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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. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Language Family
Place
Toponym
Mobility
2. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Birth Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language Family
Nation-State
3. The growth of cities
Cultural diffusion
Toponym
Population Density
Urbanization
4. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Birth Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Globalization
Culture
5. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Culture
Region
Place
Assimilation
6. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Lingua Franca
Assimilation
Natural Resources
7. The young and the old in a society who need care
Expansion Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dependent People
Environmental Determinism
8. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Developing Countries
Pull Factors
Birthrate
Race
9. A language with a writing system
Subculture
Literary Tradition
Expansion Diffusion
Pidgin
10. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Tariffs
Language
Nonrenewable Resources
Emigrate
11. A limitation on imports
Colonialism
Birth Rate
Quota
Language Family
12. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Ethnolect
Famine
Dialect
Stimulus Diffusion
13. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
Possibilism
14. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Dialect
Migration
Renewable Resources
Expansion Diffusion
15. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Pull Factors
Birth Rate
Language
16. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Relocation Diffusion
Developing Countries
Push factors
Population Pyramid
17. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Ethnolect
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Neighborhood
Environmental Determinism
18. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Eco-feminism
Push factors
Birthrate
Nation-State
19. Place-name
Toponym
Folk Architecture
slang
Dialect
20. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Developed Country
Folk Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
21. Highly developed cultures
Tariffs
Culture
Developing Countries
Civilization
22. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Import
Dependent People
Place
Pull Factors
23. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Creole
Ethnolect
Bilingualism
Developing Countries
24. Taxes on imports or exports
Race
Cultural Simplification
Tariffs
Creole
25. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Famine
Nonrenewable Resources
Assimilation
26. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Quota
Push factors
Indigenous Culture
Creole
27. Population geography
Geo-demography
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
Civilization
28. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Region
Permeable Barrier
Newly Industrialized Countries
free trade
29. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Culture
Developing Countries
Refugee
Polyglot
30. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dialect
Death Rate
31. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Language Branch
32. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
free trade
Nation-State
Contagious Diffusion
33. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Renewable Resources
Geography
Race
Barrio
34. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language
Language Family
free trade
Ethnolect
35. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Lingua Franca
Place
Newly Industrialized Countries
Barrio
36. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Developing Countries
Language Branch
Cultural diffusion
Popular Culture
37. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Symbolic Landscape
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
Developed Country
38. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Ethnic Group
Developed Country
Relocation Diffusion
Literary Tradition
39. 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
Cultural Diffusion
Possibilism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Famine
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnoburb
Folk Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Group
41. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Return Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
Permeable Barrier
Famine
42. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Geography
Developing Countries
Acculturation
Quota
43. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Permeable Barrier
Folk Architecture
Death Rate
Culture
44. Resources that can be renewed
Folk Culture
Pidgin
Mobility
Renewable Resources
45. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Race
Pidgin
Ethnic Flag
Genocide
46. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Ethnolect
Cultural Diffusion
Language Branch
Total Fertility Rate
47. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Permeable Barrier
Place
Ethnic Cleansing
48. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Famine
Relocation Diffusion
49. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Isogloss
Ethnic Cleansing
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Perception
50. Original inhabitants of an area
Genocide
Cultural Simplification
Colonialism
Indigenous Culture