SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Cultural Geography
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
geography
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Cultural Region
Colonialism
Region
2. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Ethnic Flag
Natural Resources
Ghetto
Thomas Malthus
3. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subsistence Economy
Subculture
Material Culture
Emigrate
4. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Cultural Region
Newly Industrialized Countries
Civilization
Non-Material Culture
5. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Assimilation
Colonialism
Bilingualism
Total Fertility Rate
6. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Civilization
Developing Countries
Possibilism
7. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Quota
Eco-feminism
Tariffs
Chain Migration
8. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Geography
Subculture
Expansion Diffusion
Natural Resources
9. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Ethnolect
Birth Rate
Relocation Diffusion
Death Rate
10. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Death Rate
Birthrate
Famine
Linguistic Refuge Area
11. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Mobility
Tariffs
Popular Culture
Globalization
12. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Dialect
Agroforestry
Absorbing Barrier
Population Pyramid
13. 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
Death Rate
Language Family
Lingua Franca
Possibilism
14. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Newly Industrialized Countries
Cultural diffusion
Lingua Franca
Language Family
15. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language Branch
16. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Language Branch
Agroforestry
Import
Ethnic Group
17. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Barrio
Monarchy
Population Pyramid
Nonrenewable Resources
18. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Ethnolect
Export
Possibilism
19. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Civilization
Genocide
Mobility
Natural Resources
20. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Linguistic Refuge Area
Import
Economic System
Language
21. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Migration
Developing Countries
Mobility
Dictatorship
22. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Globalization
Culture
23. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Tariffs
Sex Ratio
Environmental Racism
24. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Birth Rate
Tariffs
Toponym
25. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Cultural Simplification
Folk Culture
Natural Resources
Language Branch
26. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Assimilation
Developing Countries
Acculturation
Barrio
27. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Famine
Involuntary Migration
Civilization
slang
28. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Death Rate
Colonialism
Material Culture
Globalization
29. Structures built in a traditional manner
Ethnoburb
Environmental Determinism
Death Rate
Folk Architecture
30. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Return Migration
Eco-feminism
Birthrate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
31. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Dependent People
Push factors
Birthrate
32. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Permeable Barrier
Pidgin
Folk Culture
Region
33. One who can speak many languages
Birthrate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Polyglot
Migration
34. Goods brought into a country
Region
Import
Dependent People
Race
35. Highly developed cultures
Push factors
Urbanization
Migration
Civilization
36. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Environmental Racism
Acculturation
Dictatorship
Race
37. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Environmental Determinism
Developed Country
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Flag
38. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Indigenous Culture
Developing Countries
Total Fertility Rate
free trade
39. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Symbolic Landscape
Toponym
40. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Emigrate
Birthrate
Assimilation
41. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Race
Subculture
slang
42. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Assimilation
Civilization
Dialect
Human Geography
43. 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
Ethnic Group
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Geo-demography
Tariffs
44. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Possibilism
Dialect
Renewable Resources
Sex Ratio
45. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Dictatorship
Death Rate
Pull Factors
Symbolic Landscape
46. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Ghetto
Export
Chain Migration
Cultural diffusion
47. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Folk Architecture
Involuntary Migration
Permeable Barrier
Eco-feminism
48. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Acculturation
Language
Genocide
Bilingualism
49. 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
Import
Dictatorship
Agroforestry
Race
50. The growth of cities
Cultural Simplification
Urbanization
Language
Total Fertility Rate