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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Material Culture
Dialect
Ethnoburb
Language Family
2. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Human Geography
Isogloss
Cultural Diffusion
Developed Country
3. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Return Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Migration
4. A government ruled by a king or queen
Place
Language Branch
Monarchy
Non-Material Culture
5. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Population Pyramid
Ethnic Neighborhood
Culture
slang
6. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Involuntary Migration
Human Geography
Place
Death Rate
7. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Dependent People
Folk Culture
Pull Factors
8. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Monarchy
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
Assimilation
9. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Non-Material Culture
Culture
Famine
Geography
10. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Birth Rate
Place
Relocation Diffusion
11. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Dependent People
Geography
Creole
Globalization
12. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Racism
Developed Country
13. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Possibilism
free trade
Ethnolect
Material Culture
14. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Dialect
Environmental Perception
Polyglot
Environmental Racism
15. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Globalization
Ethnoburb
Cultural Region
Total Fertility Rate
16. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Non-Material Culture
Chain Migration
Emigrate
Economic System
17. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Flag
Subculture
Creole
18. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Colonialism
Ghetto
Region
Environmental Determinism
19. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Isogloss
Death Rate
Polyglot
20. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Non-Material Culture
Pidgin
Ethnic Flag
Population Density
21. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
Thomas Malthus
22. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Region
Folk Architecture
Birthrate
Folk Culture
23. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Migration
Symbolic Landscape
Monarchy
Geography
24. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Newly Industrialized Countries
Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
25. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Refugee
Globalization
Region
26. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Subculture
Language
Relocation Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
27. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Developing Countries
Dependent People
Agroforestry
Ethnic Neighborhood
28. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Cultural Diffusion
Place
Polyglot
Expansion Diffusion
29. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Cultural Region
Language
Economic System
30. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Dialect
Total Fertility Rate
Famine
Culture
31. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Economic System
Refugee
Death Rate
Absorbing Barrier
32. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Birth Rate
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Simplification
Import
33. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Push factors
Nation-State
Quota
Migration
34. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Involuntary Migration
Region
35. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Geo-demography
Race
Thomas Malthus
36. Highly developed cultures
free trade
Refugee
Tariffs
Civilization
37. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Environmental Determinism
Quota
Isogloss
38. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Population Density
Relocation Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Region
39. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Assimilation
Natural Resources
Ethnic Flag
40. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Mobility
Monarchy
Famine
41. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Cultural Simplification
Bilingualism
Culture
Acculturation
42. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Pidgin
Place
slang
Contagious Diffusion
43. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Language
Assimilation
Population Density
44. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Ethnic Group
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Population Pyramid
Globalization
45. Goods brought into a country
Pull Factors
Language
Import
Chain Migration
46. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Literary Tradition
Language
Ethnic Group
Sex Ratio
47. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Place
Nation-State
Creole
Death Rate
48. The numerical ratio of males to females
Creole
Stimulus Diffusion
Sex Ratio
Pull Factors
49. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Isogloss
Nonrenewable Resources
Globalization
Return Migration
50. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Cultural diffusion
Birth Rate
Indigenous Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries