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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Non-Material Culture
free trade
Globalization
2. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Genocide
Ghetto
Death Rate
Place
3. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Dependent People
Language Family
Ethnoburb
4. The raising of plants or animals
Natural Resources
Culture
Push factors
Language Family
5. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Cultural Simplification
Barrio
Material Culture
Ghetto
6. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Place
Assimilation
Emigrate
Stimulus Diffusion
7. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Ethnic Group
Developed Country
Geography
Folk Culture
8. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Ethnic Cleansing
Geography
Isogloss
Acculturation
9. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Environmental Perception
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Group
10. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Place
free trade
Agroforestry
11. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Environmental Racism
Cultural diffusion
free trade
Birthrate
12. 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
Ethnic Flag
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Nation-State
Birth Rate
13. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Economic System
Push factors
Colonialism
Geography
14. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Group
Possibilism
Literary Tradition
15. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Cultural diffusion
Death Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
16. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Pull Factors
Globalization
Race
Environmental Determinism
17. The growth of cities
Environmental Racism
Contagious Diffusion
Developing Countries
Urbanization
18. Goods brought into a country
Agroforestry
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Import
Expansion Diffusion
19. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Nonrenewable Resources
Death Rate
Civilization
Stimulus Diffusion
20. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Pyramid
Human Geography
Death Rate
21. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Monarchy
Language
Agroforestry
22. Massacre of a particular group
Language
Genocide
Non-Material Culture
Developing Countries
23. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Lingua Franca
Environmental Perception
Renewable Resources
Human Geography
24. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Language
Ethnolect
Developed Country
Non-Material Culture
25. A language with a writing system
Ethnic Neighborhood
Literary Tradition
Geo-demography
Environmental Perception
26. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Developed Country
Subsistence Economy
Urbanization
Language Branch
27. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Colonialism
Toponym
Material Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
28. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Thomas Malthus
Folk Culture
Culture
Absorbing Barrier
29. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Push factors
Language
Cultural Simplification
Contagious Diffusion
30. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Expansion Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Colonialism
Non-Material Culture
31. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Nation-State
Language
Race
Population Density
32. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Urbanization
Death Rate
Ghetto
Material Culture
33. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Culture
Region
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Group
34. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Monarchy
Isogloss
Creole
35. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Agroforestry
Involuntary Migration
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Determinism
36. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Monarchy
Developed Country
Return Migration
slang
37. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Import
Toponym
Ethnic Flag
38. Highly developed cultures
Agroforestry
Cultural diffusion
Civilization
Refugee
39. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Eco-feminism
Dialect
Lingua Franca
Linguistic Refuge Area
40. To send goods to another country for sale
Non-Material Culture
Thomas Malthus
Export
Pidgin
41. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birthrate
Chain Migration
Polyglot
Birth Rate
42. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Famine
Ethnic Flag
Polyglot
Dialect
43. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Refugee
Geography
Folk Culture
Agroforestry
44. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
slang
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Flag
45. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Subculture
Refugee
Toponym
Indigenous Culture
46. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Language Branch
Mobility
Bilingualism
Export
47. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Popular Culture
slang
Refugee
48. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Folk Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Natural Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
49. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Emigrate
Literary Tradition
Pidgin
Relocation Diffusion
50. A limitation on imports
Quota
Indigenous Culture
Refugee
Assimilation
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