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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A government ruled by a king or queen
Genocide
Culture
Monarchy
Urbanization
2. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Refugee
Dictatorship
Globalization
3. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Refugee
Ethnoburb
Dialect
Cultural diffusion
4. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Culture
Pidgin
Economic System
Race
5. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Population Density
Acculturation
Developed Country
Ethnic Group
6. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Thomas Malthus
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
Cultural Diffusion
7. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Geography
Folk Culture
Environmental Racism
8. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Nation-State
Natural Resources
Culture
9. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Thomas Malthus
free trade
Refugee
Ghetto
10. The numerical ratio of males to females
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
Sex Ratio
Dialect
11. Taxes on imports or exports
Barrio
Tariffs
Dependent People
Agroforestry
12. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Material Culture
Cultural diffusion
Folk Architecture
Ethnoburb
13. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Assimilation
Import
Language Family
Push factors
14. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Famine
Genocide
Lingua Franca
15. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Ethnic Neighborhood
Tariffs
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
16. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Geo-demography
Barrio
Cultural Region
17. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Urbanization
Ethnic Cleansing
Nation-State
Assimilation
18. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Pull Factors
Cultural Region
Globalization
Geo-demography
19. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Genocide
Creole
Famine
Newly Industrialized Countries
20. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dialect
Push factors
21. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
free trade
Symbolic Landscape
Geography
Lingua Franca
22. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Cultural Simplification
Mobility
Push factors
Indigenous Culture
23. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Flag
Linguistic Refuge Area
24. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Ethnoburb
Return Migration
Non-Material Culture
Globalization
25. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Chain Migration
Colonialism
Absorbing Barrier
26. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Emigrate
Ghetto
Birthrate
Contagious Diffusion
27. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Subculture
Race
Ethnolect
28. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Geography
Globalization
Developed Country
Death Rate
29. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Cultural Region
Eco-feminism
Bilingualism
30. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Involuntary Migration
Culture
Chain Migration
31. A limitation on imports
free trade
Export
Acculturation
Quota
32. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Natural Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Stimulus Diffusion
Birthrate
33. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Natural Resources
Subculture
Cultural diffusion
34. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Chain Migration
Total Fertility Rate
35. A language with a writing system
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
Barrio
Migration
36. Original inhabitants of an area
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Cultural Region
37. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Ethnolect
Export
Indigenous Culture
38. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Folk Architecture
Mobility
Emigrate
39. One who can speak many languages
Developing Countries
Polyglot
Economic System
Cultural diffusion
40. The raising of plants or animals
Subsistence Economy
Ethnolect
Culture
Dictatorship
41. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Total Fertility Rate
Language Branch
Isogloss
Bilingualism
42. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Perception
Non-Material Culture
Population Pyramid
Environmental Racism
43. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Globalization
Refugee
Cultural diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
44. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Material Culture
Pull Factors
Environmental Perception
Popular Culture
45. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Folk Culture
Nation-State
Material Culture
46. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Globalization
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Export
Relocation Diffusion
47. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Colonialism
Symbolic Landscape
Geography
Folk Culture
48. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Renewable Resources
Folk Culture
Acculturation
49. Population geography
Geo-demography
Isogloss
Cultural diffusion
Non-Material Culture
50. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Cultural diffusion
Race
Natural Resources
Barrio