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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Ethnic Neighborhood
Barrio
Cultural Diffusion
Quota
2. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Stimulus Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
Natural Resources
Cultural diffusion
3. Resources that can be renewed
Ghetto
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Determinism
Renewable Resources
4. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Push factors
Emigrate
Material Culture
Chain Migration
5. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Toponym
Globalization
Permeable Barrier
Return Migration
6. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Pull Factors
Death Rate
Dialect
Quota
7. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Economic System
Assimilation
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
8. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Ethnic Neighborhood
Push factors
Dialect
Stimulus Diffusion
9. Structures built in a traditional manner
Export
Renewable Resources
Folk Architecture
Popular Culture
10. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Ethnic Neighborhood
Place
Toponym
Nation-State
11. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Toponym
Globalization
Nonrenewable Resources
Push factors
12. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Total Fertility Rate
Sex Ratio
13. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ethnoburb
Polyglot
Popular Culture
Emigrate
14. A government ruled by a king or queen
Agroforestry
slang
Monarchy
Relocation Diffusion
15. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Sex Ratio
Creole
16. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Symbolic Landscape
Population Pyramid
Subculture
Polyglot
17. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Linguistic Refuge Area
Death Rate
Language
18. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Agroforestry
Possibilism
Race
19. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Ethnolect
Geography
Urbanization
20. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Ethnic Neighborhood
Eco-feminism
Bilingualism
21. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Economic System
Ethnic Cleansing
Refugee
22. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Quota
Globalization
Ethnic Flag
Symbolic Landscape
23. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Natural Resources
Environmental Perception
Lingua Franca
Population Pyramid
24. A limitation on imports
Ethnoburb
Language Family
slang
Quota
25. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Permeable Barrier
26. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ethnoburb
Environmental Perception
Bilingualism
Dialect
27. Place-name
Export
Stimulus Diffusion
Culture
Toponym
28. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Dictatorship
Environmental Perception
Ghetto
Birthrate
29. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
free trade
Ethnolect
Environmental Determinism
Region
30. The raising of plants or animals
Cultural Region
Culture
Refugee
Ethnic Cleansing
31. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Developed Country
Death Rate
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
32. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Environmental Racism
Language Branch
Cultural diffusion
Birth Rate
33. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Civilization
Folk Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ghetto
34. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Non-Material Culture
Death Rate
Language Branch
Ethnic Flag
35. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Economic System
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Racism
Involuntary Migration
36. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Newly Industrialized Countries
Geography
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Group
37. The numerical ratio of males to females
Population Pyramid
Language Family
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
38. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Environmental Perception
Natural Resources
slang
Birth Rate
39. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Sex Ratio
Dependent People
Newly Industrialized Countries
Environmental Racism
40. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Agroforestry
Literary Tradition
Globalization
41. Goods brought into a country
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
Developing Countries
Import
42. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Thomas Malthus
Chain Migration
Race
Urbanization
43. 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
Colonialism
Environmental Racism
Democracy
44. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Environmental Determinism
Thomas Malthus
Geography
Ethnic Neighborhood
45. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Dialect
Place
Migration
Pull Factors
46. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Ethnic Neighborhood
Death Rate
Cultural Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
47. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Developed Country
Pidgin
Natural Resources
Geo-demography
48. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Environmental Racism
Monarchy
Acculturation
Barrio
49. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Ethnolect
Place
Colonialism
Subsistence Economy
50. To send goods to another country for sale
Emigrate
Democracy
Export
Race