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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Possibilism
Isogloss
Subsistence Economy
Civilization
2. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Developed Country
Dialect
Subculture
Involuntary Migration
3. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Dialect
Globalization
Refugee
Ethnic Flag
4. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Toponym
Import
Population Pyramid
Return Migration
5. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Dictatorship
Language
Barrio
Contagious Diffusion
6. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Subculture
Language Branch
Geography
7. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Environmental Racism
Assimilation
Agroforestry
Geography
8. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Democracy
Population Pyramid
Developed Country
Geography
9. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Environmental Determinism
Push factors
Renewable Resources
10. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Agroforestry
Return Migration
Population Density
Involuntary Migration
11. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Natural Resources
Language Branch
Agroforestry
Region
12. A government ruled by a king or queen
free trade
Cultural Simplification
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Monarchy
13. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnoburb
Colonialism
14. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Subculture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
slang
15. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Race
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Sex Ratio
16. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Emigrate
17. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Pull Factors
Assimilation
Bilingualism
Globalization
18. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Cultural Region
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Perception
19. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Isogloss
Subsistence Economy
Place
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
Popular Culture
Dictatorship
Genocide
Acculturation
21. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Dependent People
Subculture
Birth Rate
Human Geography
22. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Cultural diffusion
Dictatorship
Language
23. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Emigrate
Dialect
Nation-State
Pidgin
24. The young and the old in a society who need care
free trade
Dependent People
Bilingualism
Polyglot
25. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Subsistence Economy
Dependent People
Contagious Diffusion
Famine
26. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Chain Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
Literary Tradition
27. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Geo-demography
Developing Countries
Population Pyramid
28. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Culture
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnoburb
29. A limitation on imports
Genocide
Quota
Ethnic Group
Ghetto
30. Taxes on imports or exports
Globalization
Tariffs
Cultural Region
Bilingualism
31. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Region
Refugee
Eco-feminism
Culture
32. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Cultural Diffusion
Natural Resources
Dependent People
Linguistic Refuge Area
33. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Migration
Population Pyramid
slang
34. Government ruled by the people
Place
Push factors
Mobility
Democracy
35. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Renewable Resources
slang
Ghetto
Dictatorship
36. 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
free trade
Possibilism
Permeable Barrier
Popular Culture
37. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Creole
Environmental Perception
Democracy
Acculturation
38. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Language Branch
Thomas Malthus
Sex Ratio
Permeable Barrier
39. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Population Density
Ethnic Neighborhood
Involuntary Migration
40. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Population Pyramid
Pull Factors
Cultural diffusion
41. Place-name
Ethnic Flag
Toponym
Dialect
Ethnic Group
42. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dialect
Dictatorship
Cultural Region
Non-Material Culture
43. Goods brought into a country
Import
Race
Language Branch
Folk Architecture
44. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Material Culture
Cultural diffusion
Assimilation
Polyglot
45. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Globalization
Colonialism
Language Branch
Thomas Malthus
46. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Involuntary Migration
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Group
Export
47. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Indigenous Culture
Symbolic Landscape
free trade
Pidgin
48. The numerical ratio of males to females
Globalization
Economic System
Cultural Region
Sex Ratio
49. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Developed Country
Culture
Cultural Region
Language
50. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Polyglot
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area