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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Democracy
Ethnic Flag
Popular Culture
Death Rate
2. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Creole
Dialect
Birthrate
3. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Developing Countries
Refugee
Migration
4. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Relocation Diffusion
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
Sex Ratio
5. Original inhabitants of an area
Dependent People
Cultural diffusion
Indigenous Culture
Dialect
6. Taxes on imports or exports
Globalization
Dialect
Tariffs
Developing Countries
7. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Refugee
Creole
Developed Country
8. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Eco-feminism
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Flag
Death Rate
9. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Perception
Lingua Franca
Literary Tradition
10. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Chain Migration
Eco-feminism
11. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Possibilism
free trade
Ghetto
Permeable Barrier
12. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
Geography
Environmental Determinism
13. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
slang
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Agroforestry
14. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Permeable Barrier
Dictatorship
Globalization
Acculturation
15. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Import
Subculture
Emigrate
16. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Dialect
Dependent People
Region
17. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Folk Culture
Developing Countries
Pidgin
Culture
18. To send goods to another country for sale
Cultural Region
Export
Symbolic Landscape
Nation-State
19. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Culture
Civilization
Literary Tradition
20. Population geography
Genocide
Geo-demography
Birthrate
Ethnic Group
21. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Language
Natural Resources
Urbanization
Dialect
22. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Globalization
Population Density
Ethnic Flag
23. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Bilingualism
Non-Material Culture
Mobility
Involuntary Migration
24. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
free trade
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
25. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Flag
Subsistence Economy
Quota
26. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Polyglot
Pidgin
Thomas Malthus
27. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Population Density
Language Branch
Human Geography
28. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Globalization
Ethnic Cleansing
Dictatorship
Assimilation
29. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Pidgin
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
30. Place-name
Birth Rate
Permeable Barrier
Toponym
free trade
31. Resources that can be renewed
Chain Migration
Eco-feminism
Cultural Simplification
Renewable Resources
32. The young and the old in a society who need care
Permeable Barrier
Dependent People
Colonialism
Refugee
33. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Globalization
Environmental Determinism
Folk Architecture
Sex Ratio
34. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Sex Ratio
Push factors
Colonialism
Import
35. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Refugee
Linguistic Refuge Area
Folk Culture
36. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Mobility
Creole
Language
Colonialism
37. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Monarchy
Bilingualism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
38. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Thomas Malthus
Export
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
39. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Polyglot
Pidgin
Bilingualism
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Popular Culture
Geography
Ethnic Group
Material Culture
41. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Language Branch
Population Pyramid
Symbolic Landscape
Globalization
42. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
free trade
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnoburb
Ghetto
43. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Region
Dialect
Cultural Simplification
Ethnolect
44. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Renewable Resources
Globalization
Contagious Diffusion
Genocide
45. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Quota
Cultural Diffusion
Genocide
Globalization
46. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Agroforestry
47. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
Popular Culture
Population Pyramid
48. 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
Natural Resources
Death Rate
Region
Possibilism
49. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Possibilism
Place
Tariffs
50. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Pidgin
Colonialism
Genocide
Isogloss