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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Ethnic Flag
Relocation Diffusion
Developed Country
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Cultural Diffusion
Language
Ghetto
Dialect
3. Original inhabitants of an area
Cultural diffusion
Mobility
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
4. A government ruled by a king or queen
Colonialism
Sex Ratio
Relocation Diffusion
Monarchy
5. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Ghetto
Absorbing Barrier
Geography
Non-Material Culture
6. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geo-demography
Geography
Tariffs
Lingua Franca
7. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Barrio
Permeable Barrier
Dictatorship
Genocide
8. The numerical ratio of males to females
Creole
Renewable Resources
Environmental Perception
Sex Ratio
9. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Migration
Urbanization
Geo-demography
Cultural diffusion
10. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Refugee
Developed Country
Thomas Malthus
Nonrenewable Resources
11. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Colonialism
free trade
Population Pyramid
12. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Cultural Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Possibilism
Famine
13. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Eco-feminism
Return Migration
Ethnoburb
Ethnolect
14. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Creole
Place
Environmental Racism
Renewable Resources
15. 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
Race
Geography
Developed Country
Possibilism
16. The raising of plants or animals
Cultural diffusion
Culture
Refugee
Death Rate
17. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ethnolect
Civilization
Ethnoburb
Bilingualism
18. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Ethnic Group
Pull Factors
Place
Quota
19. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Barrio
Genocide
Eco-feminism
20. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Death Rate
Cultural diffusion
Geography
21. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Barrio
Nonrenewable Resources
Refugee
Environmental Racism
22. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dialect
Dictatorship
Cultural Region
23. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Subculture
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Group
Environmental Racism
24. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Involuntary Migration
Language Family
Possibilism
Ethnic Flag
25. Government ruled by the people
Pidgin
Assimilation
Democracy
Economic System
26. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Creole
Place
Ethnolect
27. Population geography
Pidgin
Material Culture
Language
Geo-demography
28. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Relocation Diffusion
Urbanization
Globalization
29. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
Push factors
Non-Material Culture
30. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Ethnic Flag
Ethnolect
Subsistence Economy
31. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Cleansing
32. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Emigrate
Ghetto
Ethnic Group
33. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Involuntary Migration
Return Migration
slang
34. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Race
Natural Resources
Stimulus Diffusion
35. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Pull Factors
Globalization
36. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Thomas Malthus
Birth Rate
Geography
37. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Eco-feminism
Barrio
Geo-demography
Monarchy
38. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Sex Ratio
Population Density
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Group
39. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Death Rate
Birthrate
Colonialism
Newly Industrialized Countries
40. 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
Involuntary Migration
Cultural diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnolect
41. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Symbolic Landscape
Population Density
Sex Ratio
42. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Culture
Cultural Region
Subculture
Lingua Franca
43. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Involuntary Migration
Absorbing Barrier
44. Highly developed cultures
Colonialism
Creole
Export
Civilization
45. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Cultural Region
Involuntary Migration
Migration
Developing Countries
46. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Creole
Import
Population Pyramid
Pidgin
47. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Quota
Language Family
Stimulus Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
48. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Flag
Democracy
Language Branch
49. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Economic System
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birth Rate
Ethnic Group
50. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Assimilation
Import
Nonrenewable Resources
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