determinism
Folk Culture
Push factors
9. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Genocide
Lingua Franca
Birth Rate
Monarchy
10. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Population Pyramid
Emigrate
Culture
Monarchy
11. Structures built in a traditional manner
Migration
Thomas Malthus
Folk Architecture
Return Migration
12. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural Region
Death Rate
Migration
Absorbing Barrier
13. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Subculture
Cultural Simplification
free trade
Dialect
14. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Eco-feminism
Isogloss
Geography
Barrio
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Language
Famine
Region
Barrio
16. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Birth Rate
Creole
Popular Culture
Dialect
17. 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
Geo-demography
Region
Export
Dictatorship
18. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Region
Environmental Racism
Tariffs
Import
19. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Bilingualism
Pull Factors
Colonialism
Population Density
20. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Literary Tradition
Import
Environmental Racism
21. A limitation on imports
Human Geography
Migration
Quota
Globalization
22. Goods brought into a country
Ethnolect
Monarchy
Globalization
Import
23. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Language
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Perception
Cultural Simplification
24. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Ghetto
Language Family
Dictatorship
25. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Thomas Malthus
Literary Tradition
Dialect
26. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Contagious Diffusion
Colonialism
Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
27. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Region
Refugee
Place
28. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Population Density
Relocation Diffusion
Dialect
Environmental Racism
29. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Toponym
Genocide
30. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Globalization
Eco-feminism
Pidgin
Environmental Perception
31. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Barrio
Cultural Region
Indigenous Culture
Globalization
32. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Export
Democracy
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Migration
33. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Geography
Popular Culture
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
34. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Relocation Diffusion
Famine
Race
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
35. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Birth Rate
Acculturation
Assimilation
Environmental Racism
36. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subculture
Colonialism
Agroforestry
Subsistence Economy
37. Taxes on imports or exports
Absorbing Barrier
Tariffs
Renewable Resources
Colonialism
38. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Place
Lingua Franca
Barrio
39. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
Acculturation
Absorbing Barrier
40. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Death Rate
Polyglot
Eco-feminism
Isogloss
41. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Region
Developed Country
42. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Creole
Folk Culture
Bilingualism
Subsistence Economy
43. Population geography
Linguistic Refuge Area
Race
Language
Geo-demography
44. Highly developed cultures
Dialect
Environmental Racism
Environmental Determinism
Civilization
45. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Export
Race
Developing Countries
46. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Globalization
Dictatorship
Push factors
Nonrenewable Resources
47. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Agroforestry
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnoburb
48. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
Pidgin
Sex Ratio
49. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Agroforestry
Quota
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
50. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Stimulus Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Push factors
Ghetto