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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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1. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Cultural Region
Ethnic Neighborhood
Renewable Resources
2. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Dictatorship
Genocide
Famine
3. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Stimulus Diffusion
Popular Culture
4. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Chain Migration
Nonrenewable Resources
Developing Countries
Language
5. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Mobility
Language
Assimilation
6. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Colonialism
Sex Ratio
Population Pyramid
Popular Culture
7. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Emigrate
Relocation Diffusion
Polyglot
Assimilation
8. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Ethnic Cleansing
Barrio
Ethnic Flag
9. A language with a writing system
Symbolic Landscape
Eco-feminism
Literary Tradition
Popular Culture
10. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Developed Country
Culture
Chain Migration
Pidgin
11. One who can speak many languages
Sex Ratio
Polyglot
Dialect
Race
12. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Globalization
Death Rate
Death Rate
13. Goods brought into a country
Import
Dialect
Language Branch
Cultural Simplification
14. Population geography
Cultural Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Geo-demography
15. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Cultural diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Region
16. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Import
Tariffs
slang
Isogloss
17. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Refugee
Ethnoburb
Newly Industrialized Countries
Culture
18. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Newly Industrialized Countries
Total Fertility Rate
Possibilism
19. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Lingua Franca
Newly Industrialized Countries
Death Rate
Human Geography
20. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subsistence Economy
Toponym
Dialect
21. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Dependent People
slang
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Group
22. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Cultural Region
Language
Language Family
Natural Resources
23. To send goods to another country for sale
Folk Architecture
Economic System
Urbanization
Export
24. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Eco-feminism
Economic System
Place
Nation-State
25. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Nonrenewable Resources
Total Fertility Rate
Quota
26. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Possibilism
Creole
Subculture
Culture
27. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Environmental Determinism
Subculture
Refugee
28. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Developed Country
Polyglot
Agroforestry
Barrio
29. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Barrio
Ethnolect
Colonialism
Place
30. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Creole
Mobility
Lingua Franca
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
31. Structures built in a traditional manner
Pull Factors
Environmental Perception
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Architecture
32. Place-name
Toponym
Economic System
Language
Genocide
33. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Cultural diffusion
Refugee
Eco-feminism
Chain Migration
34. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Colonialism
35. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Environmental Racism
Migration
Literary Tradition
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
36. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Possibilism
free trade
Death Rate
Civilization
37. 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
Renewable Resources
Sex Ratio
Dictatorship
Emigrate
38. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Permeable Barrier
Chain Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
39. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Geography
Death Rate
Return Migration
free trade
40. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Return Migration
Ethnolect
Push factors
Urbanization
41. A limitation on imports
Push factors
Language
Quota
Stimulus Diffusion
42. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Subculture
Democracy
slang
43. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Pull Factors
Cultural Simplification
Globalization
Environmental Racism
44. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Ethnic Flag
Involuntary Migration
Economic System
Nonrenewable Resources
45. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
slang
Acculturation
Civilization
Total Fertility Rate
46. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Civilization
Environmental Determinism
Refugee
Developed Country
47. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Folk Culture
Barrio
Possibilism
Culture
48. Original inhabitants of an area
Possibilism
Indigenous Culture
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
49. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Nation-State
Relocation Diffusion
Eco-feminism
Mobility
50. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Import
Population Density
Linguistic Refuge Area
Assimilation