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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Resources that can be renewed
Birthrate
Renewable Resources
Geo-demography
Dialect
2. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Language
Subculture
Pull Factors
Cultural diffusion
3. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Region
Race
Ethnic Neighborhood
Expansion Diffusion
4. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Ghetto
Migration
Mobility
Push factors
5. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Culture
Return Migration
Isogloss
Economic System
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Death Rate
Language Branch
Democracy
Race
7. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Globalization
Refugee
Subculture
8. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Migration
Dependent People
Contagious Diffusion
9. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Tariffs
Environmental Racism
Expansion Diffusion
10. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Chain Migration
Geography
Language
Quota
11. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Eco-feminism
Culture
Globalization
12. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Contagious Diffusion
Creole
Developing Countries
Human Geography
13. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Cultural Region
Language Family
Pidgin
Linguistic Refuge Area
14. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Sex Ratio
Pull Factors
Cultural Region
15. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Refugee
Polyglot
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
16. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Environmental Perception
Dictatorship
Total Fertility Rate
Acculturation
17. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Thomas Malthus
Place
Bilingualism
18. The numerical ratio of males to females
Economic System
Sex Ratio
Environmental Determinism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
19. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Export
Civilization
Migration
20. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Death Rate
Natural Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Developed Country
21. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Language
Cultural Diffusion
Popular Culture
Famine
22. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Mobility
Language
Toponym
23. Massacre of a particular group
Population Density
Migration
Agroforestry
Genocide
24. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Language Branch
Environmental Racism
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Region
25. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
Monarchy
Environmental Determinism
26. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Emigrate
Subsistence Economy
Acculturation
27. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Tariffs
Nation-State
Folk Architecture
Ghetto
28. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Urbanization
Toponym
Natural Resources
Dialect
29. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Barrio
Mobility
Pull Factors
Language Branch
30. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Environmental Racism
Population Density
Agroforestry
Ethnic Group
31. 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
Dictatorship
Push factors
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Group
32. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
slang
Non-Material Culture
Geography
33. The growth of cities
Permeable Barrier
Monarchy
Region
Urbanization
34. 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
Ethnic Neighborhood
Colonialism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Famine
35. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Push factors
Death Rate
Ghetto
36. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Language Branch
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
37. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Eco-feminism
Place
Emigrate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
38. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Dialect
Return Migration
Population Pyramid
Population Density
39. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Language
Dictatorship
Ghetto
Emigrate
40. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Culture
Ethnic Group
Renewable Resources
41. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Cultural diffusion
Famine
Cultural Simplification
Permeable Barrier
42. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Return Migration
Colonialism
Monarchy
Popular Culture
43. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Total Fertility Rate
Colonialism
Place
Cultural diffusion
44. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Region
Isogloss
Lingua Franca
45. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
Emigrate
46. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Ethnoburb
Involuntary Migration
Folk Culture
47. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Place
Folk Architecture
Stimulus Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
48. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Quota
Ethnic Neighborhood
Polyglot
Material Culture
49. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Subculture
Death Rate
Return Migration
Globalization
50. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Total Fertility Rate
Pull Factors
Isogloss
Globalization
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