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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Cultural diffusion
Language Family
Acculturation
2. Highly developed cultures
Possibilism
Dialect
Region
Civilization
3. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
slang
Place
Ethnic Neighborhood
Region
4. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Refugee
Dialect
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Group
5. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Subsistence Economy
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Monarchy
Folk Culture
6. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Chain Migration
Toponym
Developed Country
7. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Genocide
Emigrate
Dialect
Population Pyramid
8. The young and the old in a society who need care
Assimilation
Place
Dependent People
Chain Migration
9. 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
Possibilism
Acculturation
Ethnic Neighborhood
Material Culture
10. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Symbolic Landscape
Agroforestry
Famine
11. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Language Branch
Geography
Dialect
Death Rate
12. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Economic System
Migration
Birth Rate
Return Migration
13. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Chain Migration
Popular Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Urbanization
14. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Subculture
Stimulus Diffusion
Total Fertility Rate
15. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Population Density
Refugee
Nonrenewable Resources
Isogloss
16. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Literary Tradition
Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Region
17. A limitation on imports
Nation-State
Culture
Quota
Chain Migration
18. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Absorbing Barrier
Export
Language Family
Dialect
19. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Ethnoburb
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Developing Countries
Environmental Determinism
20. 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
Birth Rate
Refugee
Total Fertility Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
21. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Colonialism
Relocation Diffusion
Eco-feminism
Stimulus Diffusion
22. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Ethnoburb
Nonrenewable Resources
Acculturation
Sex Ratio
23. Goods brought into a country
Place
Eco-feminism
Quota
Import
24. The numerical ratio of males to females
Genocide
Sex Ratio
Pidgin
Democracy
25. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Lingua Franca
Colonialism
Death Rate
Birthrate
26. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Literary Tradition
Stimulus Diffusion
Agroforestry
Globalization
27. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Cultural Region
Place
Emigrate
Birthrate
28. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Cultural Simplification
Culture
29. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Genocide
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
30. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Import
Globalization
Developing Countries
Economic System
31. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Geo-demography
Urbanization
slang
Pull Factors
32. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Quota
Refugee
Literary Tradition
33. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Folk Architecture
Civilization
Emigrate
Globalization
34. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Environmental Racism
Chain Migration
Race
Ethnic Group
35. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Cultural diffusion
Toponym
Newly Industrialized Countries
Symbolic Landscape
36. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Possibilism
Renewable Resources
Popular Culture
37. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Flag
Lingua Franca
38. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Democracy
Geography
Possibilism
39. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Developing Countries
Mobility
Material Culture
Region
40. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Population Pyramid
Urbanization
Creole
Environmental Perception
41. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Lingua Franca
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dialect
42. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Perception
Colonialism
43. Border of word usage or pronunciation
free trade
Popular Culture
Isogloss
Economic System
44. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
slang
Globalization
Colonialism
45. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Language Branch
Culture
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Flag
46. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Death Rate
Involuntary Migration
Permeable Barrier
47. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Involuntary Migration
Acculturation
Dictatorship
48. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Ethnic Group
Possibilism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnoburb
49. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Colonialism
Dictatorship
Birthrate
Pidgin
50. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Barrio
Pull Factors
Linguistic Refuge Area