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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Renewable Resources
Developed Country
Birthrate
2. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Return Migration
Acculturation
Environmental Perception
3. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Polyglot
Subculture
Possibilism
Return Migration
4. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Thomas Malthus
Refugee
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Determinism
5. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Thomas Malthus
Globalization
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnoburb
Export
Race
Cultural Region
7. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Assimilation
Ethnolect
Contagious Diffusion
8. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Sex Ratio
Environmental Racism
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
9. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
Agroforestry
Ethnic Cleansing
10. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Language Family
Developed Country
Cultural diffusion
Human Geography
11. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Material Culture
Mobility
Polyglot
Pull Factors
12. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Birthrate
Monarchy
Eco-feminism
Colonialism
13. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ethnic Neighborhood
Indigenous Culture
Birth Rate
Environmental Racism
14. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Cultural diffusion
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
15. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Emigrate
Natural Resources
Export
Birthrate
16. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Isogloss
Ethnic Cleansing
17. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Subculture
Democracy
Push factors
18. 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
Export
Assimilation
Dictatorship
19. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Subculture
Monarchy
Bilingualism
20. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Relocation Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
Lingua Franca
Death Rate
21. 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
Colonialism
Acculturation
Possibilism
Death Rate
22. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Ethnic Neighborhood
Isogloss
Cultural Diffusion
Urbanization
23. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Developing Countries
Environmental Racism
Death Rate
free trade
24. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Folk Architecture
Refugee
Famine
Ethnic Group
25. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Thomas Malthus
Migration
Polyglot
Dialect
26. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Ghetto
Population Density
Ethnoburb
Import
27. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Geo-demography
Famine
Emigrate
Material Culture
28. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Permeable Barrier
Isogloss
29. A language with a writing system
Pull Factors
Toponym
Region
Literary Tradition
30. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Death Rate
Dialect
Ethnolect
Folk Culture
31. To send goods to another country for sale
Language
Emigrate
Renewable Resources
Export
32. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Toponym
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Export
33. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Developing Countries
Sex Ratio
Human Geography
Non-Material Culture
34. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Ethnic Cleansing
Migration
Globalization
35. A limitation on imports
Renewable Resources
Language Branch
Ethnoburb
Quota
36. Population geography
Absorbing Barrier
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
Isogloss
37. Goods brought into a country
Colonialism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Import
Economic System
38. Original inhabitants of an area
Culture
Indigenous Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Absorbing Barrier
39. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Isogloss
Return Migration
Involuntary Migration
Popular Culture
40. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Assimilation
Chain Migration
Civilization
Expansion Diffusion
41. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Natural Resources
Dictatorship
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
42. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Globalization
Language
Famine
Barrio
43. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Racism
Push factors
44. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Popular Culture
Pull Factors
Language
45. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Human Geography
Birthrate
slang
Renewable Resources
46. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Renewable Resources
Economic System
Cultural diffusion
Birth Rate
47. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Ethnic Flag
Nation-State
free trade
Agroforestry
48. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Folk Culture
Refugee
Ethnic Flag
Region
49. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Mobility
Tariffs
Refugee
Ghetto
50. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Cultural Region
Language
Language Branch
Place
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