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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
slang
2. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Globalization
Developing Countries
Folk Culture
Mobility
3. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Return Migration
Isogloss
Pull Factors
Geo-demography
4. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Refugee
Ethnic Group
free trade
5. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Sex Ratio
Monarchy
Environmental Determinism
Democracy
6. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Thomas Malthus
Human Geography
Chain Migration
Cultural Diffusion
7. One who can speak many languages
Permeable Barrier
Polyglot
Newly Industrialized Countries
Acculturation
8. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Isogloss
Literary Tradition
Geography
Death Rate
9. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Geography
Barrio
Eco-feminism
slang
10. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Migration
Pull Factors
Culture
Emigrate
11. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Agroforestry
Involuntary Migration
Birth Rate
Environmental Racism
12. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Sex Ratio
Language Family
Human Geography
Push factors
13. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Stimulus Diffusion
Mobility
Contagious Diffusion
Language Family
14. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Lingua Franca
Environmental Racism
Total Fertility Rate
15. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Literary Tradition
Newly Industrialized Countries
Possibilism
Subculture
16. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Dialect
Folk Culture
Population Pyramid
17. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Birthrate
Emigrate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
18. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Birthrate
Ethnic Group
Civilization
Language
19. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Nation-State
Tariffs
20. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Region
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
Place
21. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Nonrenewable Resources
Dialect
Nation-State
Acculturation
22. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Geography
Stimulus Diffusion
Dialect
Population Pyramid
23. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Migration
Folk Architecture
Possibilism
24. The numerical ratio of males to females
Pull Factors
Creole
Ethnolect
Sex Ratio
25. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Popular Culture
Population Pyramid
Thomas Malthus
Lingua Franca
26. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Polyglot
Famine
Ethnic Neighborhood
27. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Pidgin
Bilingualism
Sex Ratio
28. Highly developed cultures
Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
Famine
Ethnoburb
29. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Toponym
Developing Countries
Democracy
Dialect
30. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Mobility
Globalization
Literary Tradition
Death Rate
31. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Emigrate
Refugee
Pidgin
Isogloss
32. 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
Language Family
Import
Dictatorship
Relocation Diffusion
33. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Chain Migration
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
Ethnic Cleansing
34. Original inhabitants of an area
Ethnic Flag
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
Monarchy
35. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Subsistence Economy
Place
Language Branch
Population Density
36. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Creole
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Flag
Economic System
37. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ethnic Group
Bilingualism
Natural Resources
Environmental Perception
38. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Possibilism
Creole
Folk Culture
Pidgin
39. The young and the old in a society who need care
Thomas Malthus
Absorbing Barrier
Dependent People
Literary Tradition
40. Place-name
Place
Toponym
Ghetto
Colonialism
41. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Permeable Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Linguistic Refuge Area
Environmental Racism
42. The growth of cities
Language Branch
Pull Factors
Urbanization
Quota
43. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
free trade
Relocation Diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Perception
44. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Dictatorship
Developing Countries
Ethnic Neighborhood
45. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Globalization
Stimulus Diffusion
Natural Resources
Bilingualism
46. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Polyglot
Subsistence Economy
Population Density
Dictatorship
47. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Tariffs
Urbanization
Human Geography
48. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Democracy
Ethnoburb
Acculturation
Place
49. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Place
Bilingualism
Migration
Geography
50. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Ethnolect
Literary Tradition
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
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