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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Newly Industrialized Countries
Monarchy
Ethnoburb
Acculturation
2. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Developing Countries
Environmental Determinism
Non-Material Culture
Creole
3. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Non-Material Culture
Acculturation
Sex Ratio
4. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Dialect
free trade
Death Rate
Language Family
5. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Polyglot
Import
Dialect
Nation-State
6. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Dictatorship
Expansion Diffusion
Natural Resources
Ethnolect
7. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Death Rate
Culture
Population Density
Cultural Region
8. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Refugee
Human Geography
Environmental Racism
9. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Monarchy
Quota
free trade
10. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Expansion Diffusion
Population Pyramid
Export
Agroforestry
11. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
Mobility
Pull Factors
12. Population geography
Dictatorship
Return Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
Geo-demography
13. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Refugee
Race
Thomas Malthus
Place
14. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
free trade
Nonrenewable Resources
Colonialism
Nation-State
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
Folk Culture
Subculture
16. Resources that can be renewed
Nonrenewable Resources
Migration
Pidgin
Renewable Resources
17. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
Bilingualism
Emigrate
18. Place-name
Environmental Determinism
Birth Rate
Toponym
Renewable Resources
19. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Famine
free trade
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
20. Government ruled by the people
Isogloss
Democracy
Pull Factors
Ethnic Group
21. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Population Pyramid
Eco-feminism
Developing Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
22. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Globalization
Geo-demography
Creole
23. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Newly Industrialized Countries
Total Fertility Rate
Agroforestry
Birthrate
24. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Newly Industrialized Countries
Region
Linguistic Refuge Area
Language
25. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Toponym
slang
Folk Architecture
Permeable Barrier
26. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Environmental Racism
Globalization
Economic System
Linguistic Refuge Area
27. One who can speak many languages
Geography
Democracy
free trade
Polyglot
28. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Chain Migration
Symbolic Landscape
29. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Ghetto
Dialect
Natural Resources
Globalization
30. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Contagious Diffusion
Dictatorship
Stimulus Diffusion
Geo-demography
31. The raising of plants or animals
Ethnic Cleansing
Culture
Language
Death Rate
32. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Involuntary Migration
Literary Tradition
33. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Acculturation
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Cleansing
34. Goods brought into a country
Ethnoburb
Import
Indigenous Culture
Natural Resources
35. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Emigrate
Tariffs
Material Culture
36. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
37. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Democracy
Stimulus Diffusion
Urbanization
Colonialism
38. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Birthrate
Involuntary Migration
Lingua Franca
39. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Place
Nation-State
Developed Country
Return Migration
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Subculture
Ethnic Group
Nation-State
Linguistic Refuge Area
41. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Tariffs
Agroforestry
42. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Return Migration
Birthrate
Contagious Diffusion
Geography
43. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Determinism
Ethnolect
Expansion Diffusion
44. Structures built in a traditional manner
slang
Renewable Resources
Emigrate
Folk Architecture
45. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Refugee
Lingua Franca
Birth Rate
Total Fertility Rate
46. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
Cultural Simplification
47. 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
Language Family
Democracy
Folk Architecture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
48. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
slang
Isogloss
Globalization
Dialect
49. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Folk Culture
Environmental Perception
Globalization
Region
50. A limitation on imports
Mobility
Absorbing Barrier
Quota
Ethnic Group