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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Population geography
Geo-demography
slang
Culture
Place
2. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Geo-demography
Import
Dialect
3. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Neighborhood
Export
Subculture
Chain Migration
4. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Genocide
Environmental Perception
Mobility
5. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Natural Resources
Popular Culture
Involuntary Migration
Mobility
6. Place-name
Thomas Malthus
Toponym
Population Density
Dialect
7. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Stimulus Diffusion
Creole
Population Pyramid
Ghetto
8. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Export
Pidgin
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural Region
9. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Import
Language Branch
Thomas Malthus
Geography
10. Structures built in a traditional manner
Stimulus Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Architecture
Economic System
11. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Chain Migration
Language
Culture
Population Density
12. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Tariffs
Isogloss
Absorbing Barrier
Culture
13. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Cultural Diffusion
Barrio
Pidgin
Colonialism
14. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
Agroforestry
15. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Nation-State
Ethnolect
Migration
Globalization
16. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Environmental Perception
Dialect
Sex Ratio
Human Geography
17. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Group
Total Fertility Rate
Possibilism
Race
18. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Economic System
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Flag
Subsistence Economy
19. One who can speak many languages
Ethnoburb
Environmental Determinism
Agroforestry
Polyglot
20. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Economic System
Newly Industrialized Countries
Pull Factors
Eco-feminism
21. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Export
Ethnic Flag
Region
Environmental Racism
22. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Indigenous Culture
Developed Country
Tariffs
23. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Non-Material Culture
Subsistence Economy
Birth Rate
Isogloss
24. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Ghetto
25. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Population Pyramid
Ethnoburb
Dialect
Place
26. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Ethnic Group
Export
Permeable Barrier
Cultural Simplification
27. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Language Family
Economic System
Ethnic Flag
Isogloss
28. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Dialect
Total Fertility Rate
Population Density
Chain Migration
29. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Nation-State
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Racism
30. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Indigenous Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Developing Countries
31. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
free trade
Ethnic Group
Import
32. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Population Pyramid
Place
Popular Culture
Language Branch
33. Highly developed cultures
Urbanization
Thomas Malthus
Ethnolect
Civilization
34. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Famine
Popular Culture
Dialect
Dictatorship
35. Original inhabitants of an area
Pull Factors
Civilization
Indigenous Culture
Dialect
36. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Push factors
Ghetto
Eco-feminism
Permeable Barrier
37. A government ruled by a king or queen
Barrio
Globalization
Monarchy
Linguistic Refuge Area
38. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Urbanization
Region
Quota
Cultural Simplification
39. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Refugee
Pidgin
Race
Isogloss
40. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Eco-feminism
Push factors
Thomas Malthus
Assimilation
41. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Population Density
Nation-State
Involuntary Migration
Monarchy
42. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Refugee
Bilingualism
Eco-feminism
Popular Culture
43. A language with a writing system
Thomas Malthus
Literary Tradition
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Cleansing
44. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Toponym
Contagious Diffusion
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
45. Resources that can be renewed
Monarchy
Renewable Resources
Cultural diffusion
Urbanization
46. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Folk Culture
Isogloss
Population Density
Birth Rate
47. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Birthrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Determinism
48. 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)
Environmental Perception
Folk Architecture
Culture
49. 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
Toponym
Economic System
Total Fertility Rate
Dictatorship
50. 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
Ethnic Neighborhood
Pull Factors
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism