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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Death Rate
Region
Urbanization
2. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Developing Countries
Developed Country
slang
Geography
3. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Permeable Barrier
Nation-State
Urbanization
Globalization
4. A stabilized population created when an average of only 2 children per couple survive to adulthood so that the number of births equals the number of deaths
Ethnic Flag
Language
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Neighborhood
5. Structures built in a traditional manner
Culture
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
Nation-State
6. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Ethnic Neighborhood
free trade
Absorbing Barrier
Developed Country
7. The growth of cities
Pidgin
Cultural Simplification
Dependent People
Urbanization
8. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Ghetto
Lingua Franca
Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
9. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
Cultural Region
Ethnolect
10. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Genocide
Urbanization
Material Culture
Democracy
11. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Dialect
Ethnic Flag
Expansion Diffusion
Democracy
12. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Permeable Barrier
Sex Ratio
Quota
Subsistence Economy
13. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Creole
Cultural Diffusion
Dictatorship
Stimulus Diffusion
14. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Emigrate
Culture
Language
Material Culture
15. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Literary Tradition
Globalization
Environmental Racism
16. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Pull Factors
Ethnic Flag
Environmental Determinism
Cultural Diffusion
17. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Contagious Diffusion
Geo-demography
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Neighborhood
18. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Geography
Thomas Malthus
Refugee
Cultural Simplification
19. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Environmental Determinism
Culture
Civilization
20. Goods brought into a country
Stimulus Diffusion
Monarchy
Import
Economic System
21. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
free trade
Acculturation
Relocation Diffusion
Isogloss
22. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Absorbing Barrier
Bilingualism
Geography
Economic System
23. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Place
Cultural diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Bilingualism
24. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Folk Architecture
Environmental Racism
Language Branch
Developed Country
25. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Isogloss
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
26. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Emigrate
Cultural Region
Population Pyramid
Popular Culture
27. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Sex Ratio
Culture
Non-Material Culture
Toponym
28. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Urbanization
Region
Creole
29. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Nation-State
Urbanization
Ethnoburb
Subculture
30. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Birth Rate
Dialect
Pidgin
Refugee
31. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Genocide
Nonrenewable Resources
Permeable Barrier
32. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Environmental Perception
Famine
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
33. 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
Environmental Perception
Polyglot
Lingua Franca
34. A government ruled by a king or queen
Quota
Genocide
Relocation Diffusion
Monarchy
35. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Total Fertility Rate
Toponym
Developing Countries
Involuntary Migration
36. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Contagious Diffusion
Culture
Ghetto
Population Pyramid
37. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Acculturation
Assimilation
Chain Migration
slang
38. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Pull Factors
Colonialism
Total Fertility Rate
Ghetto
39. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Population Density
Migration
Globalization
Involuntary Migration
40. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Thomas Malthus
Dialect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Contagious Diffusion
41. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Expansion Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Determinism
42. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Famine
Push factors
Indigenous Culture
Death Rate
43. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural Diffusion
Folk Culture
Absorbing Barrier
44. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Birth Rate
Eco-feminism
Environmental Racism
Cultural Simplification
45. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Language
Dictatorship
Non-Material Culture
Famine
46. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Popular Culture
Famine
Subsistence Economy
Emigrate
47. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Thomas Malthus
Sex Ratio
Cultural Region
48. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Newly Industrialized Countries
Involuntary Migration
slang
49. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Creole
Famine
Symbolic Landscape
Monarchy
50. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
Subsistence Economy
Dialect