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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Nonrenewable Resources
Quota
Isogloss
2. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Return Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
Nonrenewable Resources
Pull Factors
3. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Migration
Nonrenewable Resources
Death Rate
4. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Developing Countries
Subsistence Economy
Creole
5. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Subsistence Economy
Eco-feminism
Emigrate
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Return Migration
Geo-demography
Ethnic Flag
Race
7. Population geography
Ethnolect
Barrio
Absorbing Barrier
Geo-demography
8. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Death Rate
Material Culture
Folk Culture
Urbanization
9. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Linguistic Refuge Area
Newly Industrialized Countries
Indigenous Culture
Famine
10. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Permeable Barrier
Language
Indigenous Culture
Emigrate
11. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Monarchy
Assimilation
slang
Popular Culture
12. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Human Geography
Globalization
Stimulus Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
13. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Ethnolect
Geography
14. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Eco-feminism
Acculturation
Stimulus Diffusion
Nation-State
15. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Renewable Resources
Environmental Racism
Quota
Isogloss
16. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Death Rate
Barrio
Symbolic Landscape
Dependent People
17. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Eco-feminism
Ethnolect
Cultural diffusion
Creole
18. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Refugee
Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Nation-State
19. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Death Rate
Birthrate
free trade
Population Pyramid
20. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Pyramid
Death Rate
Folk Culture
21. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Cultural Diffusion
Return Migration
Famine
Globalization
22. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Linguistic Refuge Area
Environmental Racism
Birth Rate
Cultural Simplification
23. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Refugee
Famine
Place
Developing Countries
24. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Population Density
free trade
Famine
Cultural Simplification
25. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Race
Non-Material Culture
Dialect
26. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Barrio
Bilingualism
Lingua Franca
Ethnic Cleansing
27. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Acculturation
Nation-State
Dictatorship
28. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Polyglot
Absorbing Barrier
Birth Rate
Contagious Diffusion
29. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Lingua Franca
Natural Resources
Population Density
30. The young and the old in a society who need care
Contagious Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Dependent People
Geography
31. Massacre of a particular group
Ethnolect
Ethnic Group
Genocide
Natural Resources
32. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
free trade
Assimilation
Isogloss
Absorbing Barrier
33. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Emigrate
Cultural Diffusion
Assimilation
Dictatorship
34. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Push factors
Permeable Barrier
Renewable Resources
Cultural Region
35. Goods brought into a country
Geo-demography
Race
Acculturation
Import
36. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Relocation Diffusion
Pull Factors
Ethnolect
Globalization
37. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Nation-State
Ethnic Cleansing
Thomas Malthus
Mobility
38. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Permeable Barrier
Environmental Racism
Colonialism
Developed Country
39. A limitation on imports
Quota
Language Branch
Nation-State
Colonialism
40. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Bilingualism
slang
Assimilation
Cultural Diffusion
41. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Refugee
Cultural diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Family
42. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Globalization
Language Family
Non-Material Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
43. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Export
Quota
Pidgin
Agroforestry
44. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Dialect
Dictatorship
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Group
45. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Isogloss
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Neighborhood
Language Branch
46. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Nation-State
Language Branch
Geo-demography
Quota
47. A language with a writing system
Material Culture
Ethnic Flag
Literary Tradition
Natural Resources
48. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Culture
Subsistence Economy
Folk Culture
Population Density
49. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Culture
Mobility
Economic System
Globalization
50. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Democracy
Environmental Determinism
Quota
Ghetto