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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. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Mobility
Emigrate
Human Geography
Folk Culture
2. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Chain Migration
Literary Tradition
3. Population geography
Geo-demography
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Tariffs
4. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Push factors
Human Geography
Mobility
5. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
free trade
Lingua Franca
Bilingualism
Language
6. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Environmental Perception
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Geography
Assimilation
7. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Race
Environmental Determinism
Refugee
8. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Involuntary Migration
Toponym
Popular Culture
9. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Barrio
Population Pyramid
Cultural diffusion
Environmental Perception
10. 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
Culture
Developing Countries
Bilingualism
11. A language with a writing system
Folk Architecture
Civilization
Literary Tradition
Tariffs
12. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Toponym
Nonrenewable Resources
Tariffs
Cultural Diffusion
13. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Environmental Perception
Expansion Diffusion
Folk Architecture
14. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Expansion Diffusion
free trade
Permeable Barrier
Popular Culture
15. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Cultural Region
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnolect
slang
16. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Indigenous Culture
Dialect
Cultural Simplification
Return Migration
17. The raising of plants or animals
Thomas Malthus
Culture
slang
Death Rate
18. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Possibilism
Ethnic Neighborhood
Geo-demography
Cultural Diffusion
19. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Environmental Determinism
Permeable Barrier
Folk Culture
Refugee
20. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Indigenous Culture
Thomas Malthus
Renewable Resources
Symbolic Landscape
21. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Tariffs
Push factors
Ethnic Cleansing
Death Rate
22. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Flag
Import
23. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Refugee
Literary Tradition
Place
Birthrate
24. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Non-Material Culture
Contagious Diffusion
25. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Population Density
Globalization
Total Fertility Rate
26. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Nonrenewable Resources
Total Fertility Rate
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence Economy
27. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Globalization
Polyglot
Mobility
Absorbing Barrier
28. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Environmental Racism
Language Branch
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Group
29. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Literary Tradition
Barrio
Colonialism
Natural Resources
30. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Non-Material Culture
Chain Migration
Cultural Diffusion
Dictatorship
31. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Possibilism
Creole
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Involuntary Migration
32. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
free trade
Language Family
Possibilism
Polyglot
33. One who can speak many languages
Stimulus Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Polyglot
Language
34. Resources that can be renewed
Material Culture
Birthrate
Renewable Resources
Democracy
35. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Dialect
Sex Ratio
Economic System
Globalization
36. To send goods to another country for sale
Indigenous Culture
Thomas Malthus
Birthrate
Export
37. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Creole
Monarchy
Sex Ratio
Cultural Simplification
38. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Globalization
Refugee
Environmental Racism
Economic System
39. Taxes on imports or exports
Birthrate
Cultural diffusion
Democracy
Tariffs
40. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Environmental Racism
Material Culture
Indigenous Culture
41. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Globalization
Cultural Diffusion
Subculture
Geography
42. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Push factors
Cultural Region
Death Rate
Return Migration
43. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Ethnic Cleansing
Language Branch
Import
Folk Culture
44. 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
Famine
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Renewable Resources
slang
45. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Environmental Determinism
Language
free trade
Expansion Diffusion
46. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Literary Tradition
Population Pyramid
Material Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries
47. A limitation on imports
Quota
Barrio
Population Pyramid
Folk Architecture
48. 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
Return Migration
Thomas Malthus
Dependent People
Possibilism
49. Goods brought into a country
Death Rate
Migration
Literary Tradition
Import
50. 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
Culture
Return Migration
Monarchy
Dictatorship