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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Indigenous Culture
Bilingualism
Export
Globalization
2. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Environmental Determinism
Subculture
Birth Rate
Export
3. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Eco-feminism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Population Density
Popular Culture
4. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Polyglot
Tariffs
Ethnolect
Language Family
5. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Pull Factors
Dictatorship
Assimilation
Environmental Perception
6. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Race
Developing Countries
Permeable Barrier
Subculture
7. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Race
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
Human Geography
8. Structures built in a traditional manner
Culture
Folk Architecture
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
9. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Absorbing Barrier
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Group
10. Original inhabitants of an area
Urbanization
Indigenous Culture
Race
Globalization
11. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Nonrenewable Resources
Natural Resources
Acculturation
Dialect
12. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Literary Tradition
free trade
Region
Birth Rate
13. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Death Rate
Nation-State
Barrio
Birth Rate
14. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Literary Tradition
Ethnolect
Material Culture
Human Geography
15. A limitation on imports
Refugee
Quota
Geography
Chain Migration
16. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Material Culture
Folk Architecture
Pull Factors
free trade
17. One who can speak many languages
Sex Ratio
Permeable Barrier
Ghetto
Polyglot
18. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Barrio
Agroforestry
Famine
Assimilation
19. Massacre of a particular group
Language Branch
Genocide
Permeable Barrier
Geo-demography
20. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Birth Rate
Cultural Region
Globalization
Language
21. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Colonialism
Race
Cultural Simplification
Nonrenewable Resources
22. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Perception
Cultural Diffusion
Population Pyramid
23. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Refugee
Cultural Diffusion
Place
Folk Architecture
24. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Monarchy
Human Geography
Pull Factors
25. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Birth Rate
Creole
Chain Migration
Cultural Simplification
26. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Developed Country
Pull Factors
Total Fertility Rate
Non-Material Culture
27. Goods brought into a country
Import
Return Migration
Environmental Racism
Bilingualism
28. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Polyglot
Return Migration
Region
Material Culture
29. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnoburb
free trade
Refugee
30. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Tariffs
Eco-feminism
Migration
31. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Ethnolect
Globalization
Death Rate
32. The numerical ratio of males to females
Newly Industrialized Countries
Sex Ratio
Geo-demography
Dialect
33. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Toponym
Environmental Racism
Push factors
Region
34. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Language Family
Ghetto
Folk Culture
Developing Countries
35. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Urbanization
Language Branch
Popular Culture
36. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Push factors
Natural Resources
Expansion Diffusion
37. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Population Pyramid
Pidgin
38. The raising of plants or animals
Developed Country
Place
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
39. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Globalization
Cultural Simplification
Ethnolect
Famine
40. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Place
Cultural Region
41. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Push factors
Cultural Simplification
Permeable Barrier
42. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Ethnic Group
Population Density
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
43. 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
Dependent People
Language Family
Famine
44. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Total Fertility Rate
Isogloss
Emigrate
Place
45. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
Symbolic Landscape
Place
46. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Ghetto
Birthrate
Dialect
Quota
47. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
free trade
Developed Country
Involuntary Migration
Eco-feminism
48. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnolect
Natural Resources
Refugee
49. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Developing Countries
Ethnic Group
Absorbing Barrier
50. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
Genocide
Involuntary Migration
Developed Country