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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Ghetto
Language Family
slang
Toponym
2. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Cultural Diffusion
Emigrate
Developing Countries
Folk Architecture
3. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Cultural Simplification
Language
Lingua Franca
4. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Ethnic Cleansing
slang
Push factors
5. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Agroforestry
Dictatorship
Push factors
Expansion Diffusion
6. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Cultural Region
Urbanization
Refugee
7. One who can speak many languages
Isogloss
Dialect
Culture
Polyglot
8. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
Return Migration
9. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Language
Ethnoburb
Assimilation
10. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Birth Rate
Migration
Assimilation
Permeable Barrier
11. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Developing Countries
Symbolic Landscape
Refugee
Dialect
12. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Non-Material Culture
Geography
Monarchy
Isogloss
13. Place-name
Toponym
Push factors
Environmental Determinism
Pidgin
14. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Colonialism
Environmental Racism
Geography
Dialect
15. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Chain Migration
Total Fertility Rate
Expansion Diffusion
Return Migration
16. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Colonialism
Race
Ethnolect
Dialect
17. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural Simplification
Absorbing Barrier
Pidgin
Colonialism
18. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Globalization
Mobility
Nation-State
Chain Migration
19. 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
Mobility
Possibilism
Population Pyramid
Literary Tradition
20. Taxes on imports or exports
Geography
Migration
Tariffs
Relocation Diffusion
21. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Ghetto
free trade
Economic System
22. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Refugee
Dictatorship
Ethnic Neighborhood
23. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Ethnic Flag
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
Developed Country
24. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Dialect
Sex Ratio
Popular Culture
25. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Thomas Malthus
Quota
Popular Culture
Dictatorship
26. 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
Economic System
Ethnolect
Population Pyramid
Dictatorship
27. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Bilingualism
Assimilation
Mobility
28. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Environmental Determinism
Return Migration
Bilingualism
Lingua Franca
29. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ethnic Group
Dialect
Birth Rate
Dictatorship
30. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Ethnolect
Lingua Franca
Barrio
Nonrenewable Resources
31. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Nation-State
Symbolic Landscape
Dialect
Barrio
32. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnoburb
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Group
Race
33. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Thomas Malthus
Developing Countries
Refugee
Ethnic Group
34. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Isogloss
Relocation Diffusion
Migration
Polyglot
35. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Creole
Geo-demography
Geography
36. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Refugee
Ethnic Flag
37. Goods brought into a country
Permeable Barrier
Birthrate
Contagious Diffusion
Import
38. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Simplification
Dictatorship
Eco-feminism
39. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
free trade
Expansion Diffusion
Lingua Franca
40. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Bilingualism
Polyglot
Pidgin
41. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Import
Place
Creole
Bilingualism
42. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Geography
Language Branch
Export
Subsistence Economy
43. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Neighborhood
Toponym
44. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Contagious Diffusion
Urbanization
Language
Death Rate
45. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Chain Migration
Subsistence Economy
Dialect
Folk Architecture
46. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Total Fertility Rate
Material Culture
Subculture
47. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Isogloss
Globalization
Mobility
Language
48. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dictatorship
Tariffs
49. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Natural Resources
Indigenous Culture
Human Geography
Region
50. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Natural Resources
Possibilism
Polyglot