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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Cleansing
Birthrate
Literary Tradition
2. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Birthrate
Economic System
Dialect
Race
3. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Emigrate
Birthrate
Population Pyramid
Language Family
4. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Involuntary Migration
Chain Migration
Barrio
Cultural Region
5. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Birthrate
Toponym
Polyglot
Absorbing Barrier
6. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Subculture
Population Pyramid
Cultural Region
7. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Involuntary Migration
Possibilism
Creole
Stimulus Diffusion
8. Structures built in a traditional manner
Cultural diffusion
Export
Globalization
Folk Architecture
9. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Geography
Globalization
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnolect
10. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Ethnic Flag
Return Migration
Push factors
11. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Involuntary Migration
Place
Ethnic Group
Import
12. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
Colonialism
Total Fertility Rate
13. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Famine
Cultural Simplification
Language Branch
Death Rate
14. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Genocide
Cultural Simplification
Linguistic Refuge Area
15. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Language Branch
Culture
Push factors
16. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Emigrate
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
17. Population geography
Geo-demography
Developing Countries
Non-Material Culture
Death Rate
18. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Culture
Environmental Racism
Colonialism
Push factors
19. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Population Pyramid
Place
Folk Culture
20. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
slang
Relocation Diffusion
Geo-demography
Race
21. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Newly Industrialized Countries
Push factors
Lingua Franca
22. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Bilingualism
Contagious Diffusion
Isogloss
Cultural diffusion
23. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Toponym
Developed Country
Developing Countries
Isogloss
24. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Genocide
Linguistic Refuge Area
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
25. One who can speak many languages
Birth Rate
Assimilation
Polyglot
Nation-State
26. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Refugee
Folk Culture
Race
27. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Cultural diffusion
Language
Return Migration
28. Highly developed cultures
Relocation Diffusion
Language Branch
Civilization
Import
29. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Developed Country
Environmental Racism
Dialect
Region
30. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Literary Tradition
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
Dictatorship
31. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Developing Countries
Ethnic Neighborhood
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnic Group
32. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Barrio
Expansion Diffusion
Language Family
33. 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
Race
Culture
Possibilism
Subsistence Economy
34. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Agroforestry
Nonrenewable Resources
free trade
35. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Relocation Diffusion
Globalization
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Racism
36. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Racism
37. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Population Density
Folk Culture
Eco-feminism
Ghetto
38. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Monarchy
slang
Expansion Diffusion
39. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Environmental Racism
Culture
Geo-demography
Colonialism
40. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Neighborhood
Relocation Diffusion
Economic System
41. The young and the old in a society who need care
Material Culture
Subculture
Language
Dependent People
42. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Culture
Ethnic Flag
Population Density
Material Culture
43. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Material Culture
Cultural diffusion
Place
Acculturation
44. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Environmental Determinism
Language Family
Migration
Dictatorship
45. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Language
Nonrenewable Resources
Toponym
46. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Dialect
Assimilation
Renewable Resources
Expansion Diffusion
47. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Culture
Permeable Barrier
Ethnoburb
Environmental Perception
48. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Economic System
Sex Ratio
Dialect
49. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Birth Rate
free trade
Acculturation
Natural Resources
50. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Literary Tradition
Ethnoburb
Dependent People
Ghetto