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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Determinism
Indigenous Culture
Culture
2. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Contagious Diffusion
Mobility
Agroforestry
Birth Rate
3. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Folk Architecture
Dictatorship
Permeable Barrier
Involuntary Migration
4. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Quota
Globalization
Cultural diffusion
5. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Language
Acculturation
Return Migration
Ethnic Group
6. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Lingua Franca
slang
Geography
Culture
7. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Involuntary Migration
Material Culture
Economic System
Absorbing Barrier
8. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Toponym
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Flag
9. Highly developed cultures
Indigenous Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Civilization
Sex Ratio
10. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ghetto
Subsistence Economy
Population Density
Ethnic Group
11. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Nonrenewable Resources
Symbolic Landscape
Human Geography
Cultural diffusion
12. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Urbanization
Developing Countries
Death Rate
Emigrate
13. 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
Chain Migration
Monarchy
Popular Culture
Possibilism
14. Goods brought into a country
Import
Assimilation
Urbanization
Developing Countries
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Literary Tradition
Mobility
Famine
Birthrate
16. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Monarchy
Toponym
Environmental Perception
Pull Factors
17. Massacre of a particular group
Chain Migration
Emigrate
Genocide
Region
18. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Ethnic Flag
Ghetto
Linguistic Refuge Area
19. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Indigenous Culture
Renewable Resources
Dialect
Cultural Region
20. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Lingua Franca
Export
Language
21. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Material Culture
Refugee
Ethnic Group
22. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Thomas Malthus
Newly Industrialized Countries
Human Geography
23. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Isogloss
Ethnoburb
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Death Rate
24. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Expansion Diffusion
Subculture
Lingua Franca
25. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Urbanization
free trade
Permeable Barrier
26. A government ruled by a king or queen
Assimilation
Monarchy
Material Culture
Migration
27. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Culture
Language Branch
Creole
28. Place-name
Environmental Determinism
Tariffs
Toponym
Urbanization
29. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Material Culture
Race
Acculturation
Place
30. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Environmental Determinism
Material Culture
Death Rate
Popular Culture
31. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Ghetto
Lingua Franca
Nation-State
32. To send goods to another country for sale
Death Rate
Export
Assimilation
Language Branch
33. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Economic System
free trade
Possibilism
34. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Sex Ratio
free trade
Environmental Racism
Nation-State
35. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Culture
Natural Resources
Language Branch
Geography
36. 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
Literary Tradition
Return Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
37. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Refugee
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
38. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Bilingualism
Ethnic Group
Linguistic Refuge Area
39. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Ethnolect
Polyglot
Population Pyramid
40. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Non-Material Culture
Quota
Renewable Resources
41. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Sex Ratio
Human Geography
Linguistic Refuge Area
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
42. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
Pidgin
43. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Barrio
Ethnic Flag
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
44. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Mobility
Ethnic Neighborhood
Symbolic Landscape
45. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Ethnic Cleansing
Non-Material Culture
Birth Rate
Cultural Region
46. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Developing Countries
Birthrate
Creole
Renewable Resources
47. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Renewable Resources
Place
Colonialism
Chain Migration
48. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Economic System
Environmental Perception
Export
49. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Language
Pidgin
Eco-feminism
Thomas Malthus
50. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Famine
Chain Migration
Mobility