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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Ethnic Neighborhood
Absorbing Barrier
Language
Dictatorship
2. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Folk Architecture
Chain Migration
Acculturation
Ethnic Group
3. The raising of plants or animals
Folk Architecture
Thomas Malthus
Culture
Nation-State
4. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Ethnic Flag
Subculture
Folk Architecture
5. 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
Human Geography
Refugee
Cultural Region
Possibilism
6. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Lingua Franca
Ghetto
Emigrate
Sex Ratio
7. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Geography
Dialect
Import
Ethnic Flag
8. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Barrio
Human Geography
Stimulus Diffusion
Globalization
9. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Acculturation
Cultural Region
Race
10. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
slang
Acculturation
Lingua Franca
Isogloss
11. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Indigenous Culture
Globalization
Symbolic Landscape
Mobility
12. A limitation on imports
Dependent People
Permeable Barrier
Quota
Monarchy
13. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Neighborhood
Possibilism
Permeable Barrier
14. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Thomas Malthus
Non-Material Culture
Push factors
Region
15. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Nonrenewable Resources
Expansion Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Population Density
16. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Population Density
Famine
Dialect
Barrio
17. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Cultural Simplification
Bilingualism
Culture
Involuntary Migration
18. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ethnolect
Environmental Determinism
Ghetto
Nonrenewable Resources
19. The growth of cities
Return Migration
Urbanization
Language Family
Barrio
20. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Cultural diffusion
Migration
Refugee
Pull Factors
21. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Thomas Malthus
Emigrate
free trade
Natural Resources
22. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Colonialism
Toponym
Monarchy
Birth Rate
23. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Return Migration
Developed Country
Ethnic Flag
free trade
24. A language with a writing system
Permeable Barrier
Return Migration
Literary Tradition
Region
25. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Globalization
Permeable Barrier
Ethnic Flag
Relocation Diffusion
26. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Newly Industrialized Countries
Globalization
Ghetto
Birthrate
27. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Birth Rate
Folk Culture
Cultural Region
28. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Race
29. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Quota
Nonrenewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Globalization
30. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Perception
31. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Contagious Diffusion
Folk Culture
Nation-State
Colonialism
32. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Quota
Democracy
Folk Culture
33. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Ethnolect
Place
Barrio
Cultural diffusion
34. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Popular Culture
Place
free trade
Cultural Diffusion
35. A government ruled by a king or queen
Natural Resources
Subsistence Economy
Democracy
Monarchy
36. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Group
Pidgin
Absorbing Barrier
37. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Region
Ethnoburb
Language Branch
Bilingualism
38. 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
Race
Export
Polyglot
39. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Linguistic Refuge Area
Refugee
Folk Culture
Language Family
40. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Ethnic Neighborhood
Barrio
Emigrate
Import
41. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Stimulus Diffusion
Subculture
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Perception
42. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Death Rate
Environmental Perception
Cultural Region
Bilingualism
43. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Environmental Racism
Death Rate
Language
44. Structures built in a traditional manner
Population Density
Ghetto
Folk Architecture
Subsistence Economy
45. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Economic System
Environmental Racism
Population Pyramid
Race
46. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Environmental Determinism
Civilization
Permeable Barrier
Indigenous Culture
47. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Popular Culture
Chain Migration
Economic System
Dependent People
48. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Genocide
Isogloss
Population Pyramid
Subculture
49. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Group
Language
Developing Countries
50. Highly developed cultures
Pull Factors
Ethnic Group
Bilingualism
Civilization
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