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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Economic System
Linguistic Refuge Area
Environmental Determinism
2. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Subculture
Famine
Birth Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
3. The numerical ratio of males to females
Folk Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Tariffs
Sex Ratio
4. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
Toponym
Dependent People
5. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ghetto
Push factors
Globalization
Bilingualism
6. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Region
Nation-State
Assimilation
Symbolic Landscape
7. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Famine
Push factors
Globalization
8. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Dictatorship
Quota
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Perception
9. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Democracy
Economic System
Relocation Diffusion
Popular Culture
10. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Literary Tradition
Polyglot
Birth Rate
Environmental Determinism
11. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Environmental Perception
Monarchy
Globalization
Ethnoburb
12. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Language Branch
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Assimilation
13. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Population Pyramid
Subsistence Economy
Death Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
14. The growth of cities
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Famine
Urbanization
15. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Agroforestry
Economic System
Thomas Malthus
free trade
16. Population geography
Barrio
Geo-demography
Dictatorship
Thomas Malthus
17. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Developing Countries
Environmental Racism
Push factors
Acculturation
18. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Contagious Diffusion
Eco-feminism
Bilingualism
Birthrate
19. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Population Pyramid
Absorbing Barrier
Death Rate
Nation-State
20. Structures built in a traditional manner
Famine
Folk Architecture
Culture
Environmental Racism
21. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Possibilism
Renewable Resources
Population Density
22. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Language Family
Ethnolect
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Cleansing
23. Place-name
Ghetto
Toponym
Dialect
Environmental Perception
24. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Permeable Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Indigenous Culture
slang
25. A government ruled by a king or queen
slang
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Monarchy
26. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Folk Culture
Polyglot
Colonialism
27. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Globalization
Refugee
Cultural Region
Mobility
28. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Language
Urbanization
Geo-demography
Creole
29. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Bilingualism
Symbolic Landscape
Death Rate
Sex Ratio
30. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Dialect
Pull Factors
Urbanization
Ethnolect
31. The raising of plants or animals
Famine
Indigenous Culture
Culture
Environmental Determinism
32. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Geography
Folk Culture
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
33. Highly developed cultures
Refugee
Folk Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Civilization
34. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Civilization
Folk Culture
Dialect
35. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Culture
Environmental Determinism
free trade
Relocation Diffusion
36. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Geo-demography
Polyglot
37. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Dialect
Globalization
Stimulus Diffusion
38. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
slang
free trade
Chain Migration
Involuntary Migration
39. 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
Sex Ratio
Refugee
Dictatorship
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
40. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Cultural Region
Population Density
Culture
Globalization
41. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Birth Rate
Urbanization
Economic System
Stimulus Diffusion
42. 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
Monarchy
slang
Pidgin
43. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Dependent People
Permeable Barrier
Ethnic Flag
Assimilation
44. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Quota
Race
Language Family
Culture
45. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ghetto
Emigrate
Folk Culture
Colonialism
46. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Language
Material Culture
Dialect
Globalization
47. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Agroforestry
slang
Dependent People
48. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Thomas Malthus
Refugee
Popular Culture
Folk Culture
49. Resources that can be renewed
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Renewable Resources
Culture
50. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Toponym
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
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