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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Environmental Racism
Expansion Diffusion
Place
2. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Environmental Perception
Import
Developing Countries
3. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Isogloss
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Group
4. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Economic System
Population Density
Non-Material Culture
Pull Factors
5. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Globalization
Dialect
Eco-feminism
Thomas Malthus
6. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Refugee
Developed Country
Push factors
7. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Population Pyramid
Human Geography
Language
Death Rate
8. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Folk Architecture
Pidgin
Push factors
Total Fertility Rate
9. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Subsistence Economy
Ghetto
Subculture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
10. Original inhabitants of an area
Folk Architecture
Indigenous Culture
Race
Famine
11. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Folk Culture
Creole
Assimilation
Ethnic Cleansing
12. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Folk Architecture
Language
Subsistence Economy
Expansion Diffusion
13. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Cleansing
Race
14. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Language Branch
Environmental Racism
Barrio
Place
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Agroforestry
Population Density
Famine
Barrio
16. Structures built in a traditional manner
Symbolic Landscape
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Cleansing
Urbanization
17. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Genocide
Ethnic Flag
Environmental Perception
Dialect
18. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Geo-demography
Sex Ratio
Assimilation
19. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Polyglot
Isogloss
Possibilism
Refugee
20. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Urbanization
Thomas Malthus
Subsistence Economy
21. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Genocide
Emigrate
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Perception
22. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Mobility
Eco-feminism
Folk Culture
Refugee
23. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Globalization
Environmental Perception
Pidgin
Symbolic Landscape
24. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Culture
Ethnic Group
Monarchy
Polyglot
25. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Race
Lingua Franca
Chain Migration
Economic System
26. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Famine
Culture
Folk Culture
Geography
27. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Folk Architecture
slang
Cultural Simplification
Mobility
28. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Urbanization
Linguistic Refuge Area
Stimulus Diffusion
29. The raising of plants or animals
Cultural Diffusion
Acculturation
Literary Tradition
Culture
30. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Possibilism
free trade
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birth Rate
31. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Race
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Cleansing
Migration
32. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Relocation Diffusion
Globalization
Language Branch
Sex Ratio
33. The numerical ratio of males to females
Developing Countries
Subculture
Sex Ratio
Environmental Determinism
34. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Colonialism
Race
Geo-demography
Place
35. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Region
Monarchy
Language
36. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Barrio
Mobility
Subsistence Economy
37. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
Cultural Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
38. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Region
Linguistic Refuge Area
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Group
39. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Culture
Civilization
Cultural Diffusion
Import
40. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Ethnic Cleansing
Colonialism
Language
Contagious Diffusion
41. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Pull Factors
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Cultural Simplification
42. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Nation-State
Literary Tradition
Acculturation
43. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Contagious Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Cultural Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
44. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Expansion Diffusion
Sex Ratio
Pull Factors
slang
45. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Quota
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Thomas Malthus
46. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Ethnic Neighborhood
Material Culture
Subculture
Language Family
47. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Pull Factors
Environmental Racism
Renewable Resources
48. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Tariffs
Chain Migration
Literary Tradition
Colonialism
49. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Toponym
free trade
Permeable Barrier
Developing Countries
50. 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
Human Geography
Quota
Colonialism
Dictatorship