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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. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Mobility
Refugee
Newly Industrialized Countries
Language Family
2. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Race
Region
Folk Architecture
Renewable Resources
3. Resources that can be renewed
Globalization
Mobility
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Neighborhood
4. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Developed Country
Push factors
Dictatorship
Ethnic Group
5. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Human Geography
Popular Culture
Emigrate
Population Density
6. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Permeable Barrier
Region
Folk Culture
Polyglot
7. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Acculturation
Possibilism
Barrio
Emigrate
8. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Assimilation
Globalization
Absorbing Barrier
Famine
9. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Emigrate
Globalization
Race
Possibilism
10. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural Simplification
Toponym
11. The young and the old in a society who need care
Economic System
slang
Barrio
Dependent People
12. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
free trade
Bilingualism
Eco-feminism
Non-Material Culture
13. One who can speak many languages
Indigenous Culture
Assimilation
Polyglot
Geography
14. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Birthrate
Ethnic Cleansing
Assimilation
15. A language with a writing system
Chain Migration
Famine
Literary Tradition
Environmental Determinism
16. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Pidgin
Culture
Non-Material Culture
Barrio
17. A limitation on imports
Birthrate
Quota
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Group
18. 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
Newly Industrialized Countries
Geography
Language Branch
Possibilism
19. Goods brought into a country
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Import
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Group
20. Highly developed cultures
Death Rate
Tariffs
Civilization
Relocation Diffusion
21. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Eco-feminism
Subsistence Economy
Pidgin
Cultural Simplification
22. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Subsistence Economy
Expansion Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
23. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Dependent People
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
24. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Ethnic Group
Toponym
Natural Resources
Environmental Determinism
25. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnolect
Creole
26. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Creole
Ethnic Neighborhood
Linguistic Refuge Area
27. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Environmental Determinism
Quota
Language
Newly Industrialized Countries
28. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Culture
Toponym
Eco-feminism
Urbanization
29. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Non-Material Culture
Natural Resources
Expansion Diffusion
Economic System
30. 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
Monarchy
Permeable Barrier
Environmental Racism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
31. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Population Pyramid
Lingua Franca
Dependent People
Birthrate
32. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural diffusion
Birth Rate
33. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Civilization
Cultural Diffusion
Death Rate
Human Geography
34. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Language Branch
Material Culture
free trade
Relocation Diffusion
35. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Sex Ratio
Globalization
Cultural Simplification
Folk Culture
36. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Place
Migration
Isogloss
37. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Death Rate
Culture
Place
Colonialism
38. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Group
Globalization
Dialect
39. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Language Family
Nonrenewable Resources
Birth Rate
40. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Cultural Region
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Group
Non-Material Culture
41. Massacre of a particular group
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Civilization
Genocide
Ghetto
42. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Eco-feminism
43. To send goods to another country for sale
Possibilism
Folk Architecture
Mobility
Export
44. Structures built in a traditional manner
Bilingualism
Folk Architecture
Ethnoburb
Refugee
45. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Developing Countries
Developed Country
Nonrenewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
46. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
free trade
Push factors
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnoburb
47. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Refugee
Dialect
Birthrate
Isogloss
48. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Non-Material Culture
Expansion Diffusion
Possibilism
49. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Expansion Diffusion
Urbanization
Return Migration
Ethnic Flag
50. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Isogloss
Language Branch
Ghetto
Literary Tradition