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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Isogloss
Globalization
Death Rate
Birth Rate
2. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Cultural Diffusion
Mobility
Popular Culture
Region
3. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Non-Material Culture
Culture
Renewable Resources
Environmental Determinism
4. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Renewable Resources
Human Geography
Dependent People
5. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Birthrate
Migration
Total Fertility Rate
Pull Factors
6. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Possibilism
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Racism
Agroforestry
7. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Pull Factors
Race
Globalization
Place
8. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Democracy
Ethnic Group
Subsistence Economy
Absorbing Barrier
9. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Language
Expansion Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Non-Material Culture
10. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Sex Ratio
Chain Migration
Language Branch
Lingua Franca
11. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
Popular Culture
Democracy
12. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Possibilism
Thomas Malthus
Developed Country
Lingua Franca
13. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Absorbing Barrier
Language
Sex Ratio
14. The numerical ratio of males to females
Thomas Malthus
Agroforestry
Developing Countries
Sex Ratio
15. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Involuntary Migration
Natural Resources
Colonialism
Contagious Diffusion
16. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
Developed Country
Ethnic Group
17. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Agroforestry
Material Culture
Ethnic Flag
Pull Factors
18. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Thomas Malthus
Dialect
Developed Country
19. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Developed Country
Region
Birth Rate
Push factors
20. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Cultural diffusion
free trade
Ghetto
21. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Ethnic Group
Indigenous Culture
free trade
Natural Resources
22. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Birth Rate
Permeable Barrier
Language Branch
Acculturation
23. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Genocide
Place
Monarchy
24. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Ethnic Cleansing
Acculturation
Agroforestry
Urbanization
25. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Cleansing
Emigrate
Push factors
26. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Expansion Diffusion
Creole
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
27. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Dictatorship
Push factors
Pull Factors
Ethnic Flag
28. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Geography
Subsistence Economy
Geo-demography
Isogloss
29. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Ethnic Group
Bilingualism
Ethnic Flag
30. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Thomas Malthus
Return Migration
Absorbing Barrier
Pull Factors
31. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Polyglot
Assimilation
Ethnic Group
32. The raising of plants or animals
Dependent People
Culture
Bilingualism
Subculture
33. Resources that can be renewed
Population Pyramid
Renewable Resources
Region
Urbanization
34. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Dialect
Stimulus Diffusion
Return Migration
Death Rate
35. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Natural Resources
free trade
Language Family
Culture
36. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ethnolect
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Emigrate
37. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ethnolect
Creole
Birth Rate
Push factors
38. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Subculture
Lingua Franca
Acculturation
Cultural Region
39. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Eco-feminism
Isogloss
Race
40. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Push factors
Developing Countries
Bilingualism
Cultural diffusion
41. 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
Geography
Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
42. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Isogloss
Human Geography
Acculturation
43. The growth of cities
Absorbing Barrier
Economic System
Urbanization
Lingua Franca
44. A limitation on imports
Chain Migration
Quota
Urbanization
Refugee
45. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Population Density
free trade
Absorbing Barrier
Thomas Malthus
46. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Ghetto
free trade
Nonrenewable Resources
47. Place-name
Stimulus Diffusion
Toponym
Environmental Determinism
Genocide
48. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Push factors
Genocide
Toponym
49. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Geography
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Neighborhood
Famine
50. Population geography
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Pyramid
Geo-demography
Geography
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