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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A language with a writing system
Genocide
Literary Tradition
Colonialism
Total Fertility Rate
2. One who can speak many languages
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
Polyglot
Race
3. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Folk Architecture
Developing Countries
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
4. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Civilization
Ethnoburb
Cultural Simplification
5. Structures built in a traditional manner
Nation-State
Population Pyramid
Renewable Resources
Folk Architecture
6. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Acculturation
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Architecture
Cultural diffusion
7. Massacre of a particular group
Tariffs
Ethnic Flag
Genocide
Developed Country
8. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Total Fertility Rate
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subculture
9. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Import
Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Region
10. The growth of cities
Lingua Franca
Human Geography
Urbanization
Toponym
11. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Barrio
Famine
Bilingualism
12. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Cultural Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Thomas Malthus
13. Original inhabitants of an area
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
Quota
Indigenous Culture
14. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Geography
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnoburb
Quota
15. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Population Density
Ghetto
Material Culture
Return Migration
16. 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
Renewable Resources
Possibilism
Geography
Agroforestry
17. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Eco-feminism
Total Fertility Rate
18. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Lingua Franca
Refugee
19. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Democracy
free trade
Quota
Barrio
20. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Birth Rate
Mobility
Dictatorship
21. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Cultural Simplification
Newly Industrialized Countries
Environmental Racism
Folk Architecture
22. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Ethnic Group
Quota
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
23. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
Human Geography
Ethnic Neighborhood
24. Taxes on imports or exports
Stimulus Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Natural Resources
Tariffs
25. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Subculture
Globalization
Ethnic Cleansing
Pull Factors
26. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Ethnic Flag
Ethnolect
Assimilation
Nonrenewable Resources
27. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Ethnoburb
Stimulus Diffusion
Culture
Dialect
28. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Language
Polyglot
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
29. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Cultural diffusion
Geography
Dependent People
Culture
30. Government ruled by the people
Popular Culture
Isogloss
Democracy
Creole
31. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnic Group
Environmental Racism
Environmental Perception
32. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Nonrenewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Linguistic Refuge Area
Language Family
33. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Natural Resources
Death Rate
Stimulus Diffusion
Sex Ratio
34. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Polyglot
Ethnic Cleansing
Region
Birthrate
35. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Developed Country
Language Family
Subsistence Economy
Subculture
36. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Determinism
37. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Ethnoburb
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Absorbing Barrier
Quota
38. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Natural Resources
Dictatorship
Sex Ratio
39. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Language Branch
Urbanization
Newly Industrialized Countries
Subculture
40. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Dictatorship
Environmental Racism
Pull Factors
41. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Absorbing Barrier
Monarchy
Renewable Resources
Eco-feminism
42. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Cultural diffusion
Lingua Franca
Thomas Malthus
Geography
43. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Toponym
Ethnic Neighborhood
Folk Culture
free trade
44. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Import
Chain Migration
Emigrate
Culture
45. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Permeable Barrier
Population Pyramid
Ethnic Flag
Quota
46. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Mobility
Popular Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Racism
47. A limitation on imports
Quota
Acculturation
Nonrenewable Resources
Culture
48. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Population Pyramid
Popular Culture
Push factors
49. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Geo-demography
Subsistence Economy
Subculture
Polyglot
50. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Economic System
Cultural Simplification
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Perception