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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Newly Industrialized Countries
Civilization
Polyglot
Developing Countries
2. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Import
Stimulus Diffusion
Bilingualism
Barrio
3. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Possibilism
Geo-demography
Bilingualism
4. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Refugee
Pidgin
Acculturation
Literary Tradition
5. Goods brought into a country
Region
Democracy
Import
Dependent People
6. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Quota
Economic System
Indigenous Culture
7. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Folk Architecture
Human Geography
Language Family
Expansion Diffusion
8. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Genocide
Population Pyramid
Ethnic Group
Language
9. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Mobility
Folk Architecture
Globalization
10. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Possibilism
Barrio
Dependent People
Bilingualism
11. A limitation on imports
Quota
Cultural Region
Ethnic Cleansing
Nation-State
12. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Developing Countries
Folk Architecture
Nonrenewable Resources
Chain Migration
13. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Dialect
Environmental Determinism
Bilingualism
Assimilation
14. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Developed Country
Symbolic Landscape
Language Branch
Globalization
15. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Globalization
Cultural Region
Subculture
Agroforestry
16. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Dialect
Pidgin
Geography
17. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Diffusion
Nation-State
Linguistic Refuge Area
18. Massacre of a particular group
Dialect
Genocide
Emigrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
19. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Democracy
Cultural Diffusion
20. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Agroforestry
Nonrenewable Resources
Race
Ethnic Group
21. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Toponym
Eco-feminism
22. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Colonialism
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
23. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Developing Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
Population Pyramid
Monarchy
24. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Place
Population Density
Involuntary Migration
Geography
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
Import
Ethnic Group
Possibilism
Environmental Racism
26. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Expansion Diffusion
Race
Relocation Diffusion
Refugee
27. Original inhabitants of an area
Non-Material Culture
Barrio
Indigenous Culture
Famine
28. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Natural Resources
Developed Country
Chain Migration
Ethnic Group
29. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Linguistic Refuge Area
Symbolic Landscape
Stimulus Diffusion
30. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Polyglot
Literary Tradition
Monarchy
31. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
Newly Industrialized Countries
Cultural Simplification
32. 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
Dialect
Expansion Diffusion
Pull Factors
Dictatorship
33. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Isogloss
Sex Ratio
Developed Country
Dialect
34. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Mobility
Refugee
Eco-feminism
Nation-State
35. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Thomas Malthus
Material Culture
Language Branch
Assimilation
36. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Environmental Determinism
Mobility
Population Pyramid
Quota
37. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Flag
Import
Isogloss
38. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Material Culture
Isogloss
Birth Rate
39. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Region
Birthrate
Total Fertility Rate
40. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Geography
Relocation Diffusion
Chain Migration
Dictatorship
41. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Refugee
Developing Countries
free trade
42. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Toponym
Refugee
Subsistence Economy
Birth Rate
43. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Culture
Language Branch
Ethnic Cleansing
Involuntary Migration
44. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Quota
Possibilism
Refugee
Race
45. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Lingua Franca
Popular Culture
Cultural Region
46. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Return Migration
Birth Rate
Economic System
Ethnic Flag
47. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Push factors
Import
Economic System
Death Rate
48. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Ethnic Group
Export
Newly Industrialized Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
49. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Quota
Natural Resources
Push factors
Death Rate
50. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Expansion Diffusion
Language
Language Family
Material Culture