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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Symbolic Landscape
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Eco-feminism
2. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Eco-feminism
Environmental Determinism
Push factors
Sex Ratio
3. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
free trade
Ethnic Neighborhood
Newly Industrialized Countries
4. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Region
Tariffs
Literary Tradition
Famine
5. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
6. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Developed Country
Agroforestry
Creole
Subsistence Economy
7. To send goods to another country for sale
Barrio
Death Rate
Export
Language Family
8. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Ethnic Group
Non-Material Culture
Economic System
Death Rate
9. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Monarchy
Dialect
Subculture
Language
10. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Refugee
Culture
Environmental Determinism
11. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Assimilation
Famine
Nonrenewable Resources
Globalization
12. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Birthrate
Developed Country
Dictatorship
Subsistence Economy
13. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Developed Country
Barrio
Language Branch
14. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Region
Human Geography
Environmental Perception
Absorbing Barrier
15. A government ruled by a king or queen
Linguistic Refuge Area
Symbolic Landscape
Race
Monarchy
16. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Language Family
Toponym
Famine
17. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Density
Natural Resources
Chain Migration
18. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Cultural diffusion
Developed Country
Geo-demography
Death Rate
19. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Ethnic Cleansing
free trade
Expansion Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
20. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Refugee
Renewable Resources
Globalization
Bilingualism
21. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Cultural Region
Migration
Subculture
Material Culture
22. 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
Folk Architecture
Dictatorship
Developing Countries
Subsistence Economy
23. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Non-Material Culture
Isogloss
Culture
Language Branch
24. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Famine
Dependent People
Lingua Franca
Migration
25. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Monarchy
Symbolic Landscape
Chain Migration
Globalization
26. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Non-Material Culture
Popular Culture
Birthrate
Agroforestry
27. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Dictatorship
Ethnic Cleansing
Linguistic Refuge Area
Toponym
28. Massacre of a particular group
Famine
Sex Ratio
Ethnic Group
Genocide
29. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
Race
Chain Migration
30. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ethnic Cleansing
Birth Rate
Material Culture
Environmental Perception
31. One who can speak many languages
Polyglot
Culture
Region
Population Pyramid
32. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Cultural Diffusion
Human Geography
Barrio
Push factors
33. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Acculturation
Globalization
Cultural Simplification
Dependent People
34. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Isogloss
Refugee
Population Density
Eco-feminism
35. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Indigenous Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Dialect
free trade
36. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Colonialism
Total Fertility Rate
Cultural Region
Population Density
37. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Linguistic Refuge Area
Sex Ratio
Natural Resources
Region
38. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Ghetto
Folk Architecture
Human Geography
Developing Countries
39. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Globalization
free trade
Cultural Diffusion
40. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Region
Birthrate
Push factors
Democracy
41. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Barrio
slang
Ethnic Flag
Ethnoburb
42. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Symbolic Landscape
Race
Contagious Diffusion
Assimilation
43. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Contagious Diffusion
Subculture
Language Branch
44. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Absorbing Barrier
Symbolic Landscape
Dependent People
45. 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)
Subsistence Economy
Creole
Indigenous Culture
46. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Eco-feminism
Population Density
Material Culture
Ethnolect
47. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Material Culture
Cultural Diffusion
Population Pyramid
Thomas Malthus
48. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Newly Industrialized Countries
Birth Rate
Globalization
Permeable Barrier
49. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Export
Mobility
Return Migration
Birth Rate
50. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
Agroforestry
Export