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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. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Possibilism
Emigrate
Migration
Death Rate
2. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Barrio
Refugee
Isogloss
3. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Acculturation
Migration
Subculture
Colonialism
4. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Toponym
Ethnic Group
Nonrenewable Resources
Agroforestry
5. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Region
Creole
Refugee
Environmental Determinism
6. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
Pull Factors
Symbolic Landscape
7. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Geo-demography
Place
Ethnic Cleansing
Thomas Malthus
8. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Language Branch
Migration
Push factors
Birthrate
9. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Monarchy
Ethnic Group
Place
10. Population geography
Genocide
Geo-demography
Ethnolect
Ethnic Group
11. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Refugee
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Architecture
Cultural Diffusion
12. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Death Rate
Population Density
Chain Migration
13. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Folk Culture
Emigrate
Bilingualism
Contagious Diffusion
14. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Ethnic Group
Language Branch
Subsistence Economy
Creole
15. Original inhabitants of an area
Push factors
Indigenous Culture
Chain Migration
Culture
16. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Environmental Perception
Place
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
17. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Export
Death Rate
18. A limitation on imports
Geo-demography
Quota
Region
Democracy
19. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Emigrate
Environmental Determinism
Thomas Malthus
20. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Polyglot
Language Family
21. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Lingua Franca
Pidgin
free trade
Permeable Barrier
22. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Race
Creole
Folk Architecture
Death Rate
23. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
Race
24. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Absorbing Barrier
Language Branch
Language
Agroforestry
25. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Thomas Malthus
slang
Mobility
26. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Lingua Franca
Geo-demography
Region
Race
27. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Total Fertility Rate
Renewable Resources
Bilingualism
Dialect
28. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Renewable Resources
Globalization
Emigrate
Ethnolect
29. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Migration
Environmental Determinism
Human Geography
Pull Factors
30. 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
Cultural Simplification
Death Rate
31. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Ethnic Flag
Emigrate
Mobility
Creole
32. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Dialect
Nonrenewable Resources
Developing Countries
Stimulus Diffusion
33. Place-name
Creole
Contagious Diffusion
Literary Tradition
Toponym
34. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Creole
Environmental Racism
Barrio
35. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Subculture
Mobility
Pidgin
Language Branch
36. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Population Density
Globalization
Return Migration
37. Resources that can be renewed
Permeable Barrier
Renewable Resources
Economic System
Birth Rate
38. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Democracy
Barrio
Dependent People
Symbolic Landscape
39. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Linguistic Refuge Area
Contagious Diffusion
Democracy
40. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Absorbing Barrier
Globalization
Monarchy
Language Branch
41. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
Migration
42. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Geography
free trade
Nation-State
Chain Migration
43. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Natural Resources
Environmental Perception
Polyglot
Birthrate
44. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Folk Culture
Population Density
Quota
45. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Urbanization
Birthrate
Export
Cultural Diffusion
46. 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
Nation-State
Developed Country
Symbolic Landscape
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
47. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Possibilism
Involuntary Migration
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
48. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Cultural Diffusion
Birth Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
49. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Population Density
Refugee
50. A graph used to show age and sex composition
free trade
Quota
Globalization
Population Pyramid