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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Cultural Diffusion
Nation-State
Creole
Monarchy
2. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Economic System
Pull Factors
3. Goods brought into a country
Import
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Popular Culture
4. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Toponym
Barrio
Language Branch
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
5. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
Democracy
6. One who can speak many languages
Pidgin
Quota
Polyglot
Indigenous Culture
7. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Death Rate
Colonialism
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
8. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Ethnoburb
Involuntary Migration
Language
Pidgin
9. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Material Culture
Globalization
Developing Countries
Relocation Diffusion
10. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Acculturation
Pidgin
Globalization
Ethnic Flag
11. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Ethnic Flag
Subculture
Barrio
Symbolic Landscape
12. The young and the old in a society who need care
Migration
Dependent People
Language
Developed Country
13. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Population Pyramid
Assimilation
Developing Countries
Culture
14. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Ethnic Flag
Creole
Environmental Perception
15. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Dependent People
Language
Birth Rate
Population Pyramid
16. 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
Folk Culture
Dialect
Dictatorship
Export
17. 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
Dialect
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
18. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Genocide
Renewable Resources
Acculturation
Colonialism
19. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Geography
Developing Countries
Linguistic Refuge Area
Pull Factors
20. To send goods to another country for sale
Involuntary Migration
Export
Urbanization
Globalization
21. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Polyglot
Cultural Simplification
Thomas Malthus
Agroforestry
22. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Toponym
Barrio
Assimilation
Pull Factors
23. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Geo-demography
Thomas Malthus
Natural Resources
Assimilation
24. Highly developed cultures
Environmental Determinism
Civilization
Refugee
Pull Factors
25. Place-name
Geography
Toponym
Stimulus Diffusion
Migration
26. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Dependent People
Newly Industrialized Countries
Place
Ethnic Group
27. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Globalization
Involuntary Migration
Barrio
Dialect
28. The raising of plants or animals
Nation-State
Toponym
Natural Resources
Culture
29. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Agroforestry
Renewable Resources
Material Culture
30. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural diffusion
Export
Colonialism
31. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Culture
Renewable Resources
Isogloss
32. A limitation on imports
Agroforestry
Quota
Economic System
Isogloss
33. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Population Pyramid
Culture
Folk Culture
Refugee
34. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
free trade
Language
Civilization
Language Branch
35. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Natural Resources
Ethnoburb
Race
free trade
36. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Lingua Franca
Globalization
Genocide
Language
37. 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
Folk Culture
Race
Expansion Diffusion
Possibilism
38. Population geography
Folk Architecture
Population Pyramid
Geo-demography
Stimulus Diffusion
39. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Polyglot
Agroforestry
Developed Country
Literary Tradition
40. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Lingua Franca
Linguistic Refuge Area
Migration
Human Geography
41. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Return Migration
Death Rate
Dialect
Export
42. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Developed Country
Relocation Diffusion
Language
Geography
43. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Ghetto
Cultural Simplification
Democracy
Pidgin
44. 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
Possibilism
Ethnoburb
Developed Country
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
45. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Isogloss
Pull Factors
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
46. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Language
Environmental Perception
Permeable Barrier
47. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Acculturation
Dependent People
Eco-feminism
Geography
48. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Ethnolect
Material Culture
Polyglot
49. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Death Rate
Ethnic Group
Bilingualism
Thomas Malthus
50. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Isogloss
Dialect
Push factors
Popular Culture