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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Government ruled by the people
Tariffs
Genocide
Democracy
Language Family
2. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Export
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
Pidgin
3. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Refugee
Civilization
Cultural Simplification
4. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Agroforestry
Geography
Environmental Determinism
Death Rate
5. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Pull Factors
slang
Quota
Geography
6. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Developed Country
Push factors
Ethnic Flag
Folk Architecture
7. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Emigrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Neighborhood
Thomas Malthus
8. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Tariffs
Natural Resources
Ethnic Group
9. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Lingua Franca
Non-Material Culture
Culture
10. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnolect
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnoburb
Race
11. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Environmental Perception
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Simplification
Eco-feminism
12. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
free trade
Language
Environmental Racism
Developing Countries
13. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Pidgin
Ethnolect
free trade
14. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Absorbing Barrier
Language Branch
Pull Factors
15. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
free trade
Permeable Barrier
Region
Polyglot
16. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Pull Factors
Pidgin
Nation-State
Refugee
17. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Dictatorship
Ethnic Group
Isogloss
18. The growth of cities
Migration
Globalization
Eco-feminism
Urbanization
19. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Environmental Determinism
Polyglot
Export
Ethnic Group
20. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Popular Culture
Human Geography
Environmental Racism
Environmental Perception
21. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Creole
Lingua Franca
free trade
Folk Architecture
22. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Toponym
Nation-State
Language Branch
Export
23. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Agroforestry
Population Pyramid
Indigenous Culture
Folk Architecture
24. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Migration
Geo-demography
Place
Ethnic Cleansing
25. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Language Branch
Lingua Franca
Developed Country
Symbolic Landscape
26. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Civilization
Total Fertility Rate
Dictatorship
Push factors
27. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Colonialism
Population Density
Subculture
28. 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)
Migration
Population Pyramid
Sex Ratio
29. To send goods to another country for sale
Refugee
Export
Ethnic Neighborhood
Stimulus Diffusion
30. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Tariffs
Culture
Chain Migration
31. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Globalization
Developing Countries
Cultural Region
32. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Language Branch
Environmental Racism
Acculturation
slang
33. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Barrio
Natural Resources
Language Branch
Colonialism
34. Original inhabitants of an area
Birth Rate
Ethnic Group
Indigenous Culture
Relocation Diffusion
35. Highly developed cultures
Non-Material Culture
Polyglot
Civilization
Contagious Diffusion
36. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Nation-State
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language Branch
37. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Race
Human Geography
Region
Nation-State
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
Developing Countries
Dictatorship
Quota
Natural Resources
39. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Mobility
Agroforestry
free trade
Nation-State
40. Population geography
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Geo-demography
Non-Material Culture
41. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Natural Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
Folk Culture
Barrio
42. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Import
Environmental Perception
Language
43. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Genocide
slang
Renewable Resources
Environmental Determinism
44. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Relocation Diffusion
Import
Creole
Agroforestry
45. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Cultural Region
Stimulus Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Acculturation
46. Taxes on imports or exports
Import
Indigenous Culture
Tariffs
Natural Resources
47. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Folk Architecture
Globalization
Ghetto
Civilization
48. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Globalization
Total Fertility Rate
Non-Material Culture
Migration
49. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Cultural diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Birthrate
Death Rate
50. Goods brought into a country
Region
Ethnoburb
Tariffs
Import