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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The growth of cities
Bilingualism
Contagious Diffusion
Urbanization
Dialect
2. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Civilization
Indigenous Culture
Environmental Perception
3. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Death Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Literary Tradition
Natural Resources
4. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Cultural Region
Toponym
Folk Architecture
5. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Agroforestry
Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
6. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Popular Culture
Geography
Population Density
Geo-demography
7. Resources that can be renewed
free trade
Return Migration
Barrio
Renewable Resources
8. Structures built in a traditional manner
Total Fertility Rate
Folk Architecture
Eco-feminism
slang
9. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Geo-demography
Environmental Racism
Place
Race
10. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Toponym
Cultural Diffusion
Involuntary Migration
Symbolic Landscape
11. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Ghetto
Creole
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Density
12. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Migration
Emigrate
Ghetto
Ethnolect
13. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Creole
Dialect
Death Rate
Ethnolect
14. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence Economy
Dialect
Race
15. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Newly Industrialized Countries
Bilingualism
Population Pyramid
Chain Migration
16. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Race
Democracy
Lingua Franca
17. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Refugee
Language
Economic System
Geography
18. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Refugee
Quota
Renewable Resources
free trade
19. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Quota
Pidgin
Economic System
Total Fertility Rate
20. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Ethnoburb
21. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Natural Resources
Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Globalization
22. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Chain Migration
Race
Geography
23. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Return Migration
Ghetto
24. A limitation on imports
Isogloss
Acculturation
Quota
Ethnic Group
25. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Lingua Franca
Dictatorship
Expansion Diffusion
Urbanization
26. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Birthrate
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Simplification
Absorbing Barrier
27. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Subculture
Ethnoburb
Developing Countries
Ghetto
28. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Developing Countries
Polyglot
Ethnolect
29. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Chain Migration
Folk Architecture
Cultural diffusion
Subsistence Economy
30. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Emigrate
Democracy
Place
31. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Barrio
Non-Material Culture
Language Branch
Ethnic Neighborhood
32. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Natural Resources
Subsistence Economy
Permeable Barrier
Monarchy
33. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dictatorship
Chain Migration
Environmental Perception
34. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
Total Fertility Rate
Barrio
35. 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
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
36. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Cultural Simplification
Literary Tradition
Human Geography
Environmental Perception
37. 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
Ethnic Cleansing
Polyglot
Export
38. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Polyglot
Isogloss
Refugee
Ethnic Group
39. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Ghetto
Environmental Determinism
Subsistence Economy
40. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Thomas Malthus
Natural Resources
Birthrate
Population Density
41. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Racism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Emigrate
42. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Creole
Return Migration
Civilization
Globalization
43. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Total Fertility Rate
Population Pyramid
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnoburb
44. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Stimulus Diffusion
Quota
Pidgin
45. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Cultural Diffusion
Material Culture
46. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Region
Dictatorship
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
47. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Tariffs
Globalization
Democracy
Assimilation
48. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Refugee
free trade
Sex Ratio
Famine
49. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Environmental Racism
Language Family
Geo-demography
Popular Culture
50. 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
Famine
Possibilism
Thomas Malthus
Total Fertility Rate