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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Refugee
Place
Bilingualism
Geo-demography
2. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Absorbing Barrier
Thomas Malthus
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
3. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Ethnic Cleansing
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
Lingua Franca
4. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Ethnic Neighborhood
Subsistence Economy
Natural Resources
Ethnolect
5. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Death Rate
Thomas Malthus
Globalization
Non-Material Culture
6. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Mobility
Globalization
Import
7. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Acculturation
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
8. To send goods to another country for sale
Material Culture
Geography
Export
Developed Country
9. A limitation on imports
Renewable Resources
Quota
Return Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
10. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Popular Culture
Assimilation
Literary Tradition
Stimulus Diffusion
11. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Nation-State
Chain Migration
Globalization
Involuntary Migration
12. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
Cultural diffusion
Literary Tradition
13. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Chain Migration
Creole
Subsistence Economy
Permeable Barrier
14. The raising of plants or animals
Language Family
Culture
Geography
Barrio
15. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Pull Factors
Isogloss
Globalization
Contagious Diffusion
16. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Isogloss
Toponym
Tariffs
17. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Tariffs
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Determinism
Dialect
18. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Chain Migration
Dialect
Monarchy
19. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Relocation Diffusion
Population Density
free trade
Death Rate
20. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ghetto
Acculturation
Possibilism
21. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Language
Language Family
Ethnic Group
slang
22. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Death Rate
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
Emigrate
23. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Involuntary Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Language Family
24. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Tariffs
Colonialism
Place
Genocide
25. 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
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural Region
Dictatorship
Ethnic Flag
26. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Symbolic Landscape
Contagious Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
27. Original inhabitants of an area
Toponym
Indigenous Culture
Creole
Sex Ratio
28. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Popular Culture
Globalization
Monarchy
29. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Ghetto
Popular Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
30. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Emigrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Neighborhood
Nation-State
31. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Material Culture
Death Rate
Ethnolect
Nation-State
32. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Isogloss
Contagious Diffusion
Eco-feminism
33. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Cultural Region
Place
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnoburb
34. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Folk Architecture
Popular Culture
35. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Population Density
Nation-State
Thomas Malthus
Refugee
36. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Return Migration
Natural Resources
Ethnic Flag
Economic System
37. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Language Branch
Involuntary Migration
Total Fertility Rate
38. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Developed Country
Cultural diffusion
Monarchy
39. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Literary Tradition
Developed Country
Environmental Perception
40. Government ruled by the people
Acculturation
Literary Tradition
Democracy
Tariffs
41. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Genocide
Lingua Franca
Environmental Determinism
42. 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
Race
Mobility
Export
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
43. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Environmental Determinism
Tariffs
Globalization
Place
44. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Dependent People
Globalization
Nonrenewable Resources
Subculture
45. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Contagious Diffusion
slang
Human Geography
46. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Pull Factors
Developing Countries
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
47. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
Developed Country
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
48. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Cultural Simplification
Isogloss
Environmental Racism
Race
49. One who can speak many languages
Nation-State
Environmental Perception
Culture
Polyglot
50. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Stimulus Diffusion
Barrio