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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Popular Culture
Ethnic Group
Creole
slang
2. Economy where people consume only what they produce
free trade
Polyglot
Subsistence Economy
Indigenous Culture
3. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Cultural Simplification
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Ethnic Group
4. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Culture
Ethnic Flag
Folk Culture
5. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Pull Factors
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Determinism
Push factors
6. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnoburb
Involuntary Migration
Ethnolect
7. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Bilingualism
Literary Tradition
Push factors
Language
8. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Barrio
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
9. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
Import
Symbolic Landscape
10. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Geo-demography
Popular Culture
11. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Isogloss
Culture
Population Density
Ethnic Cleansing
12. Taxes on imports or exports
Population Pyramid
Tariffs
Democracy
Natural Resources
13. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Non-Material Culture
Economic System
Isogloss
Material Culture
14. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Contagious Diffusion
Birthrate
Death Rate
Monarchy
15. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Pull Factors
Acculturation
Stimulus Diffusion
Economic System
16. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnolect
Civilization
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Group
17. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Symbolic Landscape
Barrio
Folk Architecture
Push factors
18. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Urbanization
free trade
Human Geography
Dialect
19. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Dialect
Bilingualism
Literary Tradition
Acculturation
20. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Assimilation
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Neighborhood
21. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Ethnic Group
Tariffs
Sex Ratio
22. The growth of cities
Renewable Resources
Subsistence Economy
Urbanization
Dialect
23. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Famine
Death Rate
Birth Rate
24. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Cultural Region
Death Rate
Race
Developing Countries
25. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Region
Export
Agroforestry
slang
26. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Nonrenewable Resources
Language Branch
Refugee
27. 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
Geo-demography
Globalization
Language Family
Possibilism
28. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Language
29. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Ethnolect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Dialect
Nation-State
30. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Flag
Nonrenewable Resources
Subculture
31. Government ruled by the people
Cultural Region
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
Democracy
32. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Lingua Franca
Linguistic Refuge Area
Dialect
Non-Material Culture
33. Goods brought into a country
Popular Culture
Cultural Simplification
Import
Cultural Region
34. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnolect
Ghetto
35. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Import
Folk Culture
36. Population geography
Tariffs
Nonrenewable Resources
Geo-demography
Language
37. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Bilingualism
Cultural Region
Developing Countries
38. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Linguistic Refuge Area
Culture
slang
Total Fertility Rate
39. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Chain Migration
Dependent People
Place
40. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Ethnic Flag
Genocide
Civilization
Assimilation
41. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Cultural diffusion
Culture
Place
Tariffs
42. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Newly Industrialized Countries
Urbanization
Dialect
Language Branch
43. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Developed Country
Monarchy
Refugee
Folk Culture
44. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Symbolic Landscape
Pull Factors
Place
Human Geography
45. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Language
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Environmental Determinism
46. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
Language
47. The young and the old in a society who need care
Non-Material Culture
Dependent People
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
48. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Cultural Region
Assimilation
Export
Mobility
49. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Contagious Diffusion
50. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Acculturation
Globalization
Natural Resources
Renewable Resources