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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goods brought into a country
Population Density
Import
Monarchy
Push factors
2. A language with a writing system
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
Democracy
Isogloss
3. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Folk Culture
Population Pyramid
Place
Migration
4. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Popular Culture
Creole
Economic System
Ethnic Cleansing
5. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Cultural diffusion
Death Rate
Dependent People
Contagious Diffusion
6. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Newly Industrialized Countries
Toponym
Literary Tradition
Dialect
7. Government ruled by the people
Thomas Malthus
Genocide
Democracy
Economic System
8. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Lingua Franca
Cultural Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
9. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ghetto
Globalization
10. 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
Creole
Globalization
Dictatorship
11. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Popular Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Absorbing Barrier
12. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Involuntary Migration
Ethnoburb
Dependent People
Eco-feminism
13. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Indigenous Culture
Nation-State
Ethnic Neighborhood
Renewable Resources
14. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Language
Population Pyramid
Mobility
15. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Language Family
Death Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
16. A limitation on imports
Linguistic Refuge Area
Refugee
Quota
Import
17. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Refugee
Cultural Diffusion
Death Rate
Agroforestry
18. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Dialect
Geography
Subsistence Economy
Culture
19. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Nation-State
Dialect
Environmental Perception
20. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Culture
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Perception
Cultural diffusion
21. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Developing Countries
slang
Urbanization
Birth Rate
22. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Mobility
Geography
Monarchy
Push factors
23. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Culture
Permeable Barrier
Region
24. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Subsistence Economy
Stimulus Diffusion
Bilingualism
Urbanization
25. The numerical ratio of males to females
Expansion Diffusion
Sex Ratio
Symbolic Landscape
Indigenous Culture
26. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Pull Factors
Globalization
Polyglot
Environmental Racism
27. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Acculturation
Dependent People
Renewable Resources
Mobility
28. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Quota
Ethnic Group
Birthrate
Colonialism
29. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Chain Migration
Symbolic Landscape
Famine
Sex Ratio
30. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Environmental Determinism
Emigrate
Return Migration
Pidgin
31. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Polyglot
Language
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
32. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Creole
Bilingualism
Permeable Barrier
33. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Family
Monarchy
Pull Factors
34. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Folk Architecture
Contagious Diffusion
Quota
Ethnoburb
35. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Developed Country
Human Geography
Folk Architecture
Language
36. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Export
Region
Dialect
Cultural diffusion
37. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Emigrate
Literary Tradition
Urbanization
38. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Subsistence Economy
Chain Migration
Globalization
Popular Culture
39. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Non-Material Culture
Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
40. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Dialect
Expansion Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Export
41. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Racism
Race
42. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Creole
Stimulus Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Tariffs
43. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Barrio
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Determinism
44. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Possibilism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Urbanization
Refugee
45. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Agroforestry
Quota
Cultural Diffusion
Environmental Racism
46. The growth of cities
Refugee
Urbanization
Dialect
Dictatorship
47. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Possibilism
Indigenous Culture
Developing Countries
Dependent People
48. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
Race
Relocation Diffusion
49. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Agroforestry
Language Branch
Developing Countries
50. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Pull Factors
Pidgin
Natural Resources
Cultural Simplification