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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The raising of plants or animals
Creole
Culture
Region
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
2. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Cultural diffusion
Geography
Refugee
Population Density
3. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Literary Tradition
Import
Human Geography
Geography
4. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Folk Culture
Birth Rate
Refugee
Ethnic Group
5. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Renewable Resources
Environmental Perception
Ethnoburb
Cultural Simplification
6. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Dialect
Birth Rate
Subculture
Popular Culture
7. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Possibilism
Subculture
Urbanization
8. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Pidgin
Linguistic Refuge Area
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
9. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Nation-State
Geo-demography
Subsistence Economy
Democracy
10. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Refugee
Famine
Indigenous Culture
11. Resources that can be renewed
Famine
Genocide
Renewable Resources
Language Family
12. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Race
Dictatorship
Cultural Diffusion
Agroforestry
13. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Toponym
Urbanization
Environmental Racism
free trade
14. Population geography
Export
Relocation Diffusion
Creole
Geo-demography
15. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Subculture
Total Fertility Rate
Assimilation
16. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Export
Literary Tradition
Assimilation
17. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Developing Countries
Non-Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
18. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Culture
Subsistence Economy
Famine
19. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Geography
Environmental Determinism
Eco-feminism
Material Culture
20. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Subculture
Civilization
Push factors
21. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Push factors
Environmental Racism
Export
22. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Non-Material Culture
Pull Factors
Material Culture
Nation-State
23. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Pull Factors
Ethnic Group
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
24. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Globalization
Return Migration
Contagious Diffusion
25. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Ethnic Neighborhood
Death Rate
Cultural Region
Push factors
26. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Monarchy
Democracy
Dictatorship
Economic System
27. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Language
free trade
Famine
Quota
28. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Environmental Perception
Symbolic Landscape
Region
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
29. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Acculturation
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Perception
Contagious Diffusion
30. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Death Rate
Dialect
31. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Ethnolect
Death Rate
Region
Stimulus Diffusion
32. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Birth Rate
Cultural Simplification
Return Migration
33. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Sex Ratio
Cultural Diffusion
Ghetto
Language Branch
34. Goods brought into a country
Geo-demography
Birth Rate
Subsistence Economy
Import
35. The young and the old in a society who need care
Urbanization
Dependent People
Refugee
Polyglot
36. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Nation-State
Developing Countries
Globalization
37. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Urbanization
Human Geography
Ethnic Group
38. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Tariffs
Linguistic Refuge Area
Popular Culture
39. A government ruled by a king or queen
Renewable Resources
Language
Race
Monarchy
40. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Popular Culture
Death Rate
Race
41. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Material Culture
Birth Rate
Ethnolect
Mobility
42. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Push factors
Language Family
Cultural Simplification
Involuntary Migration
43. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Mobility
Colonialism
Civilization
44. 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
Possibilism
Dictatorship
Region
45. 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
Import
Dictatorship
Population Density
Cultural diffusion
46. Highly developed cultures
Stimulus Diffusion
Civilization
Export
Cultural Region
47. The growth of cities
Subsistence Economy
Permeable Barrier
Emigrate
Urbanization
48. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Natural Resources
Pull Factors
Total Fertility Rate
Lingua Franca
49. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Expansion Diffusion
Dependent People
Environmental Determinism
50. The numerical ratio of males to females
Subsistence Economy
Relocation Diffusion
Folk Culture
Sex Ratio