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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. Taxes on imports or exports
Culture
Famine
Tariffs
Renewable Resources
2. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Group
Toponym
3. Economy where people consume only what they produce
free trade
Absorbing Barrier
Subsistence Economy
Refugee
4. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Human Geography
Folk Culture
Toponym
Developing Countries
5. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Refugee
Death Rate
free trade
Dependent People
6. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Culture
Non-Material Culture
Eco-feminism
Push factors
7. The young and the old in a society who need care
Acculturation
Death Rate
Dependent People
Relocation Diffusion
8. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Export
Cultural diffusion
9. Original inhabitants of an area
Subsistence Economy
Indigenous Culture
Cultural diffusion
Environmental Determinism
10. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Popular Culture
Pidgin
Migration
Refugee
11. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Environmental Perception
Chain Migration
Absorbing Barrier
12. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Linguistic Refuge Area
Race
Contagious Diffusion
Pidgin
13. Goods brought into a country
Natural Resources
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Import
14. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Newly Industrialized Countries
Refugee
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
15. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Creole
Bilingualism
Material Culture
Language Branch
16. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Geography
Urbanization
Developing Countries
Symbolic Landscape
17. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
Natural Resources
Thomas Malthus
18. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Death Rate
Pidgin
Ethnic Cleansing
Democracy
19. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Stimulus Diffusion
Developing Countries
Involuntary Migration
20. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Barrio
Genocide
Nation-State
Death Rate
21. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ghetto
Dialect
Symbolic Landscape
Race
22. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Possibilism
Globalization
Total Fertility Rate
23. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Return Migration
Dictatorship
Language Family
24. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Pidgin
Environmental Perception
Language Family
25. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Pull Factors
Barrio
26. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Renewable Resources
Death Rate
Language
Push factors
27. Government ruled by the people
Quota
Democracy
Urbanization
free trade
28. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Import
Migration
Environmental Determinism
Colonialism
29. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Involuntary Migration
Ethnoburb
Geography
Language Branch
30. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Birthrate
Human Geography
Dialect
Tariffs
31. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Globalization
Culture
Developing Countries
Region
32. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Flag
Polyglot
Refugee
33. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Subculture
Ethnolect
Barrio
Dialect
34. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Geography
Region
Quota
Folk Culture
35. The raising of plants or animals
Death Rate
Thomas Malthus
Literary Tradition
Culture
36. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Barrio
Subsistence Economy
Linguistic Refuge Area
Isogloss
37. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
slang
Globalization
Refugee
Push factors
38. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Assimilation
Chain Migration
Polyglot
Return Migration
39. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Polyglot
Dialect
Nonrenewable Resources
Agroforestry
40. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Popular Culture
Urbanization
Assimilation
Push factors
41. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language Branch
Export
Total Fertility Rate
42. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Population Pyramid
Globalization
Population Density
43. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Economic System
Globalization
Mobility
Pidgin
44. 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
Quota
Ethnic Group
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
45. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Lingua Franca
Ethnoburb
Popular Culture
Folk Culture
46. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
Creole
Toponym
47. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Dialect
Emigrate
Environmental Racism
free trade
48. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Isogloss
Monarchy
Dialect
Bilingualism
49. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Agroforestry
Pidgin
Expansion Diffusion
50. 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
Renewable Resources
Cultural diffusion
Refugee