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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Total Fertility Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Assimilation
2. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Geography
Subsistence Economy
Geo-demography
Developing Countries
3. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Thomas Malthus
Emigrate
Nonrenewable Resources
Dialect
4. Massacre of a particular group
Export
Genocide
Isogloss
Death Rate
5. Population geography
Ghetto
Polyglot
Population Density
Geo-demography
6. Structures built in a traditional manner
Indigenous Culture
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Genocide
7. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Isogloss
Assimilation
Possibilism
Ethnic Neighborhood
8. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Non-Material Culture
Export
Natural Resources
Language Family
9. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Expansion Diffusion
Famine
Chain Migration
Language Family
10. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Cultural diffusion
Mobility
free trade
Folk Culture
11. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Architecture
Involuntary Migration
Dialect
12. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nonrenewable Resources
Developed Country
Creole
Nation-State
13. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Agroforestry
Bilingualism
Mobility
14. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Developing Countries
Tariffs
Nation-State
Region
15. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Famine
Push factors
Environmental Racism
Ethnolect
16. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Bilingualism
Permeable Barrier
Natural Resources
17. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Monarchy
Dialect
Polyglot
18. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Agroforestry
Export
Death Rate
19. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Language Branch
Eco-feminism
Contagious Diffusion
Emigrate
20. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Environmental Racism
Genocide
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Subsistence Economy
21. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ethnoburb
Import
Push factors
Bilingualism
22. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Civilization
Cultural diffusion
Place
Nonrenewable Resources
23. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Pull Factors
Pidgin
Contagious Diffusion
Isogloss
24. Highly developed cultures
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Civilization
Geography
25. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Ethnolect
Human Geography
Literary Tradition
Death Rate
26. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Race
Return Migration
Eco-feminism
Acculturation
27. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Possibilism
Cultural Region
Barrio
28. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Cleansing
Nonrenewable Resources
Bilingualism
Export
29. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Birth Rate
Environmental Determinism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Barrio
30. 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
Dictatorship
Mobility
Race
Assimilation
31. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Bilingualism
Symbolic Landscape
Material Culture
Barrio
32. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Population Density
Lingua Franca
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Group
33. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Push factors
Stimulus Diffusion
Developing Countries
Culture
34. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Migration
Cultural Simplification
Possibilism
Push factors
35. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Renewable Resources
Popular Culture
Economic System
Famine
36. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Import
Environmental Determinism
slang
Non-Material Culture
37. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Tariffs
Colonialism
Developed Country
Dialect
38. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Assimilation
Creole
Urbanization
Language Branch
39. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Environmental Determinism
Literary Tradition
Subsistence Economy
Culture
40. Resources that can be renewed
Contagious Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
Dialect
41. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Thomas Malthus
Emigrate
Urbanization
Geography
42. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Economic System
Population Pyramid
Quota
Cultural Simplification
43. Place-name
Renewable Resources
Toponym
Language Family
free trade
44. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Dependent People
Globalization
Population Density
Refugee
45. The young and the old in a society who need care
Barrio
Language Family
Dependent People
Geography
46. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Migration
free trade
Newly Industrialized Countries
Sex Ratio
47. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Globalization
Civilization
Pull Factors
Ghetto
48. A limitation on imports
Chain Migration
Ethnoburb
Quota
Nonrenewable Resources
49. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Barrio
Place
Ethnoburb
Death Rate
50. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Sex Ratio
Permeable Barrier
Ethnic Neighborhood
Agroforestry