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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
Cultural Simplification
3. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Emigrate
Environmental Determinism
Birthrate
Acculturation
4. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Developing Countries
free trade
Non-Material Culture
5. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Literary Tradition
Nonrenewable Resources
Culture
6. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Folk Culture
Developing Countries
Genocide
7. 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
Emigrate
Sex Ratio
Birth Rate
8. The growth of cities
Polyglot
Refugee
Famine
Urbanization
9. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
free trade
Linguistic Refuge Area
Renewable Resources
10. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Expansion Diffusion
Acculturation
Barrio
Democracy
11. Government ruled by the people
Region
Death Rate
Democracy
Total Fertility Rate
12. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Culture
Ghetto
Globalization
Dictatorship
13. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Chain Migration
Environmental Racism
Globalization
Material Culture
14. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Ethnolect
Popular Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Language
15. Structures built in a traditional manner
Population Density
Push factors
Assimilation
Folk Architecture
16. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Language Branch
Ethnic Neighborhood
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Racism
17. Population geography
Geo-demography
Dictatorship
Colonialism
Economic System
18. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Renewable Resources
Colonialism
Dependent People
Urbanization
19. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Birth Rate
Barrio
Chain Migration
Ethnic Group
20. A limitation on imports
Total Fertility Rate
Acculturation
Urbanization
Quota
21. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Developing Countries
Agroforestry
Material Culture
Birthrate
22. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Refugee
Toponym
Geo-demography
23. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Death Rate
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Group
24. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Assimilation
Refugee
Popular Culture
Population Density
25. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Chain Migration
Ethnoburb
Emigrate
26. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Return Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
27. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Region
Cultural Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Involuntary Migration
28. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Language Branch
Tariffs
Barrio
29. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Import
Symbolic Landscape
Material Culture
30. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Ethnoburb
Language Branch
Globalization
Dictatorship
31. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Dependent People
Globalization
Pidgin
Thomas Malthus
32. The young and the old in a society who need care
Culture
Literary Tradition
Globalization
Dependent People
33. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Thomas Malthus
Race
Chain Migration
Indigenous Culture
34. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Population Pyramid
Death Rate
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Language Branch
Population Pyramid
Dependent People
Famine
36. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Cultural diffusion
Creole
Geography
37. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Renewable Resources
Pidgin
Place
38. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Language Family
Geo-demography
Ethnic Neighborhood
Economic System
39. Goods brought into a country
Import
Ethnic Group
Famine
Population Pyramid
40. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Place
Export
Ethnic Neighborhood
41. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Dialect
Isogloss
Dialect
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
42. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Culture
Sex Ratio
Natural Resources
43. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Natural Resources
Refugee
Symbolic Landscape
44. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Dialect
Developed Country
Indigenous Culture
Pidgin
45. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Popular Culture
Democracy
Material Culture
Cultural Region
46. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Lingua Franca
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
47. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Geography
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
48. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Ethnic Group
Cultural Region
free trade
49. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Democracy
Quota
Population Density
50. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Developed Country
Environmental Determinism
Language Family