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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Pidgin
Tariffs
Dialect
Sex Ratio
2. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Urbanization
Thomas Malthus
Subculture
Environmental Determinism
3. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Cleansing
Dialect
Ethnic Group
Quota
4. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Population Pyramid
Environmental Racism
Involuntary Migration
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
5. The raising of plants or animals
Ethnic Group
Culture
Pidgin
Chain Migration
6. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Globalization
Language Branch
Material Culture
Dialect
7. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Family
Refugee
Place
8. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Mobility
Material Culture
Agroforestry
Environmental Racism
9. Place-name
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Toponym
Stimulus Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
10. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Ghetto
Involuntary Migration
Globalization
Push factors
11. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Subsistence Economy
Natural Resources
Refugee
12. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Possibilism
Eco-feminism
Material Culture
free trade
13. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Geo-demography
Non-Material Culture
Population Pyramid
14. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Export
Race
Colonialism
15. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Barrio
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
16. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Human Geography
Return Migration
Emigrate
17. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Popular Culture
Isogloss
Ethnic Neighborhood
18. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Dependent People
Genocide
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Group
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
Possibilism
Region
Quota
Population Pyramid
20. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Import
Environmental Determinism
21. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Monarchy
Geo-demography
Renewable Resources
22. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Cultural Simplification
Subculture
Ethnic Group
23. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Absorbing Barrier
Subculture
Environmental Perception
Cultural Diffusion
24. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Language Family
Region
Ethnoburb
Pidgin
25. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Civilization
Ethnic Neighborhood
26. Population geography
free trade
Geo-demography
Agroforestry
Tariffs
27. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Cultural Diffusion
Language Branch
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
28. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Globalization
Geography
Relocation Diffusion
Cultural Region
29. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Natural Resources
Subsistence Economy
Region
Refugee
30. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
free trade
Newly Industrialized Countries
Return Migration
Race
31. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Refugee
Barrio
Ethnoburb
Dictatorship
32. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Bilingualism
slang
Economic System
Language Branch
33. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Bilingualism
free trade
Mobility
Indigenous Culture
34. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Ethnic Group
Language
Material Culture
Eco-feminism
35. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Return Migration
Population Pyramid
Sex Ratio
Cultural diffusion
36. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Permeable Barrier
Acculturation
Death Rate
Ethnolect
37. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Population Density
Ethnic Group
Population Pyramid
Total Fertility Rate
38. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
slang
Lingua Franca
Stimulus Diffusion
Death Rate
39. The young and the old in a society who need care
Natural Resources
Thomas Malthus
Emigrate
Dependent People
40. To send goods to another country for sale
Isogloss
Race
Export
Newly Industrialized Countries
41. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Dependent People
Non-Material Culture
Monarchy
42. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Chain Migration
Refugee
Subsistence Economy
Newly Industrialized Countries
43. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Democracy
Mobility
Refugee
Emigrate
44. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Cultural Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Permeable Barrier
45. One who can speak many languages
Ethnoburb
Popular Culture
Geography
Polyglot
46. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
Lingua Franca
Race
47. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Famine
Population Pyramid
Chain Migration
48. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Urbanization
Ghetto
Cultural Region
Globalization
49. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Population Pyramid
Material Culture
Pull Factors
Refugee
50. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Import
Ethnic Group
Migration
Cultural diffusion