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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
Geography
Developed Country
Dictatorship
Stimulus Diffusion
2. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Folk Architecture
Lingua Franca
Bilingualism
Expansion Diffusion
3. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Quota
Civilization
Indigenous Culture
Emigrate
4. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Human Geography
Pull Factors
Ethnic Neighborhood
5. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Thomas Malthus
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural Region
6. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Assimilation
Pidgin
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
7. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Eco-feminism
Environmental Determinism
8. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Possibilism
Literary Tradition
Region
Polyglot
9. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Geography
Language Branch
Birthrate
10. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Popular Culture
Culture
Ethnic Group
Pidgin
11. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Import
Developing Countries
Culture
Expansion Diffusion
12. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Symbolic Landscape
Language Branch
Developed Country
Economic System
13. 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)
Culture
Mobility
Stimulus Diffusion
14. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Quota
Death Rate
Assimilation
Cultural Diffusion
15. Place-name
Environmental Determinism
Geo-demography
slang
Toponym
16. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Symbolic Landscape
Language Family
Language Branch
Chain Migration
17. One who can speak many languages
Migration
Polyglot
Place
Involuntary Migration
18. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Birthrate
Mobility
Relocation Diffusion
Population Pyramid
19. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Dependent People
Dialect
Folk Culture
Migration
20. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Sex Ratio
Return Migration
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Region
21. Government ruled by the people
Acculturation
Human Geography
Ethnoburb
Democracy
22. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Refugee
Urbanization
Barrio
23. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Indigenous Culture
Environmental Perception
Developed Country
24. Massacre of a particular group
Push factors
Absorbing Barrier
Ghetto
Genocide
25. A language with a writing system
Possibilism
Absorbing Barrier
Literary Tradition
Dependent People
26. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Subsistence Economy
Non-Material Culture
Emigrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
27. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Sex Ratio
Possibilism
28. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Ethnoburb
Monarchy
Isogloss
Permeable Barrier
29. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Assimilation
Absorbing Barrier
Pull Factors
Nation-State
30. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ethnic Flag
Return Migration
Ghetto
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
31. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Toponym
Genocide
Subsistence Economy
Mobility
32. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Return Migration
Human Geography
Birthrate
Mobility
33. Structures built in a traditional manner
Globalization
Indigenous Culture
Folk Architecture
Non-Material Culture
34. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subculture
Population Density
Contagious Diffusion
35. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Absorbing Barrier
Acculturation
Thomas Malthus
Eco-feminism
36. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Globalization
Agroforestry
Population Density
37. The numerical ratio of males to females
Migration
Human Geography
Sex Ratio
Cultural Diffusion
38. Resources that can be renewed
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language Branch
Push factors
Renewable Resources
39. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Colonialism
Quota
Isogloss
Stimulus Diffusion
40. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Quota
Ethnic Cleansing
Sex Ratio
Environmental Perception
41. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Environmental Perception
Relocation Diffusion
Barrio
Import
42. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Language Family
Literary Tradition
Natural Resources
43. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Pidgin
Permeable Barrier
Refugee
Economic System
44. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Language Branch
Environmental Racism
Total Fertility Rate
Toponym
45. Taxes on imports or exports
Eco-feminism
Tariffs
free trade
Migration
46. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Material Culture
Dictatorship
Dialect
Refugee
47. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Mobility
Developed Country
Language Family
Chain Migration
48. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Dialect
Developing Countries
Place
Ethnic Cleansing
49. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Dependent People
Bilingualism
Relocation Diffusion
50. A limitation on imports
Economic System
Quota
Material Culture
Urbanization