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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To send goods to another country for sale
Polyglot
Language Family
Export
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. Government ruled by the people
Chain Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Democracy
Contagious Diffusion
3. A government ruled by a king or queen
Nonrenewable Resources
Developed Country
Place
Monarchy
4. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Isogloss
free trade
Culture
5. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Mobility
Developing Countries
Death Rate
Language
6. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Eco-feminism
Pull Factors
Push factors
Death Rate
7. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Ethnic Group
Birth Rate
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Flag
8. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Environmental Determinism
Thomas Malthus
Population Pyramid
Absorbing Barrier
9. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Cultural diffusion
Colonialism
Pull Factors
10. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Symbolic Landscape
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnolect
Dialect
11. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Democracy
Expansion Diffusion
Globalization
12. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
Agroforestry
13. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Folk Culture
Toponym
Possibilism
Colonialism
14. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Democracy
Permeable Barrier
Culture
Cultural Diffusion
15. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Culture
Mobility
Eco-feminism
Death Rate
16. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Dialect
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
17. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Colonialism
Migration
Polyglot
slang
18. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Migration
slang
Relocation Diffusion
19. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Total Fertility Rate
Economic System
Subsistence Economy
20. 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
Dialect
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
21. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Environmental Racism
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Human Geography
22. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Race
Cultural Simplification
Economic System
23. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Refugee
Population Pyramid
Environmental Racism
Polyglot
24. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Environmental Racism
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
25. One who can speak many languages
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Perception
Culture
Polyglot
26. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Globalization
Subculture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Literary Tradition
27. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Absorbing Barrier
Polyglot
Death Rate
28. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
Population Pyramid
Absorbing Barrier
29. Original inhabitants of an area
Agroforestry
Pull Factors
Stimulus Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
30. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Environmental Perception
Permeable Barrier
Involuntary Migration
Birthrate
31. The numerical ratio of males to females
Cultural Region
Subsistence Economy
Toponym
Sex Ratio
32. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Famine
Barrio
Literary Tradition
Quota
33. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Dialect
Place
Chain Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
34. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Cultural Region
Subculture
Push factors
35. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Push factors
Emigrate
Tariffs
Death Rate
36. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
Ethnic Flag
Absorbing Barrier
37. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
Quota
Dialect
38. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Acculturation
Symbolic Landscape
Globalization
Absorbing Barrier
39. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Eco-feminism
Permeable Barrier
Birthrate
40. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Pull Factors
Region
Environmental Perception
Civilization
41. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Refugee
Ghetto
Newly Industrialized Countries
42. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Mobility
Subculture
Renewable Resources
43. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Sex Ratio
Nonrenewable Resources
Birthrate
Cultural diffusion
44. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Geo-demography
Birthrate
Acculturation
Population Density
45. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Involuntary Migration
Developed Country
Ethnic Cleansing
Thomas Malthus
46. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Geography
Dictatorship
Material Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
47. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Democracy
slang
Geography
Folk Culture
48. 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
Ethnic Group
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pull Factors
Nonrenewable Resources
49. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Death Rate
Developed Country
Lingua Franca
Language Family
50. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
Cultural Region
Nonrenewable Resources