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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. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Environmental Perception
slang
Chain Migration
Dialect
2. 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
Language Branch
Pidgin
Dictatorship
Developing Countries
3. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Pidgin
Language
Dialect
Ethnoburb
4. A limitation on imports
Language Branch
Folk Culture
Quota
Ghetto
5. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Expansion Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
Literary Tradition
6. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Globalization
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Cleansing
7. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Literary Tradition
Population Pyramid
Geo-demography
Quota
8. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Import
Genocide
Agroforestry
9. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Push factors
Tariffs
Famine
Developing Countries
10. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Indigenous Culture
Language Branch
11. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Quota
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
Creole
12. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Cleansing
13. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Population Pyramid
Quota
Cultural Diffusion
Environmental Perception
14. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Natural Resources
Dictatorship
Expansion Diffusion
15. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Geo-demography
Birthrate
Ghetto
Assimilation
16. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Polyglot
Refugee
Monarchy
Acculturation
17. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Renewable Resources
Return Migration
Literary Tradition
Pidgin
18. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Expansion Diffusion
Thomas Malthus
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
19. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Culture
Return Migration
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
20. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Colonialism
Globalization
Quota
Folk Culture
21. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Bilingualism
Toponym
Population Density
Globalization
22. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Migration
Ethnic Neighborhood
Lingua Franca
Export
23. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Place
Toponym
Eco-feminism
24. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural diffusion
Assimilation
25. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Isogloss
Chain Migration
Cultural Simplification
slang
26. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Thomas Malthus
Colonialism
Geography
Human Geography
27. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Dependent People
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
Barrio
28. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Migration
Nation-State
Geography
Pull Factors
29. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Absorbing Barrier
slang
Language Family
30. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Culture
Globalization
Eco-feminism
Barrio
31. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Monarchy
Human Geography
Non-Material Culture
Pull Factors
32. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Involuntary Migration
Environmental Racism
Ethnic Flag
33. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
Cultural Region
Symbolic Landscape
34. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Agroforestry
Civilization
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
35. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Pull Factors
Relocation Diffusion
Language
Polyglot
36. Taxes on imports or exports
Popular Culture
Tariffs
Dictatorship
Place
37. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Language Family
Sex Ratio
Indigenous Culture
Material Culture
38. To send goods to another country for sale
Tariffs
Democracy
Pidgin
Export
39. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Isogloss
Environmental Perception
Linguistic Refuge Area
40. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Dependent People
Toponym
Dialect
Mobility
41. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Ethnic Group
Developed Country
Developing Countries
Push factors
42. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Newly Industrialized Countries
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
Permeable Barrier
43. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Newly Industrialized Countries
Globalization
Non-Material Culture
Folk Culture
44. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Indigenous Culture
Natural Resources
Place
Toponym
45. The numerical ratio of males to females
Barrio
Environmental Racism
Assimilation
Sex Ratio
46. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Ethnic Flag
free trade
Emigrate
47. 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
Contagious Diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Polyglot
Creole
48. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Mobility
Newly Industrialized Countries
Urbanization
Colonialism
49. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Cultural diffusion
Subsistence Economy
Pull Factors
Sex Ratio
50. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Popular Culture
Ethnoburb
Absorbing Barrier
Developed Country