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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Highly developed cultures
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Civilization
Lingua Franca
2. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Cultural diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnoburb
3. A stabilized population created when an average of only 2 children per couple survive to adulthood so that the number of births equals the number of deaths
Symbolic Landscape
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Acculturation
4. Structures built in a traditional manner
Refugee
Push factors
Agroforestry
Folk Architecture
5. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Tariffs
Indigenous Culture
Creole
Ethnic Cleansing
6. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Language Family
Absorbing Barrier
Birth Rate
Acculturation
7. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Return Migration
Lingua Franca
Race
free trade
8. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Contagious Diffusion
Ghetto
Creole
Permeable Barrier
9. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Cultural Diffusion
Developed Country
10. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Natural Resources
Population Density
Cultural Diffusion
Population Pyramid
11. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Globalization
Dialect
Material Culture
Absorbing Barrier
12. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Thomas Malthus
Pidgin
Barrio
Popular Culture
13. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Culture
Permeable Barrier
Newly Industrialized Countries
14. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Ethnic Group
Dialect
Assimilation
15. Government ruled by the people
Environmental Racism
Genocide
Democracy
Ethnic Cleansing
16. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Chain Migration
Dialect
Environmental Perception
Race
17. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Symbolic Landscape
Emigrate
Export
18. Taxes on imports or exports
Human Geography
Contagious Diffusion
Tariffs
Sex Ratio
19. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Stimulus Diffusion
slang
Thomas Malthus
20. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Acculturation
Involuntary Migration
Language Family
Cultural diffusion
21. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Place
Creole
Cultural Region
Linguistic Refuge Area
22. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Cultural Region
Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
23. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Genocide
Language Family
Ethnic Cleansing
24. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Migration
Material Culture
Race
Population Density
25. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dictatorship
Dependent People
Barrio
Expansion Diffusion
26. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Isogloss
Indigenous Culture
Democracy
Environmental Determinism
27. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Creole
Death Rate
28. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Polyglot
29. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Creole
Ethnolect
Lingua Franca
Dictatorship
30. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Colonialism
Ethnic Neighborhood
Globalization
Lingua Franca
31. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Nation-State
Famine
Thomas Malthus
32. The numerical ratio of males to females
Culture
Dictatorship
Subculture
Sex Ratio
33. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Subculture
Population Pyramid
Language Branch
Globalization
34. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Dialect
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
35. 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
Bilingualism
Assimilation
Globalization
Dictatorship
36. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Lingua Franca
Linguistic Refuge Area
37. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Globalization
Push factors
Subsistence Economy
Stimulus Diffusion
38. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Nonrenewable Resources
slang
Culture
39. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Birth Rate
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Ethnic Flag
40. 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
Folk Culture
Economic System
Material Culture
41. The growth of cities
Subsistence Economy
Nation-State
Import
Urbanization
42. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Quota
Population Density
Environmental Racism
Creole
43. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Genocide
Developed Country
Quota
44. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Famine
Import
45. A language with a writing system
Economic System
Mobility
Contagious Diffusion
Literary Tradition
46. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Relocation Diffusion
Import
Nation-State
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
47. Population geography
Geography
Refugee
Geo-demography
Cultural Region
48. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Cultural Region
Race
Death Rate
Language Family
49. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Literary Tradition
free trade
Developed Country
Involuntary Migration
50. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Language
Involuntary Migration
Economic System
Refugee