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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dialect
Tariffs
Pull Factors
2. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Culture
Bilingualism
Language
Emigrate
3. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Symbolic Landscape
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Group
4. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Thomas Malthus
Dialect
Emigrate
5. The growth of cities
Folk Architecture
Birthrate
Urbanization
Civilization
6. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Possibilism
Migration
Ghetto
Subsistence Economy
7. One who can speak many languages
Eco-feminism
Polyglot
Cultural Diffusion
Subculture
8. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geo-demography
slang
Subculture
Geography
9. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Economic System
Eco-feminism
Expansion Diffusion
Folk Architecture
10. A limitation on imports
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Quota
Thomas Malthus
11. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Barrio
Environmental Racism
Absorbing Barrier
Acculturation
12. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural diffusion
Civilization
Ethnic Group
13. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Refugee
Urbanization
Language Branch
Environmental Perception
14. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Chain Migration
free trade
Urbanization
15. Government ruled by the people
Import
Democracy
Linguistic Refuge Area
slang
16. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Assimilation
Birthrate
Dialect
Tariffs
17. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Cultural Region
Ethnolect
Ethnoburb
Democracy
18. Resources that can be renewed
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Group
Renewable Resources
Cultural Diffusion
19. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Death Rate
Quota
Eco-feminism
20. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Death Rate
Ethnoburb
Birthrate
Involuntary Migration
21. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
slang
Subsistence Economy
Contagious Diffusion
22. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Race
Cultural Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Language Family
23. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Contagious Diffusion
Culture
Subculture
Pull Factors
24. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Dialect
Ethnic Group
Agroforestry
25. The young and the old in a society who need care
Refugee
Dependent People
Region
Ethnic Flag
26. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Language Family
Economic System
Cultural Region
Population Pyramid
27. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Expansion Diffusion
Assimilation
Possibilism
Contagious Diffusion
28. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Export
Push factors
Polyglot
Developed Country
29. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Ethnoburb
Contagious Diffusion
Subculture
Stimulus Diffusion
30. Population geography
Stimulus Diffusion
slang
Tariffs
Geo-demography
31. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Return Migration
32. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Thomas Malthus
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Democracy
33. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Stimulus Diffusion
Migration
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
34. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Absorbing Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Birth Rate
Cultural Region
35. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Mobility
Death Rate
Globalization
Newly Industrialized Countries
36. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Popular Culture
Cultural Region
Pidgin
Dialect
37. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dependent People
Isogloss
38. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Democracy
Material Culture
Ethnoburb
Geography
39. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Possibilism
Total Fertility Rate
Dialect
Ethnic Cleansing
40. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Civilization
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Monarchy
41. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Thomas Malthus
Environmental Racism
Economic System
42. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Creole
Urbanization
Geo-demography
43. Original inhabitants of an area
Refugee
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Economic System
44. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Creole
Ethnic Group
Folk Culture
Culture
45. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Bilingualism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnolect
Ghetto
46. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Culture
Cultural diffusion
Involuntary Migration
Developing Countries
47. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Refugee
Pidgin
Agroforestry
Death Rate
48. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Thomas Malthus
Lingua Franca
Return Migration
Dialect
49. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Push factors
Civilization
Economic System
Death Rate
50. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Thomas Malthus
Ethnolect
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate