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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Language Branch
Thomas Malthus
Birth Rate
Indigenous Culture
2. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Perception
Language Family
Bilingualism
3. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Absorbing Barrier
Globalization
Pull Factors
Creole
4. Goods brought into a country
Refugee
Ethnic Cleansing
Import
Permeable Barrier
5. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Creole
Geography
Ghetto
Monarchy
6. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Quota
Place
Dialect
Cultural Diffusion
7. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Death Rate
Subsistence Economy
Non-Material Culture
Race
8. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Isogloss
Literary Tradition
9. Population geography
Ethnoburb
Import
Agroforestry
Geo-demography
10. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Culture
Refugee
Lingua Franca
11. Place-name
Colonialism
Toponym
Sex Ratio
Export
12. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Creole
Geo-demography
Pull Factors
Non-Material Culture
13. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Ghetto
Subsistence Economy
Ethnolect
Culture
14. 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
Literary Tradition
Possibilism
Contagious Diffusion
Dialect
15. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Death Rate
Thomas Malthus
16. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Chain Migration
Agroforestry
17. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Race
Push factors
Mobility
Environmental Racism
18. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Folk Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Assimilation
Symbolic Landscape
19. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Population Density
Natural Resources
Human Geography
Culture
20. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Literary Tradition
Developing Countries
Ethnolect
21. Highly developed cultures
Death Rate
Civilization
Agroforestry
Environmental Determinism
22. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Developed Country
free trade
Migration
Ethnolect
23. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ethnic Cleansing
Geography
Culture
Push factors
24. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Dialect
Famine
Ethnic Group
Economic System
25. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Nation-State
Race
Death Rate
Ghetto
26. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Toponym
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Cleansing
27. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ghetto
slang
Place
28. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Tariffs
Nation-State
Ethnolect
Death Rate
29. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Return Migration
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
Mobility
30. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Race
Emigrate
Dialect
Birthrate
31. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Nonrenewable Resources
Dependent People
Acculturation
Contagious Diffusion
32. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Assimilation
Bilingualism
Quota
33. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Lingua Franca
Import
Ethnoburb
34. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Death Rate
Region
Place
Absorbing Barrier
35. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Urbanization
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Monarchy
36. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Creole
Environmental Racism
Bilingualism
Newly Industrialized Countries
37. One who can speak many languages
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Nonrenewable Resources
Polyglot
38. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Environmental Determinism
Monarchy
Cultural diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
39. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Civilization
Assimilation
Ethnic Group
Mobility
40. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Refugee
free trade
Mobility
Assimilation
41. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Globalization
Expansion Diffusion
Culture
Cultural Region
42. To send goods to another country for sale
Assimilation
Export
Geography
Ethnic Cleansing
43. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Indigenous Culture
Literary Tradition
Return Migration
Cultural Diffusion
44. The growth of cities
Culture
Urbanization
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Flag
45. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Environmental Perception
Contagious Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
46. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dependent People
Polyglot
Barrio
Non-Material Culture
47. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Environmental Perception
Population Pyramid
Nation-State
48. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Cultural Diffusion
Dialect
Return Migration
49. Massacre of a particular group
Assimilation
Symbolic Landscape
Place
Genocide
50. Government ruled by the people
Folk Culture
Democracy
Ethnoburb
Involuntary Migration