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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. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Folk Culture
Globalization
Ethnic Flag
Thomas Malthus
2. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Indigenous Culture
Language
Colonialism
Cultural Simplification
3. Massacre of a particular group
Thomas Malthus
Genocide
Indigenous Culture
Relocation Diffusion
4. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Famine
Death Rate
Genocide
Globalization
5. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Thomas Malthus
Birth Rate
Expansion Diffusion
6. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Folk Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Developing Countries
Genocide
7. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Death Rate
Cultural Diffusion
Agroforestry
8. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Ethnic Neighborhood
Refugee
Human Geography
Folk Architecture
9. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Bilingualism
Creole
Death Rate
Natural Resources
10. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Culture
Natural Resources
Environmental Racism
Culture
11. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Ethnolect
Agroforestry
Famine
Migration
12. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Dialect
Death Rate
Ethnolect
Pull Factors
13. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Geography
14. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Human Geography
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Group
15. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Population Density
Migration
Push factors
Culture
16. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Population Density
Absorbing Barrier
Famine
Assimilation
17. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Pidgin
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
18. The raising of plants or animals
Natural Resources
Globalization
Cultural Region
Culture
19. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Return Migration
free trade
Environmental Racism
Popular Culture
20. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Ethnic Flag
Contagious Diffusion
Dialect
21. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Literary Tradition
Material Culture
Cultural Simplification
22. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
Lingua Franca
23. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Group
Race
Mobility
24. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
slang
Population Density
Genocide
Ethnic Group
25. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Population Density
Place
26. Goods brought into a country
Agroforestry
Isogloss
Ethnic Cleansing
Import
27. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Language Branch
Barrio
Environmental Racism
Assimilation
28. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Return Migration
Thomas Malthus
Language Branch
Folk Culture
29. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Place
Geography
Tariffs
30. Taxes on imports or exports
Quota
Toponym
Ethnoburb
Tariffs
31. Resources that can be renewed
Creole
Relocation Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Race
32. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Return Migration
Cultural diffusion
Dialect
Agroforestry
33. 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
Population Density
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Cultural Diffusion
Dictatorship
34. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Environmental Determinism
Sex Ratio
slang
Refugee
35. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Death Rate
Population Density
Cultural Diffusion
Democracy
36. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Population Pyramid
Indigenous Culture
Non-Material Culture
Mobility
37. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Expansion Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Famine
Cultural Simplification
38. Highly developed cultures
Culture
Creole
Civilization
Language Branch
39. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Expansion Diffusion
Population Pyramid
Tariffs
40. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Dependent People
Ethnic Cleansing
Geography
Ethnoburb
41. Government ruled by the people
Sex Ratio
Democracy
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Group
42. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Death Rate
Birthrate
Eco-feminism
43. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Natural Resources
Culture
Chain Migration
Mobility
44. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Sex Ratio
Globalization
Linguistic Refuge Area
Environmental Determinism
45. 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)
Mobility
Birth Rate
Population Density
46. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Sex Ratio
Chain Migration
Relocation Diffusion
free trade
47. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Developing Countries
Export
Thomas Malthus
Globalization
48. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Developed Country
Cultural Simplification
Creole
Expansion Diffusion
49. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Birth Rate
Developed Country
Expansion Diffusion
50. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Dictatorship
Lingua Franca
Emigrate
free trade