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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Acculturation
Permeable Barrier
Relocation Diffusion
Emigrate
2. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Globalization
Geography
Migration
Dictatorship
3. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Ethnolect
Language Family
Ethnoburb
Ghetto
4. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Dictatorship
slang
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
5. A government ruled by a king or queen
Ethnoburb
Toponym
Genocide
Monarchy
6. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Possibilism
Refugee
Migration
7. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Birthrate
Lingua Franca
Literary Tradition
Chain Migration
8. Massacre of a particular group
Developed Country
Monarchy
Genocide
Bilingualism
9. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Migration
Death Rate
Language Branch
Cultural Diffusion
10. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Race
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
11. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Literary Tradition
Expansion Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Barrio
12. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Environmental Perception
Push factors
Cultural Simplification
Cultural Diffusion
13. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Famine
Death Rate
Region
14. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Language Family
Total Fertility Rate
Isogloss
Developing Countries
15. Original inhabitants of an area
Urbanization
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
16. The numerical ratio of males to females
Acculturation
Eco-feminism
Thomas Malthus
Sex Ratio
17. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Dictatorship
Mobility
Place
Thomas Malthus
18. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Genocide
Language Branch
Ethnolect
Pidgin
19. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Assimilation
Chain Migration
Birthrate
Refugee
20. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Civilization
Dependent People
Region
Ethnic Neighborhood
21. A language with a writing system
free trade
Acculturation
Literary Tradition
Economic System
22. Population geography
Ethnoburb
Tariffs
Geo-demography
Folk Culture
23. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Culture
Ethnic Group
Dependent People
Nation-State
24. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Environmental Perception
Cultural Region
Civilization
Environmental Racism
25. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
Thomas Malthus
Region
26. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Death Rate
Subculture
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Region
27. Goods brought into a country
Emigrate
Involuntary Migration
Culture
Import
28. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Human Geography
Symbolic Landscape
Import
Stimulus Diffusion
29. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Bilingualism
free trade
Push factors
Ethnolect
30. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Cultural Region
Dependent People
Popular Culture
31. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Literary Tradition
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Popular Culture
32. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Mobility
Dialect
Ethnic Cleansing
Export
33. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Lingua Franca
Bilingualism
Ghetto
34. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
Refugee
35. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
Dialect
Agroforestry
36. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Human Geography
Refugee
Monarchy
Relocation Diffusion
37. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Place
Geography
Language Family
Absorbing Barrier
38. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Isogloss
Democracy
Indigenous Culture
39. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Cultural Region
Subsistence Economy
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Perception
40. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
Total Fertility Rate
41. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Human Geography
Dialect
Globalization
42. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Involuntary Migration
Developing Countries
Cultural Diffusion
43. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
Expansion Diffusion
free trade
44. 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
Culture
Possibilism
Culture
Quota
45. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Indigenous Culture
Developing Countries
Developed Country
Cultural Diffusion
46. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Migration
Assimilation
Race
47. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural Simplification
Region
Culture
48. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Nonrenewable Resources
Dependent People
Mobility
49. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Cultural Simplification
Non-Material Culture
Population Density
Eco-feminism
50. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Flag
Economic System
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