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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Cultural diffusion
Refugee
Stimulus Diffusion
Acculturation
2. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Mobility
Import
Linguistic Refuge Area
Dialect
3. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Chain Migration
Sex Ratio
Cultural Region
4. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nonrenewable Resources
Nation-State
Refugee
Indigenous Culture
5. 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 Group
Cultural Simplification
Folk Architecture
6. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Isogloss
Total Fertility Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Assimilation
7. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Death Rate
Culture
Barrio
Ethnic Cleansing
8. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
Renewable Resources
Ghetto
9. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Creole
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnoburb
10. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Non-Material Culture
Creole
Culture
11. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Mobility
Globalization
Assimilation
12. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
Tariffs
13. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Geography
Developing Countries
Quota
14. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural diffusion
Dependent People
Emigrate
15. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Region
Dictatorship
Subsistence Economy
Subculture
16. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Nonrenewable Resources
Contagious Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Relocation Diffusion
17. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Popular Culture
Lingua Franca
Return Migration
Colonialism
18. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Return Migration
Nation-State
Place
Environmental Determinism
19. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Flag
Pidgin
Material Culture
20. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Place
Import
Migration
Cultural Region
21. Massacre of a particular group
Barrio
Literary Tradition
Possibilism
Genocide
22. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Human Geography
Lingua Franca
Famine
Indigenous Culture
23. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Determinism
Population Pyramid
Folk Architecture
24. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Folk Architecture
Expansion Diffusion
Economic System
Dependent People
25. Resources that can be renewed
free trade
Economic System
Tariffs
Renewable Resources
26. One who can speak many languages
Ethnic Neighborhood
Polyglot
Human Geography
Expansion Diffusion
27. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Pidgin
Language Branch
Cultural Region
28. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Dictatorship
Quota
Total Fertility Rate
Geography
29. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Ethnic Group
Birth Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
30. Structures built in a traditional manner
Ethnolect
Pidgin
Export
Folk Architecture
31. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Bilingualism
Language Family
Democracy
32. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Environmental Determinism
free trade
Agroforestry
Dialect
33. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Birthrate
Bilingualism
Culture
34. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Geography
Language Family
Assimilation
Tariffs
35. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Genocide
Human Geography
Indigenous Culture
Dependent People
36. The growth of cities
Migration
Ethnic Group
Urbanization
Export
37. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Environmental Perception
Developed Country
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
38. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Population Density
Culture
Environmental Perception
Mobility
39. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Economic System
Folk Architecture
Stimulus Diffusion
40. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Folk Architecture
Subsistence Economy
slang
Renewable Resources
41. 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
Toponym
Possibilism
Dialect
Lingua Franca
42. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
free trade
Culture
Migration
Mobility
43. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Ethnolect
Bilingualism
Population Density
Assimilation
44. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Ethnic Neighborhood
Thomas Malthus
Chain Migration
Environmental Racism
45. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Pidgin
Developed Country
Emigrate
Ethnolect
46. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Culture
Globalization
Monarchy
Polyglot
47. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Emigrate
Ethnoburb
Dictatorship
Environmental Determinism
48. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Colonialism
slang
Death Rate
Environmental Perception
49. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Refugee
Pull Factors
Population Pyramid
Chain Migration
50. Population geography
Developing Countries
Subculture
Dependent People
Geo-demography