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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Developed Country
Barrio
Death Rate
Culture
2. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Pull Factors
slang
Race
Chain Migration
3. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Culture
Import
Economic System
Environmental Racism
4. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Creole
Sex Ratio
Cultural Diffusion
Eco-feminism
5. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Democracy
Language Branch
Developing Countries
Ethnic Group
6. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Ethnic Neighborhood
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnolect
Culture
7. 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
Refugee
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Export
Emigrate
8. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Ethnoburb
9. The growth of cities
Ethnic Flag
Colonialism
Ethnolect
Urbanization
10. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Mobility
Ethnolect
Urbanization
Polyglot
11. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Economic System
Region
Pull Factors
Dialect
12. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Quota
Dependent People
Eco-feminism
13. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Geo-demography
Region
Ethnic Flag
14. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Nation-State
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Diffusion
15. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Quota
Dependent People
Environmental Determinism
16. 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
Agroforestry
Environmental Determinism
Polyglot
Dictatorship
17. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Expansion Diffusion
Agroforestry
Famine
Contagious Diffusion
18. Goods brought into a country
Import
Death Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Urbanization
19. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Language Family
free trade
Subsistence Economy
20. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Geo-demography
Lingua Franca
Creole
Ethnic Group
21. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Agroforestry
Cultural Region
22. Massacre of a particular group
Nation-State
Return Migration
Dialect
Genocide
23. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Ethnic Flag
Quota
Language
24. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Quota
Race
Geo-demography
Literary Tradition
25. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Toponym
Language Branch
Refugee
26. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
Death Rate
Pidgin
27. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Birth Rate
Absorbing Barrier
Population Density
Dialect
28. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Language Branch
Emigrate
Colonialism
Developing Countries
29. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Ethnolect
Nonrenewable Resources
Barrio
Migration
30. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Import
Environmental Determinism
Population Pyramid
Nation-State
31. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Dependent People
Globalization
Developed Country
Subsistence Economy
32. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Culture
Environmental Racism
Globalization
Region
33. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Stimulus Diffusion
Assimilation
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnoburb
34. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Non-Material Culture
Assimilation
Creole
Possibilism
35. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Return Migration
Refugee
Bilingualism
Geography
36. One who can speak many languages
Popular Culture
Ethnic Group
Economic System
Polyglot
37. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Monarchy
Migration
Indigenous Culture
38. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Birthrate
Famine
Creole
39. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Refugee
Newly Industrialized Countries
Symbolic Landscape
Literary Tradition
40. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Death Rate
Isogloss
Ethnic Group
free trade
41. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Isogloss
Birthrate
Contagious Diffusion
Geography
42. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Nonrenewable Resources
Folk Culture
Thomas Malthus
Ethnolect
43. Original inhabitants of an area
Human Geography
Expansion Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Geo-demography
44. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Cleansing
Geo-demography
Ethnoburb
45. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Urbanization
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnic Cleansing
Geography
46. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Folk Culture
Renewable Resources
Material Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
47. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Cultural Diffusion
Nation-State
Ethnic Neighborhood
48. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Bilingualism
Language Family
Refugee
Natural Resources
49. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Bilingualism
Non-Material Culture
Language Branch
Symbolic Landscape
50. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Tariffs
Famine
Population Pyramid
Refugee