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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A government ruled by a king or queen
Export
Ethnic Group
Monarchy
Natural Resources
2. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Nation-State
Environmental Determinism
Dictatorship
3. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Language Branch
Region
Barrio
Cultural diffusion
4. A limitation on imports
Emigrate
Quota
Indigenous Culture
Dialect
5. 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
Barrio
Cultural Simplification
Cultural Region
6. The young and the old in a society who need care
Eco-feminism
Dependent People
Nation-State
Absorbing Barrier
7. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Nonrenewable Resources
Civilization
Material Culture
Barrio
8. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Polyglot
Possibilism
Democracy
Involuntary Migration
9. To send goods to another country for sale
Involuntary Migration
Export
Dialect
Language
10. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birth Rate
Nation-State
Renewable Resources
11. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Environmental Determinism
Acculturation
Bilingualism
Region
12. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Expansion Diffusion
Language
Natural Resources
Monarchy
13. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Culture
Natural Resources
Death Rate
Globalization
14. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Ethnolect
Refugee
Cultural Region
Polyglot
15. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Developed Country
Non-Material Culture
Toponym
Expansion Diffusion
16. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Flag
Language Family
Possibilism
17. A language with a writing system
Ethnic Flag
Tariffs
Birthrate
Literary Tradition
18. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Creole
Agroforestry
slang
Region
19. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Toponym
Total Fertility Rate
Polyglot
Cultural diffusion
20. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Geo-demography
Ethnic Cleansing
Race
21. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Isogloss
Urbanization
Culture
22. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Geography
Subculture
Total Fertility Rate
Material Culture
23. Border of word usage or pronunciation
free trade
Stimulus Diffusion
Isogloss
Cultural Region
24. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Pull Factors
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
25. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Newly Industrialized Countries
Refugee
Permeable Barrier
free trade
26. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Cleansing
Developing Countries
Cultural Simplification
27. Place-name
Toponym
Possibilism
Colonialism
Urbanization
28. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Toponym
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
Environmental Perception
29. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Sex Ratio
Eco-feminism
Dialect
30. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Urbanization
Ethnic Neighborhood
Globalization
Ethnic Group
31. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnolect
32. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Eco-feminism
Assimilation
Renewable Resources
Economic System
33. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Assimilation
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
Place
34. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Language Family
Permeable Barrier
Expansion Diffusion
Population Pyramid
35. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Migration
Cultural Region
Total Fertility Rate
36. Structures built in a traditional manner
Possibilism
Refugee
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Group
37. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Material Culture
Ghetto
Geo-demography
Indigenous Culture
38. One who can speak many languages
Emigrate
Dialect
Polyglot
Ghetto
39. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Migration
Geography
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dependent People
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Agroforestry
Refugee
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Group
41. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Permeable Barrier
Lingua Franca
Region
42. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Material Culture
Birth Rate
Dependent People
43. The raising of plants or animals
Globalization
Culture
Ethnoburb
Cultural Diffusion
44. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural Region
Death Rate
Developing Countries
45. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Refugee
Place
Economic System
Stimulus Diffusion
46. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ethnoburb
Eco-feminism
Birth Rate
Developed Country
47. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Birth Rate
Environmental Perception
Migration
Subsistence Economy
48. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Subculture
Democracy
Birth Rate
Colonialism
49. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Material Culture
Population Density
Folk Culture
Absorbing Barrier
50. 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
Involuntary Migration
Push factors
Tariffs
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