SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Cultural Geography
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
geography
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Birthrate
Tariffs
free trade
2. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
Refugee
Geo-demography
3. The growth of cities
Genocide
Urbanization
Pidgin
Possibilism
4. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Cultural Simplification
Chain Migration
Genocide
Assimilation
5. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural Region
6. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Polyglot
Language Family
Toponym
Eco-feminism
7. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Migration
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
8. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Import
Cultural Region
Return Migration
9. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Indigenous Culture
Possibilism
Involuntary Migration
Dictatorship
10. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Branch
11. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
slang
Eco-feminism
Permeable Barrier
Quota
12. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Folk Architecture
Dictatorship
Ethnic Group
Culture
13. 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
Birth Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Mobility
14. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
15. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Toponym
Language Family
Ethnolect
slang
16. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Geography
Involuntary Migration
Bilingualism
Economic System
17. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Bilingualism
Mobility
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
Birth Rate
Dictatorship
Developed Country
Return Migration
19. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Architecture
Nation-State
20. The young and the old in a society who need care
Tariffs
Dependent People
Permeable Barrier
Sex Ratio
21. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Isogloss
Literary Tradition
Bilingualism
Return Migration
22. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Globalization
Cultural Region
Population Pyramid
23. A limitation on imports
Tariffs
Language Family
Stimulus Diffusion
Quota
24. Population geography
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
Geo-demography
Literary Tradition
25. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Quota
Globalization
Renewable Resources
Dependent People
26. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Democracy
Acculturation
Ethnic Neighborhood
Famine
27. One who can speak many languages
Symbolic Landscape
Material Culture
Polyglot
Bilingualism
28. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Nation-State
Cultural Simplification
Ethnolect
Total Fertility Rate
29. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Subculture
Thomas Malthus
Geo-demography
30. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Culture
Environmental Racism
Mobility
Ghetto
31. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Cultural Diffusion
Popular Culture
Agroforestry
Contagious Diffusion
32. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Mobility
Relocation Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
33. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Birthrate
34. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Civilization
Mobility
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
35. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Nonrenewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Culture
Chain Migration
36. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Nation-State
Chain Migration
Barrio
Ethnic Group
37. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Ghetto
Environmental Determinism
Absorbing Barrier
38. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Relocation Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
Contagious Diffusion
Migration
39. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Nonrenewable Resources
Stimulus Diffusion
Isogloss
Nation-State
40. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Culture
Non-Material Culture
Birthrate
Human Geography
41. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
Geo-demography
42. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Language
free trade
Absorbing Barrier
Economic System
43. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Urbanization
Tariffs
Region
44. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Tariffs
Death Rate
Permeable Barrier
Polyglot
45. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Eco-feminism
Export
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
46. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Total Fertility Rate
Creole
Non-Material Culture
Human Geography
47. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Genocide
48. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Barrio
Ethnic Cleansing
Linguistic Refuge Area
Quota
49. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Relocation Diffusion
Export
Cultural Region
Subsistence Economy
50. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Geo-demography
Geography
Monarchy
Migration