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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. The growth of cities
Expansion Diffusion
Urbanization
Non-Material Culture
Ghetto
2. Government ruled by the people
Language
Democracy
Total Fertility Rate
Indigenous Culture
3. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Developed Country
Death Rate
Barrio
4. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
Refugee
Death Rate
5. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Total Fertility Rate
Permeable Barrier
Genocide
Developing Countries
6. Place-name
Toponym
Language
Push factors
Agroforestry
7. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Assimilation
8. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Democracy
Refugee
Death Rate
Eco-feminism
9. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Population Density
Relocation Diffusion
Pidgin
10. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Culture
Creole
Developed Country
11. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Contagious Diffusion
Death Rate
Globalization
Non-Material Culture
12. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Region
Renewable Resources
Democracy
Cultural Diffusion
13. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Stimulus Diffusion
Culture
Pidgin
Economic System
14. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Non-Material Culture
Bilingualism
Colonialism
Cultural Simplification
15. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Cultural Simplification
Culture
Creole
Death Rate
16. 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
Total Fertility Rate
Possibilism
Refugee
Environmental Racism
17. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Import
Symbolic Landscape
Language Branch
18. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Dependent People
Linguistic Refuge Area
Cultural Region
19. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Return Migration
Dialect
Chain Migration
Natural Resources
20. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Chain Migration
Symbolic Landscape
Geo-demography
Stimulus Diffusion
21. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Culture
Material Culture
Natural Resources
Population Density
22. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Linguistic Refuge Area
Migration
Folk Culture
Place
23. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Subculture
Refugee
Non-Material Culture
24. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Return Migration
Environmental Determinism
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Group
25. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Birth Rate
Tariffs
Ethnoburb
26. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Economic System
Famine
Death Rate
Human Geography
27. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Civilization
Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Return Migration
28. A government ruled by a king or queen
Population Density
Assimilation
Monarchy
Toponym
29. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Colonialism
Environmental Racism
Total Fertility Rate
30. Population geography
Population Pyramid
Quota
Geo-demography
Ethnic Cleansing
31. Structures built in a traditional manner
Non-Material Culture
Folk Architecture
Bilingualism
Tariffs
32. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Import
Democracy
Ethnoburb
33. Massacre of a particular group
Ghetto
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Genocide
Mobility
34. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Ethnolect
Language Family
Non-Material Culture
35. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Mobility
Environmental Perception
Linguistic Refuge Area
36. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Ghetto
Environmental Racism
Folk Culture
Involuntary Migration
37. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Refugee
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Pull Factors
38. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Language Branch
Population Pyramid
Eco-feminism
39. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Sex Ratio
Developed Country
Export
40. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Nation-State
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
Geo-demography
41. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
Language
42. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Globalization
free trade
Agroforestry
Culture
43. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Cleansing
Permeable Barrier
Nonrenewable Resources
44. Resources that can be renewed
Possibilism
Death Rate
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
45. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Famine
Total Fertility Rate
Emigrate
Involuntary Migration
46. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ethnolect
Symbolic Landscape
Ghetto
Nonrenewable Resources
47. 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
Language Branch
Lingua Franca
Stimulus Diffusion
Dictatorship
48. One who can speak many languages
Cultural Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Polyglot
Tariffs
49. 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
Death Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Non-Material Culture
Colonialism
50. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Agroforestry
Cultural diffusion
Place
Cultural Simplification
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