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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Material Culture
Dialect
Creole
2. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Migration
Quota
Relocation Diffusion
3. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Racism
Material Culture
Geography
4. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Stimulus Diffusion
Developing Countries
Birthrate
Indigenous Culture
5. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Relocation Diffusion
Globalization
Birthrate
Ethnic Flag
6. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Birth Rate
Creole
Refugee
Democracy
7. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Renewable Resources
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Density
Expansion Diffusion
8. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Cultural Diffusion
Place
Folk Architecture
Tariffs
9. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Toponym
Material Culture
Cultural Region
Absorbing Barrier
10. A limitation on imports
Subsistence Economy
Quota
Folk Culture
Refugee
11. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
12. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
Colonialism
Democracy
13. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Dictatorship
Renewable Resources
Contagious Diffusion
Assimilation
14. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Ethnoburb
Culture
Death Rate
Possibilism
15. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
Relocation Diffusion
16. Economy where people consume only what they produce
free trade
Globalization
Stimulus Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
17. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnoburb
Nation-State
Migration
Export
18. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Subculture
Natural Resources
Absorbing Barrier
19. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Geography
Bilingualism
Ethnolect
Export
20. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Isogloss
Symbolic Landscape
Sex Ratio
21. Government ruled by the people
Colonialism
Lingua Franca
Absorbing Barrier
Democracy
22. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Renewable Resources
Refugee
Population Density
Nonrenewable Resources
23. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Democracy
Place
Permeable Barrier
free trade
24. Population geography
Non-Material Culture
Export
Refugee
Geo-demography
25. The young and the old in a society who need care
Environmental Racism
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
Dependent People
26. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Culture
Ghetto
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Pyramid
27. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Birthrate
Environmental Racism
Expansion Diffusion
Migration
28. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Dependent People
Mobility
slang
Dialect
29. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Democracy
Push factors
Literary Tradition
Dialect
30. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Emigrate
Absorbing Barrier
Involuntary Migration
Developing Countries
31. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
Creole
Famine
32. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Ethnic Cleansing
Monarchy
Developing Countries
Globalization
33. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Birth Rate
Language Family
Culture
34. Original inhabitants of an area
Eco-feminism
Developed Country
Indigenous Culture
Migration
35. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Flag
36. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Folk Architecture
Tariffs
Birthrate
Chain Migration
37. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Polyglot
Birthrate
Acculturation
Geography
38. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Civilization
Non-Material Culture
Colonialism
Death Rate
39. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Geo-demography
Dependent People
Population Pyramid
Race
40. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Mobility
41. A government ruled by a king or queen
Dictatorship
Newly Industrialized Countries
Monarchy
Contagious Diffusion
42. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Subculture
Tariffs
Migration
Newly Industrialized Countries
43. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Ethnic Group
Agroforestry
Push factors
Famine
44. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Human Geography
Popular Culture
Refugee
45. Highly developed cultures
Race
Contagious Diffusion
Civilization
Ethnic Cleansing
46. Massacre of a particular group
Eco-feminism
Human Geography
Export
Genocide
47. Goods brought into a country
Import
Emigrate
Non-Material Culture
Economic System
48. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Linguistic Refuge Area
Newly Industrialized Countries
Environmental Determinism
Culture
49. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Region
Non-Material Culture
Birthrate
50. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Polyglot
Popular Culture
Creole
Economic System