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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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1. 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
Refugee
Barrio
Globalization
2. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
slang
Genocide
Pull Factors
Eco-feminism
3. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Human Geography
Lingua Franca
Popular Culture
Toponym
4. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Ethnic Cleansing
Material Culture
Death Rate
5. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Birthrate
Barrio
Population Density
Renewable Resources
6. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Pidgin
Famine
Emigrate
7. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Cultural Diffusion
Genocide
Chain Migration
Human Geography
8. Original inhabitants of an area
Environmental Perception
Folk Architecture
Indigenous Culture
Democracy
9. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
Nonrenewable Resources
Lingua Franca
10. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Human Geography
Colonialism
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Pyramid
11. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Globalization
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
12. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Total Fertility Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Geo-demography
13. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Pidgin
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Group
14. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
Return Migration
Genocide
15. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Cultural diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Import
16. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Geography
Dependent People
Renewable Resources
Cultural Region
17. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Globalization
Relocation Diffusion
Culture
Economic System
18. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Material Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Urbanization
Tariffs
19. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Toponym
Thomas Malthus
Symbolic Landscape
Democracy
20. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Racism
Mobility
Democracy
21. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
Subsistence Economy
Dialect
22. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Symbolic Landscape
Linguistic Refuge Area
Pidgin
Developed Country
23. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Civilization
Cultural Region
Dialect
Expansion Diffusion
24. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Colonialism
Cultural Simplification
25. Goods brought into a country
Environmental Perception
Absorbing Barrier
Relocation Diffusion
Import
26. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Folk Culture
free trade
Cultural Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
27. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Death Rate
Geo-demography
Language
Emigrate
28. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Push factors
Eco-feminism
Death Rate
29. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
free trade
Famine
Developing Countries
30. The young and the old in a society who need care
Cultural diffusion
Genocide
Dependent People
Bilingualism
31. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
Pidgin
Non-Material Culture
32. Structures built in a traditional manner
Symbolic Landscape
Import
Folk Architecture
Popular Culture
33. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Ethnic Flag
Civilization
Developed Country
34. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Language Branch
Natural Resources
Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
35. Highly developed cultures
Refugee
Folk Architecture
Civilization
Assimilation
36. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Genocide
Acculturation
Export
Chain Migration
37. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Ethnolect
Economic System
Nation-State
Language Family
38. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Nonrenewable Resources
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Flag
Absorbing Barrier
39. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Globalization
Nation-State
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
40. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Dialect
Birth Rate
free trade
41. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Environmental Perception
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Population Density
Ethnic Neighborhood
42. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Death Rate
Culture
Environmental Racism
Agroforestry
43. Place-name
Toponym
Developed Country
Emigrate
Nation-State
44. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Linguistic Refuge Area
Colonialism
Place
Ethnic Group
45. A language with a writing system
Subculture
Literary Tradition
Subsistence Economy
Language Family
46. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Natural Resources
Colonialism
Famine
Stimulus Diffusion
47. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Environmental Racism
Environmental Perception
48. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Possibilism
Economic System
Bilingualism
Folk Culture
49. The numerical ratio of males to females
Emigrate
Urbanization
Sex Ratio
Nation-State
50. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Creole
Push factors
Environmental Determinism
Mobility