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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Isogloss
Cultural diffusion
Dialect
Ethnic Flag
2. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Subsistence Economy
Cultural Simplification
Ethnolect
Absorbing Barrier
3. Resources that can be renewed
Ethnic Flag
Renewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
Dialect
4. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Pull Factors
Dialect
Subculture
Ghetto
5. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Geo-demography
Environmental Perception
Expansion Diffusion
Subculture
6. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Assimilation
Sex Ratio
Expansion Diffusion
Region
7. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Economic System
Export
Language Family
Ethnic Neighborhood
8. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnic Cleansing
Assimilation
Quota
9. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Diffusion
Popular Culture
Environmental Racism
10. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Dependent People
Economic System
Globalization
Creole
11. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Possibilism
Monarchy
Population Pyramid
Permeable Barrier
12. Goods brought into a country
Dictatorship
Famine
Import
Migration
13. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Language
free trade
Geography
Cultural diffusion
14. Structures built in a traditional manner
Language Family
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Architecture
Total Fertility Rate
15. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Cultural diffusion
Pidgin
Region
Total Fertility Rate
16. One who can speak many languages
Acculturation
Polyglot
Non-Material Culture
Democracy
17. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Barrio
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subculture
Emigrate
18. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Developed Country
Ghetto
Natural Resources
19. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Language Branch
Nonrenewable Resources
Globalization
Developing Countries
20. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Quota
Population Density
Region
21. The growth of cities
Barrio
Urbanization
Environmental Determinism
Import
22. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Linguistic Refuge Area
Folk Culture
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
23. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Linguistic Refuge Area
Absorbing Barrier
Assimilation
Famine
24. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Civilization
Bilingualism
Indigenous Culture
25. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Neighborhood
Race
Total Fertility Rate
26. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Agroforestry
Thomas Malthus
Colonialism
27. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Cultural Region
Nonrenewable Resources
Colonialism
Mobility
28. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Refugee
free trade
Subculture
Ethnic Group
29. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Folk Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Developed Country
Ethnic Cleansing
30. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Cultural Diffusion
Bilingualism
Famine
31. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Ethnoburb
Birthrate
Language Branch
Relocation Diffusion
32. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Symbolic Landscape
Mobility
Developing Countries
Natural Resources
33. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Export
Pull Factors
Isogloss
Refugee
34. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Agroforestry
Migration
Ethnic Group
35. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Total Fertility Rate
Lingua Franca
Eco-feminism
Dialect
36. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Genocide
Absorbing Barrier
Indigenous Culture
37. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
Region
Culture
38. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Literary Tradition
Relocation Diffusion
Population Pyramid
Creole
39. A government ruled by a king or queen
Cultural Diffusion
Nation-State
Monarchy
Place
40. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Polyglot
Death Rate
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Neighborhood
41. Population geography
Export
Geo-demography
Linguistic Refuge Area
Barrio
42. The raising of plants or animals
Ethnolect
Culture
Language Family
Famine
43. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Race
Lingua Franca
Involuntary Migration
44. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Return Migration
Bilingualism
Migration
Genocide
45. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Linguistic Refuge Area
Acculturation
Import
Push factors
46. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Total Fertility Rate
Economic System
Emigrate
Dependent People
47. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Agroforestry
Culture
48. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Assimilation
Eco-feminism
Dependent People
Relocation Diffusion
49. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Cultural Region
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Group
Ethnoburb
50. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Import
Migration
Push factors
Birthrate