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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Cultural Diffusion
Agroforestry
Ghetto
Dialect
2. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
slang
Developing Countries
Colonialism
3. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Culture
Mobility
free trade
Birth Rate
4. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
Human Geography
Geography
5. A language with a writing system
Economic System
Push factors
Colonialism
Literary Tradition
6. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Natural Resources
Population Pyramid
Developing Countries
Folk Architecture
7. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Nonrenewable Resources
Population Pyramid
Bilingualism
8. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Refugee
slang
Civilization
Stimulus Diffusion
9. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Environmental Racism
Renewable Resources
Culture
10. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Migration
slang
Symbolic Landscape
11. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Involuntary Migration
Creole
Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
12. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Sex Ratio
slang
Culture
13. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Push factors
slang
Migration
Eco-feminism
14. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Folk Architecture
Push factors
Stimulus Diffusion
Pull Factors
15. Original inhabitants of an area
Creole
Cultural Diffusion
Assimilation
Indigenous Culture
16. A limitation on imports
Quota
Expansion Diffusion
Subculture
Population Density
17. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Birth Rate
Ethnic Flag
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
18. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
slang
Region
Refugee
Language
19. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Birth Rate
Acculturation
Ethnic Cleansing
Stimulus Diffusion
20. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Return Migration
Lingua Franca
Ethnoburb
21. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Globalization
Polyglot
Involuntary Migration
Sex Ratio
22. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Absorbing Barrier
Emigrate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Genocide
23. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
slang
Birthrate
Environmental Racism
Environmental Perception
24. 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
Ethnoburb
Total Fertility Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pull Factors
25. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Literary Tradition
Environmental Perception
Pidgin
Region
26. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Democracy
Genocide
Birth Rate
Population Pyramid
27. The raising of plants or animals
Urbanization
Non-Material Culture
Economic System
Culture
28. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Isogloss
Contagious Diffusion
Barrio
Bilingualism
29. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Agroforestry
Indigenous Culture
Language Branch
Cultural Region
30. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Environmental Racism
Place
Cultural Diffusion
Economic System
31. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Assimilation
Ethnoburb
Culture
Nation-State
32. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Quota
Globalization
Environmental Perception
Non-Material Culture
33. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Mobility
Dialect
Newly Industrialized Countries
Subsistence Economy
34. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Death Rate
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
Creole
35. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ghetto
Ethnolect
Stimulus Diffusion
Assimilation
36. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Contagious Diffusion
Globalization
Language
Ethnic Cleansing
37. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Pull Factors
Dialect
Quota
38. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Culture
Monarchy
Globalization
39. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Genocide
Subsistence Economy
Death Rate
40. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Subsistence Economy
Population Pyramid
Linguistic Refuge Area
Return Migration
41. A government ruled by a king or queen
Economic System
Monarchy
Push factors
Language Branch
42. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Dialect
Chain Migration
Developed Country
Import
43. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Refugee
Developing Countries
Region
Language Family
44. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Environmental Determinism
Pidgin
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Group
45. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Material Culture
Environmental Racism
Ethnolect
Dialect
46. Place-name
Dictatorship
Toponym
Urbanization
Folk Architecture
47. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Population Density
Folk Architecture
Environmental Perception
Lingua Franca
48. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Emigrate
Cultural Region
Population Density
49. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Democracy
Possibilism
Chain Migration
Cultural diffusion
50. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Barrio
Total Fertility Rate
Export