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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 dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnoburb
Ethnolect
Nation-State
Dictatorship
2. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Relocation Diffusion
Total Fertility Rate
Subculture
Folk Culture
3. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Absorbing Barrier
Natural Resources
Acculturation
Import
4. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Death Rate
Culture
Assimilation
5. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Dialect
Dependent People
Sex Ratio
Colonialism
6. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Place
Pidgin
Isogloss
Dependent People
7. The young and the old in a society who need care
Population Density
Ethnic Group
Dependent People
Language Branch
8. Goods brought into a country
Import
Culture
Place
Isogloss
9. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Polyglot
Material Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Culture
10. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Total Fertility Rate
Material Culture
Developing Countries
Ethnoburb
11. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Expansion Diffusion
Urbanization
Toponym
Symbolic Landscape
12. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Chain Migration
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nation-State
13. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Quota
Cultural diffusion
Isogloss
Migration
14. 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
Polyglot
Globalization
free trade
15. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Thomas Malthus
Globalization
Migration
Monarchy
16. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Cultural Simplification
Folk Culture
Globalization
Toponym
17. Place-name
Acculturation
Folk Culture
Toponym
Natural Resources
18. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Chain Migration
Place
Ethnic Flag
Democracy
19. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Place
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dialect
20. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Dependent People
Birth Rate
Emigrate
Ethnic Group
21. Taxes on imports or exports
Region
Tariffs
Newly Industrialized Countries
Population Density
22. Massacre of a particular group
Newly Industrialized Countries
Culture
Toponym
Genocide
23. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Non-Material Culture
Birth Rate
Dictatorship
Developing Countries
24. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Death Rate
Bilingualism
Permeable Barrier
Language Branch
25. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Natural Resources
Ethnolect
Death Rate
26. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
slang
Language
Chain Migration
Ethnolect
27. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Possibilism
Literary Tradition
Culture
Subculture
28. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Ethnic Group
Famine
Nonrenewable Resources
Geo-demography
29. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Indigenous Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Globalization
Subculture
30. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Toponym
Barrio
Environmental Determinism
31. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Indigenous Culture
Export
Ethnic Neighborhood
Polyglot
32. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Cultural Diffusion
Pull Factors
Folk Culture
Pidgin
33. Structures built in a traditional manner
Dependent People
Refugee
Subculture
Folk Architecture
34. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Quota
Death Rate
Stimulus Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
35. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ethnoburb
Death Rate
Eco-feminism
Ethnic Group
36. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Subculture
Developing Countries
Toponym
Economic System
37. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Toponym
Pidgin
Dialect
Quota
38. 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
Pidgin
Involuntary Migration
Export
39. 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)
Developing Countries
Death Rate
Language
40. To send goods to another country for sale
Race
Export
Renewable Resources
Material Culture
41. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Democracy
Language
Expansion Diffusion
42. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Population Pyramid
Pull Factors
Genocide
Birth Rate
43. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
slang
Folk Architecture
Push factors
Ethnic Cleansing
44. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Migration
Cultural diffusion
Toponym
45. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Environmental Perception
Colonialism
Dependent People
Chain Migration
46. Population geography
Folk Culture
Famine
Geo-demography
Lingua Franca
47. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Isogloss
Import
Language Branch
48. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
slang
Eco-feminism
Developing Countries
49. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Culture
Population Density
Agroforestry
Acculturation
50. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnic Neighborhood
Thomas Malthus
Folk Culture
Race