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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Newly Industrialized Countries
Genocide
Globalization
Environmental Perception
2. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Death Rate
Migration
Ethnoburb
Race
3. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Possibilism
Human Geography
Genocide
4. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Bilingualism
Dictatorship
Mobility
5. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Natural Resources
Ghetto
Region
6. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
Human Geography
Popular Culture
7. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Region
Linguistic Refuge Area
Total Fertility Rate
8. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Emigrate
Stimulus Diffusion
Globalization
9. Highly developed cultures
Language
Ethnoburb
Human Geography
Civilization
10. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Dependent People
Barrio
Ethnic Group
Return Migration
11. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Popular Culture
Tariffs
Toponym
Population Pyramid
12. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Absorbing Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
13. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Non-Material Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
14. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Toponym
Nation-State
Dialect
slang
15. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Thomas Malthus
Natural Resources
Economic System
Linguistic Refuge Area
16. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Perception
Contagious Diffusion
17. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Cultural Diffusion
Return Migration
Birthrate
18. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Population Pyramid
Pidgin
Culture
19. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Genocide
Mobility
Urbanization
Symbolic Landscape
20. Taxes on imports or exports
Bilingualism
Tariffs
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
21. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Tariffs
Toponym
Sex Ratio
Subsistence Economy
22. 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
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
Agroforestry
Dictatorship
23. Massacre of a particular group
Language Family
Race
Genocide
Population Density
24. Goods brought into a country
Economic System
Emigrate
Import
Ethnic Cleansing
25. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Human Geography
Material Culture
Place
Ethnoburb
26. Place-name
Barrio
Toponym
Stimulus Diffusion
Pull Factors
27. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Ethnic Group
Thomas Malthus
Assimilation
Population Pyramid
28. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Chain Migration
Bilingualism
Urbanization
29. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Globalization
Pidgin
Globalization
30. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Pull Factors
Famine
Race
31. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Tariffs
Economic System
Globalization
Region
32. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Dialect
Pidgin
Ethnic Cleansing
Population Density
33. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Export
Human Geography
34. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Export
Urbanization
Monarchy
Birth Rate
35. A limitation on imports
Export
Natural Resources
Quota
Refugee
36. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Agroforestry
Refugee
Material Culture
Human Geography
37. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ethnolect
Civilization
Return Migration
Push factors
38. A government ruled by a king or queen
Globalization
Absorbing Barrier
Monarchy
Thomas Malthus
39. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Ethnoburb
Birthrate
Literary Tradition
Sex Ratio
40. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Dictatorship
Birth Rate
Environmental Determinism
Refugee
41. Resources that can be renewed
Environmental Determinism
Cultural diffusion
Renewable Resources
Cultural Region
42. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Permeable Barrier
Population Density
43. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Race
Economic System
Return Migration
44. Population geography
Emigrate
Non-Material Culture
Migration
Geo-demography
45. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Mobility
Emigrate
Toponym
Refugee
46. The numerical ratio of males to females
Population Pyramid
Ethnoburb
Place
Sex Ratio
47. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Ghetto
Material Culture
Bilingualism
48. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Simplification
Chain Migration
Mobility
Cultural Region
49. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Ethnoburb
Urbanization
Language Family
Folk Culture
50. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Renewable Resources
Chain Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Language Branch
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