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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Geography
Eco-feminism
Ethnic Neighborhood
2. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Geography
Economic System
Language
Folk Architecture
3. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Folk Architecture
Famine
Developing Countries
4. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Urbanization
Environmental Racism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Culture
5. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Human Geography
Environmental Determinism
Population Density
slang
6. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Geo-demography
Absorbing Barrier
Symbolic Landscape
Death Rate
7. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Chain Migration
Death Rate
Return Migration
Globalization
8. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Acculturation
Agroforestry
Assimilation
Nation-State
9. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Population Pyramid
slang
Agroforestry
10. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Emigrate
Ethnolect
Refugee
11. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Contagious Diffusion
Race
Assimilation
12. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Chain Migration
Isogloss
free trade
Acculturation
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
Isogloss
Possibilism
Ethnic Group
Dialect
14. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Relocation Diffusion
Civilization
Language
Contagious Diffusion
15. Place-name
Race
Ethnic Neighborhood
Refugee
Toponym
16. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Environmental Determinism
Globalization
Developing Countries
Push factors
17. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Place
Push factors
Democracy
Ethnolect
18. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Monarchy
Chain Migration
Ethnic Flag
19. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Folk Culture
Globalization
Human Geography
Involuntary Migration
20. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Folk Culture
Non-Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Famine
21. Highly developed cultures
Culture
Ethnoburb
Civilization
Natural Resources
22. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Geo-demography
Dialect
Natural Resources
23. 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
Expansion Diffusion
Tariffs
Geography
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
24. Government ruled by the people
Urbanization
Democracy
Ethnolect
Folk Culture
25. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
Nation-State
Democracy
26. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Globalization
Migration
Material Culture
27. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Export
Contagious Diffusion
Toponym
28. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Newly Industrialized Countries
Famine
Race
Urbanization
29. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Literary Tradition
Dialect
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
30. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Culture
Dialect
Civilization
31. A limitation on imports
Death Rate
Permeable Barrier
Quota
Civilization
32. Goods brought into a country
Dialect
Isogloss
Ethnic Group
Import
33. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Environmental Determinism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Push factors
Symbolic Landscape
34. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Relocation Diffusion
Polyglot
Subsistence Economy
35. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Language
Cultural diffusion
36. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Dependent People
Ethnolect
Contagious Diffusion
37. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Ethnic Cleansing
Place
Natural Resources
Language Family
38. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Chain Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birthrate
Nonrenewable Resources
39. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Population Density
Dictatorship
Bilingualism
40. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Nation-State
Genocide
Environmental Perception
Language
41. The growth of cities
Emigrate
Possibilism
Urbanization
Dependent People
42. 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
Developing Countries
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Region
Dictatorship
43. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Polyglot
Indigenous Culture
Developed Country
44. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Famine
Expansion Diffusion
Region
Folk Culture
45. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Family
Geo-demography
Cultural Region
46. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Ethnic Group
Region
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
47. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Bilingualism
Total Fertility Rate
Nation-State
48. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Absorbing Barrier
Death Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Refugee
49. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Acculturation
Indigenous Culture
Globalization
50. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Bilingualism
Non-Material Culture
Cultural Simplification
Cultural diffusion