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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Ethnolect
Popular Culture
Democracy
Dialect
2. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Pidgin
Culture
Pull Factors
Nonrenewable Resources
3. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Chain Migration
Environmental Racism
Folk Culture
4. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Literary Tradition
Migration
Toponym
Assimilation
5. Massacre of a particular group
Dialect
Genocide
Death Rate
Dialect
6. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Globalization
Colonialism
Developed Country
Genocide
7. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Permeable Barrier
Indigenous Culture
Cultural Region
Language Family
8. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Toponym
Folk Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Economic System
9. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Language Family
Refugee
Acculturation
Ethnic Cleansing
10. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Export
Dependent People
Isogloss
11. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Emigrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
Push factors
Pull Factors
12. 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
Pidgin
Bilingualism
Nonrenewable Resources
13. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Globalization
Creole
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dialect
14. The young and the old in a society who need care
Push factors
free trade
Chain Migration
Dependent People
15. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
Thomas Malthus
Globalization
16. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Cultural Region
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
17. 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
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Colonialism
18. Population geography
Environmental Determinism
Geo-demography
Symbolic Landscape
Folk Architecture
19. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Civilization
Developed Country
Human Geography
Sex Ratio
20. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Cultural Region
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
21. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Language
Relocation Diffusion
Toponym
22. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Birth Rate
Human Geography
Permeable Barrier
23. Highly developed cultures
Geo-demography
Dialect
Civilization
Nonrenewable Resources
24. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Cultural Region
Export
Birth Rate
Environmental Perception
25. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Dialect
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
26. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Geo-demography
Return Migration
Eco-feminism
Population Density
27. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Involuntary Migration
Emigrate
Indigenous Culture
Mobility
28. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Linguistic Refuge Area
Monarchy
Ethnoburb
29. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
free trade
Creole
Ghetto
Nonrenewable Resources
30. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnoburb
Death Rate
31. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Sex Ratio
Language Family
Civilization
Emigrate
32. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Famine
Export
Thomas Malthus
Indigenous Culture
33. Government ruled by the people
Refugee
Democracy
Chain Migration
Push factors
34. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Thomas Malthus
Dependent People
Import
Ethnic Neighborhood
35. A language with a writing system
Assimilation
Culture
Creole
Literary Tradition
36. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Toponym
Non-Material Culture
Dictatorship
Cultural Region
37. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Polyglot
Pidgin
Expansion Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
38. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Expansion Diffusion
Developing Countries
39. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Barrio
Emigrate
Economic System
Developing Countries
40. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Folk Culture
Environmental Perception
Economic System
Nation-State
41. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Chain Migration
Democracy
Return Migration
Environmental Determinism
42. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Pull Factors
Population Pyramid
Region
Chain Migration
43. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Developed Country
Migration
Population Density
44. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Ethnic Group
Population Pyramid
Dependent People
Ethnolect
45. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Death Rate
Famine
Assimilation
46. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Language
Export
Dialect
Ethnic Flag
47. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Literary Tradition
Import
Subculture
Pull Factors
48. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Literary Tradition
Linguistic Refuge Area
49. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Acculturation
Ethnolect
Contagious Diffusion
Eco-feminism
50. Place-name
Population Pyramid
Birth Rate
Toponym
Developing Countries