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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Birthrate
Developing Countries
Globalization
Pidgin
2. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Subsistence Economy
Place
Human Geography
3. 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
Developing Countries
Lingua Franca
Civilization
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
4. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Culture
Globalization
Democracy
Involuntary Migration
5. Goods brought into a country
Import
Material Culture
free trade
Dependent People
6. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Ethnic Cleansing
Population Pyramid
Race
Cultural Region
7. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Nonrenewable Resources
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Absorbing Barrier
8. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Thomas Malthus
Renewable Resources
Polyglot
9. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Dependent People
Export
Possibilism
Thomas Malthus
10. Massacre of a particular group
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
Dialect
Genocide
11. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Globalization
Subsistence Economy
Dictatorship
Assimilation
12. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural Region
Ghetto
13. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
Globalization
Famine
14. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Isogloss
Material Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Return Migration
15. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Subculture
slang
Expansion Diffusion
16. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Globalization
Return Migration
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
17. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Language Family
Eco-feminism
Return Migration
Creole
18. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Relocation Diffusion
Chain Migration
Subsistence Economy
Language
19. The numerical ratio of males to females
Mobility
Ethnic Flag
Sex Ratio
Chain Migration
20. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Refugee
Death Rate
Language Branch
Ethnoburb
21. The young and the old in a society who need care
Pull Factors
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Cleansing
Dependent People
22. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Lingua Franca
Population Pyramid
Popular Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
23. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
Population Pyramid
Language Branch
24. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Democracy
Place
Folk Culture
Cultural Region
25. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Globalization
Relocation Diffusion
Isogloss
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
26. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Absorbing Barrier
Isogloss
Agroforestry
27. A language with a writing system
Economic System
Literary Tradition
Cultural diffusion
Creole
28. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Colonialism
Dialect
Polyglot
29. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
Democracy
Death Rate
30. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Urbanization
Population Pyramid
Return Migration
Symbolic Landscape
31. 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
Dictatorship
Language Family
Polyglot
Environmental Determinism
32. Taxes on imports or exports
Permeable Barrier
Bilingualism
Tariffs
Place
33. Original inhabitants of an area
Geography
Indigenous Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
34. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
Birth Rate
Import
35. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Lingua Franca
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Folk Culture
36. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Ethnoburb
Polyglot
Death Rate
37. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Ethnic Flag
Ethnolect
Eco-feminism
38. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Ethnolect
Environmental Racism
Possibilism
Economic System
39. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Population Density
free trade
Isogloss
Geography
40. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Dependent People
Nation-State
Migration
Death Rate
41. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Quota
Pidgin
Assimilation
Developing Countries
42. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Famine
Natural Resources
Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
43. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Refugee
Subculture
Mobility
Human Geography
44. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Population Pyramid
Push factors
Dialect
Democracy
45. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural Diffusion
Environmental Racism
Folk Architecture
46. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Contagious Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
Population Density
47. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Geo-demography
Mobility
Birth Rate
Ethnic Group
48. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Toponym
Import
Nonrenewable Resources
49. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Dialect
Polyglot
Geography
50. The growth of cities
Environmental Determinism
Urbanization
Famine
Assimilation