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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Genocide
Human Geography
Creole
Place
2. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Geography
Refugee
Language Branch
3. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Population Density
Monarchy
Ethnolect
4. Original inhabitants of an area
Developing Countries
Indigenous Culture
Population Pyramid
Contagious Diffusion
5. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Popular Culture
Material Culture
Return Migration
Death Rate
6. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Assimilation
Nation-State
Geo-demography
Place
7. Place-name
Toponym
Refugee
Chain Migration
Possibilism
8. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Globalization
Culture
Environmental Racism
Race
9. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Absorbing Barrier
Pidgin
Import
Contagious Diffusion
10. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Popular Culture
Environmental Perception
Migration
Relocation Diffusion
11. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Folk Architecture
Refugee
Language Branch
Lingua Franca
12. 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
Dictatorship
Birth Rate
Ethnoburb
Dialect
13. The raising of plants or animals
Mobility
Agroforestry
Culture
Refugee
14. Structures built in a traditional manner
Mobility
Migration
Permeable Barrier
Folk Architecture
15. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Cultural Diffusion
Race
Economic System
Creole
16. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Nonrenewable Resources
Birth Rate
Refugee
17. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Toponym
Natural Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
Import
18. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Creole
Assimilation
Permeable Barrier
Dictatorship
19. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Monarchy
Quota
Mobility
Population Density
20. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Natural Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
Pull Factors
Barrio
21. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Folk Culture
Subculture
Renewable Resources
Geo-demography
22. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Involuntary Migration
Natural Resources
Ethnolect
23. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Death Rate
Language Branch
Permeable Barrier
Symbolic Landscape
24. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Globalization
Cultural diffusion
Popular Culture
25. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Region
Ethnoburb
Civilization
Subculture
26. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Dependent People
27. Goods brought into a country
Language Family
free trade
Import
Eco-feminism
28. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Toponym
Quota
Genocide
29. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Popular Culture
Ethnoburb
Newly Industrialized Countries
Civilization
30. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Natural Resources
Mobility
Ethnic Neighborhood
Culture
31. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Import
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnolect
32. One who can speak many languages
Non-Material Culture
Polyglot
Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
33. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ghetto
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Region
34. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Culture
Environmental Determinism
Folk Architecture
Natural Resources
35. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Mobility
Bilingualism
Emigrate
Region
36. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Genocide
Dialect
Migration
free trade
37. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Creole
Refugee
Nonrenewable Resources
Thomas Malthus
38. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Developed Country
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Flag
39. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Group
40. Resources that can be renewed
Import
Renewable Resources
Literary Tradition
Ethnoburb
41. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnolect
Place
Ethnic Neighborhood
Natural Resources
42. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Cultural Region
Developing Countries
Birthrate
Ethnolect
43. Massacre of a particular group
Acculturation
Economic System
Genocide
Absorbing Barrier
44. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Economic System
Sex Ratio
Eco-feminism
Polyglot
45. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Possibilism
Genocide
Globalization
46. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Popular Culture
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
Developing Countries
47. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Refugee
Colonialism
Ethnic Cleansing
Birth Rate
48. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Renewable Resources
Tariffs
Expansion Diffusion
Mobility
49. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Migration
Subculture
Colonialism
Death Rate
50. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
Barrio