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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Renewable Resources
Developed Country
Globalization
Ethnolect
2. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Cultural diffusion
Ghetto
Region
Urbanization
3. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Migration
Ethnic Group
slang
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
4. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Polyglot
Agroforestry
Isogloss
Ethnic Group
5. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Emigrate
Globalization
Population Pyramid
Permeable Barrier
6. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Emigrate
Folk Culture
Famine
Race
7. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Chain Migration
Dialect
Death Rate
Geography
8. Original inhabitants of an area
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
Environmental Racism
Total Fertility Rate
9. Goods brought into a country
Environmental Racism
Push factors
Import
Isogloss
10. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Return Migration
Ethnic Group
Famine
Nation-State
11. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Dictatorship
Quota
Birthrate
12. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Sex Ratio
Permeable Barrier
Globalization
13. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Famine
Region
Culture
Dependent People
14. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Race
Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
15. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Language Branch
Migration
16. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Migration
Monarchy
Permeable Barrier
17. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Quota
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Flag
Cultural Region
18. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Subsistence Economy
Civilization
Birthrate
Permeable Barrier
19. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Linguistic Refuge Area
Acculturation
Population Density
Absorbing Barrier
20. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Place
Thomas Malthus
Stimulus Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
21. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Mobility
Pidgin
Emigrate
Tariffs
22. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Renewable Resources
Language
Popular Culture
Culture
23. The young and the old in a society who need care
Subculture
Dependent People
Popular Culture
Emigrate
24. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Death Rate
Region
Newly Industrialized Countries
25. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Dictatorship
Non-Material Culture
Subculture
26. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Assimilation
Urbanization
Mobility
Cultural diffusion
27. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Dialect
Chain Migration
Folk Architecture
Environmental Racism
28. 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
Cultural Simplification
Population Density
Dependent People
Possibilism
29. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Creole
Ethnic Flag
Cultural diffusion
Indigenous Culture
30. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Colonialism
Developing Countries
Eco-feminism
Import
31. Place-name
Cultural Diffusion
Region
Birthrate
Toponym
32. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Emigrate
Cultural Diffusion
Population Pyramid
Death Rate
33. A government ruled by a king or queen
Sex Ratio
Human Geography
Monarchy
Involuntary Migration
34. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Eco-feminism
Return Migration
Civilization
Human Geography
35. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Toponym
Developing Countries
Return Migration
36. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Population Pyramid
free trade
Ethnoburb
Pidgin
37. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Economic System
Cultural Region
Indigenous Culture
Famine
38. A language with a writing system
Subsistence Economy
Language
Ethnic Group
Literary Tradition
39. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Globalization
Dependent People
Environmental Perception
40. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Cultural Simplification
Dialect
Region
Cultural diffusion
41. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Monarchy
Culture
Environmental Perception
Ethnic Cleansing
42. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Folk Culture
Culture
Population Density
Region
43. The numerical ratio of males to females
Democracy
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Neighborhood
44. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Dialect
Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Stimulus Diffusion
45. A limitation on imports
Literary Tradition
Toponym
Language Family
Quota
46. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Folk Culture
Economic System
Culture
Involuntary Migration
47. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Refugee
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
48. 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
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Civilization
Possibilism
Assimilation
49. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Ethnic Neighborhood
Material Culture
Agroforestry
50. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural Simplification
Geo-demography
Cultural diffusion
Toponym
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