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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Developed Country
Polyglot
Isogloss
Culture
2. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Developed Country
Ethnic Flag
Birthrate
Pull Factors
3. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Agroforestry
Death Rate
Bilingualism
Dictatorship
4. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
Economic System
Subsistence Economy
5. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Environmental Perception
Language Branch
Emigrate
Environmental Racism
6. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Genocide
Environmental Determinism
Toponym
Natural Resources
7. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Emigrate
Symbolic Landscape
Chain Migration
Ethnic Group
8. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Developing Countries
Assimilation
Barrio
Creole
9. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Bilingualism
Developed Country
Race
Subsistence Economy
10. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Group
Quota
Race
11. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Push factors
Literary Tradition
Linguistic Refuge Area
Region
12. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Subculture
Sex Ratio
Polyglot
Environmental Determinism
13. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Death Rate
Subsistence Economy
Environmental Racism
Barrio
14. Original inhabitants of an area
Colonialism
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Flag
slang
15. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Colonialism
Push factors
Newly Industrialized Countries
Cultural Region
16. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Return Migration
Environmental Perception
Population Density
Cultural Simplification
17. Massacre of a particular group
Democracy
Genocide
Ethnoburb
Bilingualism
18. Goods brought into a country
Import
Ghetto
Return Migration
Export
19. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Colonialism
Chain Migration
Refugee
Cultural diffusion
20. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Return Migration
Subsistence Economy
Bilingualism
Urbanization
21. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Monarchy
Economic System
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
22. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Human Geography
Language Family
Subculture
23. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Genocide
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dependent People
Language Branch
24. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Eco-feminism
Language Branch
Human Geography
Economic System
25. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Eco-feminism
Monarchy
Folk Architecture
26. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Thomas Malthus
free trade
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
27. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
Environmental Perception
Tariffs
28. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Ethnic Cleansing
Environmental Racism
Mobility
29. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Cultural Simplification
Nonrenewable Resources
Symbolic Landscape
Region
30. A language with a writing system
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
Economic System
Literary Tradition
31. Place-name
Toponym
Place
Culture
Monarchy
32. The growth of cities
Death Rate
Urbanization
Region
Language Branch
33. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Agroforestry
slang
Creole
34. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Ethnolect
Geography
Stimulus Diffusion
35. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Dictatorship
Creole
Indigenous Culture
36. The numerical ratio of males to females
Refugee
Sex Ratio
Total Fertility Rate
Race
37. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Human Geography
Race
Language
Indigenous Culture
38. One who can speak many languages
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
Popular Culture
Polyglot
39. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
Race
40. The young and the old in a society who need care
Cultural Simplification
Material Culture
Dependent People
Dictatorship
41. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Dependent People
Folk Culture
Popular Culture
Ethnic Group
42. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Symbolic Landscape
Subculture
Population Density
Expansion Diffusion
43. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Urbanization
Ethnic Flag
Literary Tradition
Colonialism
44. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Mobility
Acculturation
Permeable Barrier
45. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Geo-demography
Creole
Folk Architecture
Culture
46. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Place
Death Rate
Environmental Racism
47. Resources that can be renewed
Natural Resources
Developing Countries
Subculture
Renewable Resources
48. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Birth Rate
Sex Ratio
Creole
Barrio
49. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Civilization
slang
Colonialism
50. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Death Rate
Developing Countries
Agroforestry
Economic System