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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Tariffs
Permeable Barrier
Cultural Simplification
Economic System
2. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Import
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
Subsistence Economy
3. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Ethnoburb
Symbolic Landscape
Famine
4. Original inhabitants of an area
Absorbing Barrier
Developed Country
slang
Indigenous Culture
5. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Popular Culture
Geography
Assimilation
6. The growth of cities
Population Pyramid
Urbanization
Agroforestry
Environmental Determinism
7. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Indigenous Culture
Assimilation
Ghetto
Cultural diffusion
8. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Cultural Region
Thomas Malthus
Push factors
9. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Population Density
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language Family
Sex Ratio
10. Taxes on imports or exports
Chain Migration
Assimilation
Renewable Resources
Tariffs
11. Goods brought into a country
Population Density
Nation-State
Symbolic Landscape
Import
12. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Indigenous Culture
Culture
Language Family
Ethnolect
13. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Cleansing
Export
Ethnolect
Return Migration
14. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
Eco-feminism
Pull Factors
15. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Nation-State
Geography
Monarchy
Barrio
16. A limitation on imports
Developing Countries
Death Rate
Human Geography
Quota
17. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Relocation Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Import
Democracy
18. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Colonialism
Relocation Diffusion
Region
Ethnoburb
19. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
Pidgin
Ethnolect
20. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Migration
Possibilism
Mobility
Isogloss
21. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Linguistic Refuge Area
Language Branch
Death Rate
Bilingualism
22. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnoburb
Ethnic Neighborhood
23. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Cultural Diffusion
Assimilation
Absorbing Barrier
Population Pyramid
24. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
Nonrenewable Resources
Language Branch
25. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Colonialism
Possibilism
Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
26. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Toponym
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Subculture
27. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Subsistence Economy
Economic System
slang
Democracy
28. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Subsistence Economy
Death Rate
Birthrate
Cultural Region
29. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Subsistence Economy
Nonrenewable Resources
Newly Industrialized Countries
30. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Acculturation
Environmental Perception
Agroforestry
Ethnic Neighborhood
31. Government ruled by the people
Chain Migration
Democracy
Refugee
Cultural Simplification
32. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Refugee
Nation-State
Acculturation
33. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Ghetto
Democracy
Barrio
Dialect
34. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Race
Language
Human Geography
Creole
35. A government in which the people have no rights; one person or a small group of people rule the country by force and make all the laws
Dictatorship
Economic System
Sex Ratio
Non-Material Culture
36. Border of word usage or pronunciation
free trade
Isogloss
Literary Tradition
Material Culture
37. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Place
Globalization
Population Pyramid
Colonialism
38. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Tariffs
Cultural diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Stimulus Diffusion
39. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Ethnic Group
Total Fertility Rate
Human Geography
Ethnic Flag
40. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Race
Cultural Region
Literary Tradition
Dialect
41. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Birthrate
Environmental Perception
Assimilation
42. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Pidgin
Democracy
Involuntary Migration
Renewable Resources
43. The numerical ratio of males to females
Migration
Contagious Diffusion
Popular Culture
Sex Ratio
44. The young and the old in a society who need care
Symbolic Landscape
Democracy
Relocation Diffusion
Dependent People
45. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Folk Culture
Emigrate
Refugee
Colonialism
46. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Pidgin
Import
Globalization
47. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
free trade
Bilingualism
Contagious Diffusion
Colonialism
48. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Pull Factors
Democracy
Culture
Expansion Diffusion
49. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Birthrate
Nation-State
Migration
Popular Culture
50. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Subsistence Economy
Push factors
Culture