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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Folk Architecture
Chain Migration
Famine
Environmental Racism
2. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Polyglot
Barrio
Language Branch
Material Culture
3. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Dialect
Literary Tradition
Polyglot
4. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Economic System
Place
Nonrenewable Resources
Assimilation
5. 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
Creole
Globalization
Culture
6. The growth of cities
Expansion Diffusion
Culture
Urbanization
Cultural diffusion
7. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Isogloss
Subculture
Colonialism
Dependent People
8. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Isogloss
Human Geography
Involuntary Migration
Absorbing Barrier
9. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Dialect
Place
Lingua Franca
10. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Expansion Diffusion
slang
Developed Country
11. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Renewable Resources
Mobility
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Involuntary Migration
12. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Ethnic Neighborhood
Relocation Diffusion
Geo-demography
Language Family
13. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Toponym
Environmental Determinism
Region
Lingua Franca
14. A limitation on imports
Region
Acculturation
Quota
Dialect
15. Government ruled by the people
Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Democracy
16. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Language Family
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Group
17. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Cultural Region
Ethnic Flag
slang
Human Geography
18. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Agroforestry
free trade
Eco-feminism
Lingua Franca
19. One who can speak many languages
Ethnic Cleansing
Language Family
Death Rate
Polyglot
20. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Environmental Determinism
Migration
Bilingualism
Cultural Region
21. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Absorbing Barrier
Pidgin
Genocide
Non-Material Culture
22. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Expansion Diffusion
Popular Culture
Death Rate
free trade
23. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Isogloss
Ethnic Neighborhood
Material Culture
24. Goods brought into a country
Dialect
Ethnic Cleansing
Region
Import
25. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Population Pyramid
Economic System
Mobility
26. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Birth Rate
Language Branch
Non-Material Culture
27. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
slang
Assimilation
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
28. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Geo-demography
Folk Culture
Dialect
Human Geography
29. Place-name
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
Colonialism
30. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Push factors
Population Density
Cultural Simplification
Dialect
31. Highly developed cultures
Assimilation
Civilization
Tariffs
Population Pyramid
32. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Import
Birthrate
Democracy
Economic System
33. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Possibilism
Developing Countries
Colonialism
Push factors
34. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Expansion Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Literary Tradition
Globalization
35. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
slang
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Architecture
36. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Culture
Pidgin
Absorbing Barrier
Isogloss
37. 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
Subsistence Economy
Possibilism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Cultural diffusion
38. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Thomas Malthus
Assimilation
Symbolic Landscape
39. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Toponym
Expansion Diffusion
Emigrate
Environmental Perception
40. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Acculturation
Death Rate
Urbanization
Return Migration
41. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Language Family
Assimilation
Nonrenewable Resources
42. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Democracy
Geo-demography
Genocide
Cultural diffusion
43. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Ethnic Flag
Possibilism
Relocation Diffusion
Barrio
44. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Birth Rate
Lingua Franca
Subsistence Economy
Cultural Region
45. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Eco-feminism
Folk Culture
Dialect
Tariffs
46. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Cultural Diffusion
Death Rate
Pull Factors
Toponym
47. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Famine
Thomas Malthus
Economic System
Democracy
48. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Import
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Globalization
49. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Culture
Civilization
Migration
50. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Culture
Ethnoburb
Language Family