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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. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Birth Rate
Permeable Barrier
Colonialism
2. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Flag
Material Culture
3. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Ethnoburb
Civilization
Colonialism
4. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Possibilism
Ghetto
Total Fertility Rate
Population Density
5. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Natural Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Possibilism
6. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Environmental Racism
Death Rate
Export
Developing Countries
7. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Group
Permeable Barrier
Barrio
8. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Place
Lingua Franca
Chain Migration
Barrio
9. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Region
Literary Tradition
Human Geography
Mobility
10. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Subsistence Economy
Refugee
Language Branch
11. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Quota
Creole
Language
Famine
12. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Death Rate
Population Pyramid
Dependent People
Refugee
13. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Absorbing Barrier
Total Fertility Rate
Geo-demography
14. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Birth Rate
Region
Migration
Dependent People
15. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
free trade
Polyglot
Stimulus Diffusion
Language Branch
16. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Dependent People
Lingua Franca
Push factors
Subsistence Economy
17. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Dictatorship
Death Rate
Quota
18. Population geography
Isogloss
Birth Rate
Geo-demography
Tariffs
19. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Push factors
Language Family
Geo-demography
20. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Flag
Globalization
Monarchy
21. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Geography
Subsistence Economy
Pull Factors
22. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Relocation Diffusion
Pull Factors
Language Branch
Dictatorship
23. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Relocation Diffusion
Language Branch
Folk Culture
Isogloss
24. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Geo-demography
Permeable Barrier
free trade
Migration
25. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Population Density
Birth Rate
Globalization
Ethnoburb
26. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Environmental Racism
Polyglot
Thomas Malthus
Material Culture
27. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Bilingualism
Expansion Diffusion
free trade
Tariffs
28. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Environmental Racism
Creole
Cultural Region
Material Culture
29. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Migration
Refugee
Death Rate
Absorbing Barrier
30. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Population Density
Literary Tradition
Cultural Diffusion
31. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Environmental Racism
Linguistic Refuge Area
Ethnic Group
32. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnic Neighborhood
Economic System
Popular Culture
Folk Culture
33. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Language Family
Literary Tradition
Expansion Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
34. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Bilingualism
Pull Factors
Culture
35. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Culture
Toponym
Lingua Franca
Creole
36. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Agroforestry
Symbolic Landscape
Geography
Birthrate
37. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Ethnic Group
Genocide
38. 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
Ethnic Group
Acculturation
Dictatorship
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
39. To send goods to another country for sale
Human Geography
Assimilation
Export
Newly Industrialized Countries
40. 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
Eco-feminism
Mobility
Possibilism
Colonialism
41. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Environmental Racism
Popular Culture
Dialect
Population Density
42. Resources that can be renewed
Agroforestry
Renewable Resources
Permeable Barrier
Eco-feminism
43. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Return Migration
Dialect
Ethnic Neighborhood
Export
44. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
slang
Globalization
Return Migration
Subsistence Economy
45. Massacre of a particular group
Linguistic Refuge Area
Genocide
Cultural Region
Ethnic Neighborhood
46. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
Acculturation
Push factors
47. Structures built in a traditional manner
Environmental Perception
Assimilation
Folk Architecture
Involuntary Migration
48. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
Birth Rate
slang
49. 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
Cultural Diffusion
Dialect
Language
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
50. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Environmental Perception
Globalization
Population Pyramid