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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Family
Refugee
2. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Democracy
Eco-feminism
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
3. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Isogloss
Ethnic Flag
Population Pyramid
Refugee
4. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Symbolic Landscape
Ghetto
Expansion Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
5. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Colonialism
Race
Geo-demography
Language
6. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ghetto
Acculturation
Total Fertility Rate
7. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Agroforestry
Developing Countries
Contagious Diffusion
Democracy
8. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Creole
Human Geography
Absorbing Barrier
Developing Countries
9. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Migration
Place
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
10. Population geography
Geo-demography
Quota
Globalization
Dictatorship
11. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Economic System
Ethnic Group
Urbanization
12. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Ethnoburb
Popular Culture
Refugee
Acculturation
13. The young and the old in a society who need care
Ethnic Neighborhood
Literary Tradition
Dependent People
Chain Migration
14. Government ruled by the people
Cultural diffusion
Death Rate
Barrio
Democracy
15. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Language Branch
Environmental Perception
Dictatorship
Folk Architecture
16. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Human Geography
Sex Ratio
Material Culture
Region
17. Goods brought into a country
Developing Countries
Material Culture
Bilingualism
Import
18. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Human Geography
Refugee
Cultural Simplification
Absorbing Barrier
19. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Dependent People
Ghetto
Emigrate
20. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Subsistence Economy
Isogloss
free trade
Culture
21. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Literary Tradition
Ethnic Group
Toponym
Involuntary Migration
22. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Developed Country
Absorbing Barrier
Contagious Diffusion
Nation-State
23. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Folk Architecture
Non-Material Culture
free trade
24. The raising of plants or animals
Folk Culture
free trade
Globalization
Culture
25. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Place
Toponym
Urbanization
26. Taxes on imports or exports
Migration
Tariffs
Polyglot
Isogloss
27. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Popular Culture
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ghetto
28. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Folk Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Bilingualism
Nonrenewable Resources
29. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Sex Ratio
Quota
Thomas Malthus
free trade
30. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Culture
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
31. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Acculturation
Contagious Diffusion
32. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Pull Factors
Bilingualism
Ethnolect
33. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Refugee
Linguistic Refuge Area
Relocation Diffusion
Bilingualism
34. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Region
Agroforestry
Language Family
Environmental Perception
35. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Literary Tradition
Expansion Diffusion
Developed Country
Death Rate
36. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Race
Assimilation
Chain Migration
Economic System
37. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Mobility
Language
Acculturation
Subculture
38. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Ethnic Neighborhood
Literary Tradition
Race
39. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Eco-feminism
Famine
Import
Relocation Diffusion
40. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Ethnic Group
Dialect
Culture
Geography
41. Massacre of a particular group
Dictatorship
free trade
Genocide
Democracy
42. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Environmental Perception
Total Fertility Rate
Death Rate
Return Migration
43. A language with a writing system
Civilization
Total Fertility Rate
Acculturation
Literary Tradition
44. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Ethnic Flag
Globalization
Return Migration
45. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Geo-demography
Pull Factors
Developed Country
Relocation Diffusion
46. Highly developed cultures
Dialect
free trade
Civilization
Geo-demography
47. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Possibilism
Sex Ratio
Subculture
Ethnic Group
48. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Ethnolect
Language
Ethnic Cleansing
Genocide
49. The growth of cities
Isogloss
Urbanization
Export
Geography
50. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Genocide
Isogloss
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