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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Human Geography
Subsistence Economy
Nonrenewable Resources
Ghetto
2. The numerical ratio of males to females
Dependent People
Democracy
Agroforestry
Sex Ratio
3. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Urbanization
Ethnic Cleansing
Symbolic Landscape
Relocation Diffusion
4. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Bilingualism
Absorbing Barrier
5. Taxes on imports or exports
Birthrate
Population Density
Folk Architecture
Tariffs
6. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Cultural Simplification
Place
Total Fertility Rate
Bilingualism
7. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Dictatorship
Death Rate
Colonialism
Isogloss
8. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Push factors
Ghetto
Contagious Diffusion
9. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Push factors
Ethnic Group
Assimilation
Bilingualism
10. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Pull Factors
Environmental Perception
11. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Import
Refugee
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Racism
12. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Natural Resources
Return Migration
Ethnic Group
13. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Group
Cultural diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
14. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Emigrate
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Flag
15. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnic Group
Emigrate
Ethnoburb
Ethnolect
16. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Possibilism
Non-Material Culture
Nation-State
17. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Birth Rate
Mobility
Ethnolect
18. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Cleansing
Pidgin
Creole
19. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Colonialism
Quota
Relocation Diffusion
20. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Sex Ratio
Acculturation
Mobility
Expansion Diffusion
21. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Globalization
Language
free trade
Place
22. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Birth Rate
Ethnoburb
Refugee
Import
23. Population geography
Geo-demography
Death Rate
Environmental Racism
free trade
24. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Language
Geography
Dialect
Acculturation
25. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Ethnolect
Population Density
Contagious Diffusion
Famine
26. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Ethnic Group
Popular Culture
Environmental Determinism
27. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Dialect
Migration
Cultural Simplification
Creole
28. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Acculturation
Globalization
Expansion Diffusion
Pull Factors
29. 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
Language Family
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
Assimilation
30. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Globalization
Linguistic Refuge Area
Birthrate
Emigrate
31. A limitation on imports
Quota
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
Famine
32. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Ethnolect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Environmental Racism
Isogloss
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
Popular Culture
Possibilism
Death Rate
Dictatorship
34. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Environmental Determinism
Population Density
Sex Ratio
Pidgin
35. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Involuntary Migration
Language Branch
Birth Rate
Cultural Region
36. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Folk Architecture
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
Genocide
37. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Sex Ratio
slang
Dialect
Population Pyramid
38. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Genocide
Popular Culture
Geography
Globalization
39. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
slang
Expansion Diffusion
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
40. Place-name
Cultural Region
Geo-demography
Ghetto
Toponym
41. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
free trade
Cultural diffusion
Subculture
Environmental Determinism
42. One who can speak many languages
Colonialism
Population Density
Region
Polyglot
43. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Dependent People
Death Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Cleansing
44. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Death Rate
Sex Ratio
Region
Population Pyramid
45. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Globalization
Return Migration
Literary Tradition
46. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Flag
Contagious Diffusion
Popular Culture
47. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Ethnic Neighborhood
Linguistic Refuge Area
Colonialism
Permeable Barrier
48. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Pull Factors
Ethnic Group
Emigrate
49. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Environmental Determinism
Barrio
Mobility
Birth Rate
50. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Environmental Racism
slang
Developing Countries
Folk Culture