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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Pidgin
Assimilation
2. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Natural Resources
Globalization
Polyglot
Environmental Determinism
3. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Pull Factors
Developing Countries
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Non-Material Culture
4. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Place
Linguistic Refuge Area
Eco-feminism
Tariffs
5. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
free trade
Thomas Malthus
Birthrate
Culture
6. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Migration
Ethnoburb
Monarchy
7. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnic Group
Urbanization
Race
Polyglot
8. Massacre of a particular group
Export
Genocide
Dependent People
Developed Country
9. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Environmental Determinism
Push factors
Economic System
Sex Ratio
10. The growth of cities
Tariffs
Indigenous Culture
Urbanization
Famine
11. Resources that can be renewed
Subculture
Renewable Resources
Non-Material Culture
Economic System
12. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Language Branch
Linguistic Refuge Area
Birth Rate
Cultural Simplification
13. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Ghetto
Contagious Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
14. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Nation-State
Ethnolect
Language Family
15. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Death Rate
Relocation Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Refugee
16. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Ghetto
Globalization
free trade
17. 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
Death Rate
Export
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Colonialism
18. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Birthrate
Dictatorship
free trade
Ethnoburb
19. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Death Rate
Refugee
Culture
20. One who can speak many languages
Birth Rate
Possibilism
Pull Factors
Polyglot
21. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Death Rate
Environmental Perception
22. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Newly Industrialized Countries
Push factors
Democracy
23. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Monarchy
Birthrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Globalization
24. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Ethnic Group
Developing Countries
Environmental Determinism
Human Geography
25. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Permeable Barrier
Refugee
Total Fertility Rate
Population Density
26. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Folk Architecture
Symbolic Landscape
Barrio
Pull Factors
27. A language with a writing system
Colonialism
Literary Tradition
Environmental Racism
Death Rate
28. A limitation on imports
Quota
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Involuntary Migration
29. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Region
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Flag
Language
30. 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
Push factors
Dependent People
Bilingualism
31. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Symbolic Landscape
Genocide
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
32. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnoburb
Developing Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
33. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Barrio
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language
Bilingualism
34. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ethnolect
Urbanization
Emigrate
Death Rate
35. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Language Family
Culture
Ethnic Flag
Globalization
36. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Pidgin
slang
Globalization
37. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Popular Culture
Migration
Return Migration
38. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural Simplification
Colonialism
Eco-feminism
39. Place-name
Toponym
Language Family
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Group
40. Population geography
Involuntary Migration
Permeable Barrier
Geo-demography
Economic System
41. A government ruled by a king or queen
Ethnolect
Monarchy
Possibilism
Birthrate
42. 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
Absorbing Barrier
Popular Culture
Environmental Racism
43. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Quota
Cultural Diffusion
Human Geography
Ghetto
44. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Civilization
Ethnoburb
45. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Ethnic Neighborhood
Tariffs
Developed Country
Folk Architecture
46. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Cleansing
Return Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
47. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Literary Tradition
Cultural Region
Monarchy
Indigenous Culture
48. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Subsistence Economy
Dialect
Globalization
free trade
49. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Region
Famine
Agroforestry
Non-Material Culture
50. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Nation-State
Relocation Diffusion
Popular Culture
Famine
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