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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Culture
Material Culture
Colonialism
Population Pyramid
2. The growth of cities
Involuntary Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
3. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Tariffs
Agroforestry
slang
4. Population geography
Birth Rate
Population Density
Developing Countries
Geo-demography
5. Place-name
Linguistic Refuge Area
Quota
Toponym
Developed Country
6. The numerical ratio of males to females
Birth Rate
Sex Ratio
Thomas Malthus
Culture
7. The raising of plants or animals
Total Fertility Rate
Culture
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
8. Original inhabitants of an area
Population Density
Pidgin
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
9. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Natural Resources
Dependent People
Newly Industrialized Countries
Polyglot
10. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Thomas Malthus
Economic System
Democracy
11. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Language
Population Density
Race
Cultural Diffusion
12. A language with a writing system
Ethnic Neighborhood
Absorbing Barrier
Natural Resources
Literary Tradition
13. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Newly Industrialized Countries
Import
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Cleansing
14. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Refugee
Language Branch
Total Fertility Rate
Barrio
15. One who can speak many languages
Export
Folk Architecture
Polyglot
Assimilation
16. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Export
Tariffs
Emigrate
Refugee
17. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Import
Non-Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Human Geography
18. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Globalization
free trade
Language Family
Isogloss
19. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Relocation Diffusion
Possibilism
Emigrate
Famine
20. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Thomas Malthus
Toponym
Language
Return Migration
21. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Involuntary Migration
22. 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
Democracy
Possibilism
Dictatorship
Dialect
23. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Literary Tradition
free trade
Assimilation
Lingua Franca
24. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Population Density
Return Migration
Economic System
25. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Birth Rate
Ethnic Cleansing
Toponym
Eco-feminism
26. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Refugee
Human Geography
Race
Bilingualism
27. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Subculture
Assimilation
Refugee
Famine
28. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Ethnic Group
Birth Rate
Population Pyramid
29. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Ethnoburb
Dialect
Ethnolect
30. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Place
Refugee
Globalization
Ethnic Group
31. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Folk Culture
Dependent People
Birth Rate
32. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Globalization
Mobility
Famine
Ethnoburb
33. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Return Migration
Monarchy
Acculturation
34. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Symbolic Landscape
slang
Environmental Perception
Population Pyramid
35. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Monarchy
Symbolic Landscape
Assimilation
Thomas Malthus
36. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Return Migration
Renewable Resources
Geography
Dictatorship
37. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Globalization
Eco-feminism
Isogloss
Return Migration
38. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnic Flag
Literary Tradition
Ethnolect
Environmental Perception
39. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Literary Tradition
Absorbing Barrier
Birthrate
40. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Chain Migration
Emigrate
Cultural Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
41. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
free trade
Civilization
Possibilism
Push factors
42. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Cultural Simplification
Sex Ratio
Economic System
Race
43. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Isogloss
Death Rate
Cultural Diffusion
44. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Developed Country
Environmental Perception
Lingua Franca
Population Pyramid
45. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Geo-demography
free trade
Pidgin
Environmental Determinism
46. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Possibilism
Cultural Simplification
Dialect
Sex Ratio
47. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Death Rate
Agroforestry
Death Rate
48. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Assimilation
Language
Involuntary Migration
free trade
49. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Ghetto
Civilization
Democracy
Birthrate
50. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Creole
Return Migration
Bilingualism
Dictatorship
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