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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
Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnoburb
Subculture
2. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Language Family
Lingua Franca
Death Rate
Famine
3. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Renewable Resources
Relocation Diffusion
Polyglot
Language Branch
4. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Expansion Diffusion
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
Language Family
5. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ghetto
Emigrate
Folk Architecture
Stimulus Diffusion
6. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Cultural Simplification
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Group
Mobility
7. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Toponym
Return Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Determinism
8. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Emigrate
Human Geography
Dependent People
Environmental Perception
9. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Ethnic Group
Involuntary Migration
Creole
Environmental Determinism
10. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Lingua Franca
Environmental Determinism
Economic System
11. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Cleansing
12. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dialect
Polyglot
Cultural Region
13. Structures built in a traditional manner
Civilization
Quota
Folk Architecture
Language Branch
14. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
free trade
Ethnic Group
Expansion Diffusion
Push factors
15. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Civilization
Globalization
Eco-feminism
16. A limitation on imports
Race
Quota
Civilization
Folk Architecture
17. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Human Geography
Birthrate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Flag
18. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Acculturation
Material Culture
Death Rate
Population Density
19. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Thomas Malthus
Monarchy
Expansion Diffusion
Barrio
20. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Return Migration
Refugee
Geo-demography
Environmental Racism
21. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Population Pyramid
Cultural Region
22. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Cultural Simplification
Barrio
Environmental Racism
23. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Push factors
Language Family
Linguistic Refuge Area
Barrio
24. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Dialect
Environmental Perception
Region
Place
25. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Culture
Urbanization
Migration
Language Branch
26. Highly developed cultures
Ghetto
Stimulus Diffusion
Civilization
Globalization
27. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Urbanization
Environmental Racism
Civilization
28. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Bilingualism
Return Migration
Death Rate
Population Density
29. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Subsistence Economy
30. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Determinism
Import
Environmental Racism
31. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Globalization
Subculture
Ethnoburb
Total Fertility Rate
32. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Democracy
Globalization
Pull Factors
Environmental Determinism
33. 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
Region
Ethnic Neighborhood
Acculturation
34. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Material Culture
Birth Rate
Permeable Barrier
Agroforestry
35. 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
Globalization
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
36. Population geography
Tariffs
Environmental Determinism
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
37. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Expansion Diffusion
Natural Resources
Ethnic Group
Thomas Malthus
38. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Polyglot
Contagious Diffusion
Acculturation
Emigrate
39. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Quota
Cultural Simplification
Nation-State
Total Fertility Rate
40. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Globalization
Lingua Franca
Quota
Import
41. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Push factors
Chain Migration
Popular Culture
Symbolic Landscape
42. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Assimilation
Ethnic Group
Lingua Franca
Refugee
43. 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
Dictatorship
Lingua Franca
Human Geography
Birthrate
44. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Permeable Barrier
Economic System
Polyglot
Human Geography
45. A language with a writing system
Cultural Region
Birthrate
Literary Tradition
Non-Material Culture
46. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Culture
Region
Ethnolect
Cultural Simplification
47. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Push factors
Symbolic Landscape
Pidgin
Famine
48. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Developed Country
Environmental Determinism
Permeable Barrier
Ethnolect
49. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Expansion Diffusion
Sex Ratio
Return Migration
Race
50. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Death Rate
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Flag
Agroforestry