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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Cultural Region
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Human Geography
2. Population geography
Geo-demography
Mobility
Toponym
slang
3. Government ruled by the people
Non-Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
Democracy
Material Culture
4. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Group
Symbolic Landscape
Total Fertility Rate
Race
5. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Import
Creole
Death Rate
6. Massacre of a particular group
Creole
Genocide
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
7. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Barrio
Material Culture
Possibilism
Lingua Franca
8. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Export
Ethnoburb
Population Pyramid
Ethnic Cleansing
9. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Ghetto
Economic System
Environmental Perception
Nonrenewable Resources
10. Highly developed cultures
Assimilation
Colonialism
Civilization
Geo-demography
11. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
12. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Colonialism
Birth Rate
Export
Death Rate
13. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Culture
Language Family
Eco-feminism
Dependent People
14. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Refugee
Ethnoburb
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Culture
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Folk Culture
Population Pyramid
Agroforestry
16. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Population Pyramid
Human Geography
Stimulus Diffusion
Nation-State
17. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Export
Thomas Malthus
Toponym
Ghetto
18. A limitation on imports
Lingua Franca
Sex Ratio
Quota
Thomas Malthus
19. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Region
Literary Tradition
Acculturation
Place
20. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
Migration
Return Migration
21. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Polyglot
Absorbing Barrier
Language
Refugee
22. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Creole
Stimulus Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Urbanization
23. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Refugee
Refugee
Dialect
24. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Determinism
Ethnolect
Ethnoburb
Environmental Racism
25. 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
Possibilism
Involuntary Migration
Geography
Acculturation
26. The young and the old in a society who need care
Subsistence Economy
Democracy
Nation-State
Dependent People
27. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Quota
Geo-demography
Civilization
Developing Countries
28. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Quota
Famine
Creole
Globalization
29. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Ghetto
Language
Expansion Diffusion
30. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Total Fertility Rate
Developed Country
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
31. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Eco-feminism
Relocation Diffusion
Birthrate
Genocide
32. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Symbolic Landscape
Dialect
Lingua Franca
Death Rate
33. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Cultural Simplification
Language Branch
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
34. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Genocide
Permeable Barrier
Isogloss
35. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Chain Migration
Polyglot
Natural Resources
Non-Material Culture
36. Taxes on imports or exports
Import
Linguistic Refuge Area
Lingua Franca
Tariffs
37. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
free trade
Migration
Acculturation
Lingua Franca
38. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Expansion Diffusion
39. Structures built in a traditional manner
Literary Tradition
Permeable Barrier
Folk Architecture
Democracy
40. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Subsistence Economy
Famine
Ethnic Group
41. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Civilization
Pidgin
Ethnic Group
42. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Migration
Literary Tradition
Language Branch
Return Migration
43. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Ethnic Flag
Agroforestry
Geography
Death Rate
44. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Import
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
45. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Group
Eco-feminism
Contagious Diffusion
46. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Dependent People
Environmental Racism
Chain Migration
Export
47. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Globalization
Emigrate
Ethnic Group
48. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Non-Material Culture
Birth Rate
Relocation Diffusion
Human Geography
49. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
Emigrate
Subculture
50. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Isogloss
Ethnic Neighborhood
Possibilism
Bilingualism
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