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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. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Export
Nonrenewable Resources
Non-Material Culture
Isogloss
2. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Refugee
Linguistic Refuge Area
Import
Ethnic Neighborhood
3. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Material Culture
Birth Rate
Culture
4. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Pull Factors
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language Branch
5. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
Quota
6. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Emigrate
Ethnic Flag
Quota
Isogloss
7. To send goods to another country for sale
slang
Sex Ratio
Export
Environmental Perception
8. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Pull Factors
Stimulus Diffusion
Return Migration
9. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Colonialism
Stimulus Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Genocide
10. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Population Pyramid
Mobility
Subculture
Cultural Diffusion
11. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Total Fertility Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Birthrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
12. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Globalization
Environmental Perception
13. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Popular Culture
slang
14. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Return Migration
Globalization
Possibilism
15. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Ethnic Neighborhood
Economic System
Non-Material Culture
Indigenous Culture
16. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Famine
Environmental Perception
Population Pyramid
17. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Newly Industrialized Countries
Population Density
Folk Culture
Toponym
18. One who can speak many languages
Cultural Simplification
Polyglot
Human Geography
Cultural diffusion
19. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Lingua Franca
Total Fertility Rate
Polyglot
Chain Migration
20. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Ethnic Flag
Material Culture
Colonialism
Polyglot
21. The young and the old in a society who need care
Place
Mobility
Dependent People
Tariffs
22. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Urbanization
Total Fertility Rate
Genocide
Chain Migration
23. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Region
Cultural Simplification
Culture
24. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Export
Cultural Simplification
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Group
25. A limitation on imports
Dialect
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Quota
26. Structures built in a traditional manner
Stimulus Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Democracy
Race
27. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Pull Factors
Eco-feminism
Ethnic Flag
28. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Geography
Lingua Franca
Ethnoburb
Birthrate
29. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Cleansing
Possibilism
Cultural Simplification
30. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Ghetto
Nation-State
Sex Ratio
Language Branch
31. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Migration
Mobility
Thomas Malthus
32. 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
Human Geography
Migration
Possibilism
Dialect
33. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Possibilism
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
34. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Folk Architecture
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Developing Countries
35. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Dialect
Ethnolect
Region
Ethnic Group
36. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
Quota
Ethnic Group
37. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Chain Migration
Push factors
Eco-feminism
Cultural Diffusion
38. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Ethnoburb
Language Family
Absorbing Barrier
Globalization
39. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Monarchy
Globalization
Environmental Perception
Population Pyramid
40. Population geography
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
Subsistence Economy
Chain Migration
41. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Eco-feminism
slang
Place
Famine
42. Original inhabitants of an area
free trade
Expansion Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Bilingualism
43. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Mobility
free trade
Ethnolect
Refugee
44. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Birth Rate
Renewable Resources
45. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Refugee
Cultural Diffusion
Developed Country
46. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Refugee
Assimilation
Environmental Racism
free trade
47. A language with a writing system
Indigenous Culture
Pull Factors
Literary Tradition
Place
48. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Involuntary Migration
Cultural diffusion
Refugee
Literary Tradition
49. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Creole
Natural Resources
Culture
50. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Developing Countries
Colonialism
Relocation Diffusion