SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Cultural Geography
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
geography
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Quota
Geo-demography
Environmental Determinism
Environmental Racism
2. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Nation-State
Folk Architecture
Cultural Simplification
3. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Absorbing Barrier
Cultural diffusion
Famine
Total Fertility Rate
4. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Agroforestry
Ethnic Flag
Newly Industrialized Countries
Return Migration
5. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Subculture
Language
Isogloss
Pidgin
6. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Nation-State
Ethnic Cleansing
Democracy
Death Rate
7. One who can speak many languages
Pull Factors
Isogloss
Eco-feminism
Polyglot
8. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Ethnoburb
Language
Toponym
9. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Eco-feminism
Human Geography
Refugee
Geography
10. Original inhabitants of an area
Literary Tradition
Contagious Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
11. 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
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Culture
12. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Lingua Franca
Tariffs
Environmental Determinism
13. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Permeable Barrier
Quota
Involuntary Migration
14. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
Nation-State
15. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Permeable Barrier
Language Family
Geography
Sex Ratio
16. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Developing Countries
Material Culture
Geography
Urbanization
17. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Environmental Determinism
Pull Factors
Subsistence Economy
Absorbing Barrier
18. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Ghetto
free trade
Tariffs
Human Geography
19. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Globalization
Indigenous Culture
Total Fertility Rate
20. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Geo-demography
Export
Assimilation
Migration
21. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Race
Cultural Diffusion
Pidgin
Monarchy
22. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Dialect
Urbanization
Folk Culture
Race
23. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Language
Material Culture
Population Density
Creole
24. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural Simplification
Ethnolect
Popular Culture
25. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Isogloss
Colonialism
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
26. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Ethnic Flag
Region
Pidgin
Globalization
27. 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
Dictatorship
Relocation Diffusion
Death Rate
Polyglot
28. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Geography
Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Place
29. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Language Branch
Globalization
Creole
Emigrate
30. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Economic System
Pidgin
Death Rate
Death Rate
31. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Sex Ratio
Developing Countries
Dialect
Push factors
32. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Dialect
Mobility
Population Pyramid
Bilingualism
33. A limitation on imports
Culture
Quota
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
34. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Isogloss
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Architecture
35. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Involuntary Migration
Return Migration
Region
Ghetto
36. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Sex Ratio
Death Rate
Chain Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
37. Population geography
Involuntary Migration
Popular Culture
Geo-demography
Expansion Diffusion
38. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Monarchy
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Group
Total Fertility Rate
39. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Chain Migration
Ethnoburb
Colonialism
40. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Democracy
Civilization
Symbolic Landscape
41. 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
Death Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Perception
Tariffs
42. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Newly Industrialized Countries
Popular Culture
Population Pyramid
43. The numerical ratio of males to females
Dialect
Sex Ratio
Migration
Globalization
44. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Ethnic Neighborhood
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
Contagious Diffusion
45. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
46. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
Birth Rate
Non-Material Culture
47. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Urbanization
Cultural Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Newly Industrialized Countries
48. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Refugee
Language
Globalization
Language Family
49. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Newly Industrialized Countries
Refugee
Geography
50. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Acculturation
Dependent People
Migration
Nonrenewable Resources