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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. One who can speak many languages
Mobility
Polyglot
Acculturation
Newly Industrialized Countries
2. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Ethnic Cleansing
Monarchy
Toponym
Chain Migration
3. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Nation-State
Globalization
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
4. The raising of plants or animals
Migration
Developed Country
Culture
Nation-State
5. Population geography
Geo-demography
Quota
slang
Ethnic Group
6. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Birth Rate
Language Branch
Ethnoburb
Emigrate
7. The young and the old in a society who need care
Barrio
Environmental Racism
Dependent People
Export
8. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Globalization
Migration
Place
Isogloss
9. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Cultural diffusion
Assimilation
Import
10. Place-name
Toponym
Ethnolect
Migration
Expansion Diffusion
11. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Popular Culture
Ethnic Group
Creole
Ethnolect
12. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Migration
Developed Country
Dictatorship
Place
13. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Eco-feminism
Isogloss
Death Rate
Sex Ratio
14. 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
Pidgin
Culture
Possibilism
Non-Material Culture
15. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Flag
Developed Country
Colonialism
16. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Popular Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dependent People
Polyglot
17. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Developed Country
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pidgin
18. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Famine
Civilization
Ghetto
Population Pyramid
19. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Civilization
Pull Factors
Folk Architecture
Literary Tradition
20. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Language Family
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Subsistence Economy
Bilingualism
21. To send goods to another country for sale
Involuntary Migration
Dependent People
Nation-State
Export
22. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Ethnic Neighborhood
Population Density
Civilization
Death Rate
23. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Race
Lingua Franca
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Perception
24. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Environmental Racism
Involuntary Migration
25. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Population Pyramid
Refugee
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
26. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Ethnic Group
Cultural Region
Lingua Franca
Relocation Diffusion
27. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Natural Resources
Culture
Birth Rate
28. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Culture
Dialect
Quota
Subculture
29. 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
Genocide
Dictatorship
Ethnic Cleansing
Involuntary Migration
30. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Bilingualism
Expansion Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Nonrenewable Resources
31. Taxes on imports or exports
Renewable Resources
Polyglot
Tariffs
Folk Culture
32. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Economic System
Ethnic Cleansing
slang
Geography
33. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Natural Resources
Non-Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
34. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Pull Factors
Absorbing Barrier
Involuntary Migration
Death Rate
35. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Push factors
Race
Dependent People
Economic System
36. Resources that can be renewed
Ethnic Group
Renewable Resources
Chain Migration
Language
37. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Genocide
free trade
Return Migration
38. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Expansion Diffusion
Chain Migration
Monarchy
Subculture
39. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Developed Country
Language Branch
Culture
Natural Resources
40. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Nonrenewable Resources
Language Branch
Geography
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
41. Massacre of a particular group
Absorbing Barrier
Acculturation
Genocide
Language Branch
42. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Permeable Barrier
Bilingualism
Urbanization
43. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Relocation Diffusion
Natural Resources
Folk Culture
Quota
44. Highly developed cultures
Folk Culture
Globalization
Relocation Diffusion
Civilization
45. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Region
Symbolic Landscape
Folk Architecture
Thomas Malthus
46. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Dialect
Bilingualism
Subculture
Popular Culture
47. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Barrio
Isogloss
Environmental Perception
Economic System
48. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Contagious Diffusion
Famine
Ethnolect
49. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Dictatorship
Return Migration
Cultural Simplification
Push factors
50. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Population Pyramid
Colonialism
Ethnic Neighborhood
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