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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Language Family
Environmental Determinism
Material Culture
Indigenous Culture
2. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Pull Factors
Export
Ethnoburb
slang
3. Structures built in a traditional manner
Cultural Simplification
Agroforestry
Folk Architecture
Language Family
4. 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
Newly Industrialized Countries
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Non-Material Culture
Population Density
5. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Permeable Barrier
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Cleansing
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Possibilism
Population Pyramid
Race
Quota
7. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Bilingualism
Subculture
Popular Culture
8. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Relocation Diffusion
Refugee
Language Family
Death Rate
9. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Absorbing Barrier
Toponym
Pidgin
10. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Birth Rate
Ethnoburb
Relocation Diffusion
Colonialism
11. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Barrio
Environmental Determinism
Nonrenewable Resources
12. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Involuntary Migration
Language Family
Natural Resources
Cultural Region
13. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Pull Factors
Birthrate
Creole
Polyglot
14. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Cultural diffusion
Migration
Ethnoburb
Culture
15. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
Developed Country
Chain Migration
16. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Permeable Barrier
Bilingualism
Mobility
Nonrenewable Resources
17. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Birth Rate
Cultural diffusion
Place
Polyglot
18. Original inhabitants of an area
Ethnic Neighborhood
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
Birthrate
19. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Newly Industrialized Countries
Expansion Diffusion
Folk Culture
20. A limitation on imports
Language Branch
Subsistence Economy
Ethnic Group
Quota
21. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Culture
Cultural diffusion
Lingua Franca
22. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Cultural Region
Chain Migration
Monarchy
Globalization
23. The young and the old in a society who need care
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subsistence Economy
Cultural Diffusion
Dependent People
24. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Population Density
Cultural Simplification
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
25. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Relocation Diffusion
free trade
Renewable Resources
26. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
Death Rate
Export
27. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Symbolic Landscape
Sex Ratio
Urbanization
Nation-State
28. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Cleansing
Export
Thomas Malthus
Nation-State
29. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Non-Material Culture
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
Newly Industrialized Countries
30. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Possibilism
Cultural diffusion
Environmental Perception
31. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Symbolic Landscape
Expansion Diffusion
32. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Literary Tradition
Eco-feminism
Environmental Racism
Place
33. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Popular Culture
Tariffs
Dependent People
34. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Pull Factors
Birth Rate
Popular Culture
Population Pyramid
35. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Race
Bilingualism
Nonrenewable Resources
Developing Countries
36. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Newly Industrialized Countries
Permeable Barrier
Language Family
Human Geography
37. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Acculturation
Globalization
Assimilation
Region
38. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Stimulus Diffusion
Sex Ratio
Language
39. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Isogloss
Ghetto
Culture
40. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Ethnolect
Genocide
Geo-demography
41. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Renewable Resources
Death Rate
Ethnoburb
42. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Subsistence Economy
Place
Language Family
Developing Countries
43. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Barrio
Sex Ratio
Assimilation
44. A government ruled by a king or queen
Nation-State
Material Culture
Monarchy
Folk Architecture
45. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Human Geography
Ethnoburb
Birth Rate
Possibilism
46. Goods brought into a country
Cultural Region
Import
Non-Material Culture
Total Fertility Rate
47. 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
Pidgin
Colonialism
Assimilation
Dictatorship
48. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Language Branch
Pidgin
Ethnolect
Absorbing Barrier
49. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnolect
Mobility
Language
50. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Language Branch
Environmental Determinism
Refugee
Import