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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural Region
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Cleansing
Monarchy
2. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Human Geography
Refugee
Material Culture
Language Family
3. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Birthrate
Economic System
Pull Factors
Acculturation
4. Government ruled by the people
Mobility
Monarchy
Democracy
Place
5. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Ethnic Group
Culture
Refugee
Newly Industrialized Countries
6. Structures built in a traditional manner
Renewable Resources
Cultural Diffusion
Urbanization
Folk Architecture
7. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Tariffs
Developed Country
slang
Ethnolect
8. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Ethnic Group
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
Globalization
9. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Dependent People
Language Family
Import
Geo-demography
10. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Region
Stimulus Diffusion
Involuntary Migration
Pidgin
11. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Dependent People
Toponym
Refugee
Region
12. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Dictatorship
Nonrenewable Resources
slang
13. Goods brought into a country
Import
Economic System
Push factors
Genocide
14. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Acculturation
Eco-feminism
Natural Resources
Death Rate
15. Population geography
Mobility
Geo-demography
Involuntary Migration
Symbolic Landscape
16. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Linguistic Refuge Area
Literary Tradition
Refugee
17. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Nation-State
Export
Cultural diffusion
18. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Popular Culture
Famine
19. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Folk Architecture
Push factors
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
20. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Contagious Diffusion
Colonialism
Assimilation
Ghetto
21. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Urbanization
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnoburb
Birth Rate
22. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Simplification
Return Migration
Region
23. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
Toponym
Human Geography
24. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ethnic Group
Chain Migration
Push factors
Material Culture
25. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Eco-feminism
Ethnoburb
Nation-State
Non-Material Culture
26. A government ruled by a king or queen
Agroforestry
Monarchy
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Total Fertility Rate
27. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Genocide
Dialect
Refugee
Environmental Racism
28. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Genocide
Newly Industrialized Countries
29. 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
Polyglot
Dictatorship
Barrio
Dialect
30. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Human Geography
Possibilism
Popular Culture
31. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnoburb
Cultural diffusion
32. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Quota
Barrio
Population Density
Assimilation
33. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Nonrenewable Resources
Refugee
Region
Dialect
34. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Ethnic Group
Dialect
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Geo-demography
Famine
Subsistence Economy
Population Pyramid
36. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Pidgin
Contagious Diffusion
Refugee
37. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Stimulus Diffusion
Monarchy
Tariffs
Barrio
38. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Sex Ratio
Push factors
Ethnic Neighborhood
Civilization
39. A limitation on imports
Quota
Total Fertility Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Geo-demography
40. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Possibilism
slang
Indigenous Culture
41. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Refugee
Push factors
Race
free trade
42. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Toponym
Absorbing Barrier
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
43. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Refugee
Return Migration
Relocation Diffusion
Popular Culture
44. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Place
Emigrate
Birth Rate
Relocation Diffusion
45. Resources that can be renewed
Famine
Renewable Resources
Push factors
Total Fertility Rate
46. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Environmental Racism
Acculturation
Chain Migration
slang
47. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Birth Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Determinism
Barrio
48. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Economic System
Region
Cultural diffusion
Lingua Franca
49. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Race
Ethnic Group
Region
Globalization
50. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Export
Non-Material Culture
Ethnoburb