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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language Branch
Cultural diffusion
Ghetto
2. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Colonialism
Environmental Racism
Monarchy
3. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Total Fertility Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
4. Highly developed cultures
Nation-State
Civilization
Culture
Lingua Franca
5. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Culture
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
6. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Ethnolect
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
Language Branch
7. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Dictatorship
Geography
Human Geography
Emigrate
8. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Relocation Diffusion
Population Density
Dialect
Ethnoburb
9. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Language Family
Globalization
Natural Resources
Assimilation
10. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Toponym
Dependent People
Ethnic Group
Dialect
11. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Monarchy
Pidgin
12. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Bilingualism
Globalization
Monarchy
Mobility
13. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Chain Migration
Language Family
Environmental Perception
Quota
14. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Race
Language
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
15. 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
Globalization
Agroforestry
Sex Ratio
Dictatorship
16. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Non-Material Culture
Isogloss
Cultural Simplification
17. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Toponym
Emigrate
Civilization
Permeable Barrier
18. Massacre of a particular group
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
Race
Population Density
19. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Environmental Determinism
Dictatorship
Export
Non-Material Culture
20. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Folk Architecture
Involuntary Migration
Death Rate
Ghetto
21. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Folk Architecture
Civilization
Globalization
Mobility
22. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Chain Migration
Literary Tradition
Eco-feminism
23. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Bilingualism
Culture
Emigrate
24. Resources that can be renewed
Newly Industrialized Countries
Popular Culture
Environmental Perception
Renewable Resources
25. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
Acculturation
Lingua Franca
26. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ghetto
Bilingualism
Birth Rate
Geography
27. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Economic System
Acculturation
Cultural Region
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
28. 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
Popular Culture
Migration
Possibilism
Permeable Barrier
29. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Language Branch
Environmental Determinism
Globalization
Dependent People
30. Original inhabitants of an area
Subsistence Economy
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Indigenous Culture
31. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Group
Export
Quota
Place
32. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Toponym
Place
Chain Migration
33. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Monarchy
Developed Country
Expansion Diffusion
Genocide
34. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Lingua Franca
Refugee
Developed Country
Place
35. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
slang
Mobility
Subculture
Cultural diffusion
36. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Ethnic Neighborhood
free trade
Stimulus Diffusion
Human Geography
37. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Dependent People
Geo-demography
Relocation Diffusion
Developed Country
38. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Pidgin
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
39. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Globalization
Lingua Franca
Symbolic Landscape
40. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Cultural Simplification
Migration
Developing Countries
Birthrate
41. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Language
Civilization
Cultural Simplification
42. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
Creole
Pidgin
43. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Birthrate
Contagious Diffusion
Isogloss
Death Rate
44. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Dependent People
Material Culture
Eco-feminism
Toponym
45. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Cultural diffusion
Import
Pull Factors
46. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Quota
Return Migration
Globalization
47. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Return Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Geography
Acculturation
48. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Literary Tradition
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Cleansing
Region
49. Population geography
Bilingualism
Death Rate
Ethnic Group
Geo-demography
50. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Renewable Resources
Acculturation
Race
Ethnic Flag