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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. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Renewable Resources
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
2. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Pull Factors
free trade
Sex Ratio
Total Fertility Rate
3. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Cultural Simplification
Toponym
Folk Culture
4. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Total Fertility Rate
Language Family
Quota
5. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Eco-feminism
Non-Material Culture
Civilization
Thomas Malthus
6. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Dictatorship
Globalization
Globalization
Ethnic Neighborhood
7. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Refugee
Creole
Import
8. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Monarchy
Total Fertility Rate
Nation-State
Environmental Perception
9. To send goods to another country for sale
Environmental Determinism
Geography
Export
Natural Resources
10. Taxes on imports or exports
Cultural diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Flag
Tariffs
11. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Region
Geography
Assimilation
Sex Ratio
12. A government ruled by a king or queen
Permeable Barrier
Monarchy
Newly Industrialized Countries
Environmental Perception
13. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Barrio
Emigrate
Dialect
Creole
14. The growth of cities
Culture
Urbanization
Cultural Diffusion
Polyglot
15. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Material Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Language
16. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Absorbing Barrier
Linguistic Refuge Area
Eco-feminism
Natural Resources
17. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Ethnic Cleansing
Eco-feminism
Involuntary Migration
Lingua Franca
18. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Mobility
Place
Colonialism
19. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Place
Folk Culture
Ghetto
Pull Factors
20. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Subsistence Economy
Dialect
Race
Indigenous Culture
21. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Mobility
Bilingualism
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Group
22. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Monarchy
Absorbing Barrier
Popular Culture
23. 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
Developed Country
Possibilism
Place
Ethnic Group
24. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Export
Genocide
Cultural diffusion
Ethnolect
25. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Dialect
Involuntary Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Region
26. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Dialect
Cultural Region
Developed Country
27. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Relocation Diffusion
Genocide
Ethnic Group
Race
28. Goods brought into a country
Refugee
Genocide
Subculture
Import
29. Place-name
Race
Toponym
Sex Ratio
Involuntary Migration
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
Symbolic Landscape
Death Rate
Natural Resources
Dictatorship
31. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Popular Culture
Developed Country
Mobility
Environmental Perception
32. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Subculture
Geography
Death Rate
33. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Ethnolect
Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
34. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Culture
Ghetto
Genocide
35. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Language Branch
Indigenous Culture
Ethnoburb
Economic System
36. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnoburb
Geography
37. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Cultural Diffusion
Assimilation
Thomas Malthus
38. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Agroforestry
Culture
Ghetto
Colonialism
39. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Refugee
Language Family
Return Migration
Ethnic Group
40. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Emigrate
Ethnoburb
Famine
41. Resources that can be renewed
Nonrenewable Resources
Renewable Resources
Globalization
Ethnolect
42. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Chain Migration
Creole
Subculture
Barrio
43. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Eco-feminism
Globalization
Pull Factors
Refugee
44. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Population Pyramid
Dependent People
Colonialism
Ethnoburb
45. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Material Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Relocation Diffusion
Death Rate
46. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Ghetto
Push factors
Eco-feminism
Language
47. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Language Branch
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Culture
Nation-State
48. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Folk Architecture
Nation-State
Push factors
Barrio
49. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Assimilation
Famine
Material Culture
Birth Rate
50. Massacre of a particular group
Non-Material Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Genocide