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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Push factors
Language Family
Culture
2. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Colonialism
Developing Countries
Natural Resources
Assimilation
3. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Environmental Perception
Race
Relocation Diffusion
Eco-feminism
4. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnoburb
Geo-demography
Lingua Franca
5. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Language Branch
Race
Cultural diffusion
Ethnic Neighborhood
6. Population geography
Dialect
Ghetto
Bilingualism
Geo-demography
7. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Environmental Determinism
Refugee
Developing Countries
Urbanization
8. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Eco-feminism
9. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Contagious Diffusion
Nation-State
Absorbing Barrier
Expansion Diffusion
10. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Involuntary Migration
Human Geography
Renewable Resources
11. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Dialect
Ethnoburb
Creole
Birthrate
12. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Population Density
Globalization
Colonialism
Birthrate
13. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Quota
Symbolic Landscape
Nation-State
Involuntary Migration
14. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Language Family
Famine
Colonialism
Nonrenewable Resources
15. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Cultural Region
Push factors
Place
16. 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)
Birthrate
Linguistic Refuge Area
Involuntary Migration
17. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Pyramid
Population Density
Monarchy
Ethnic Neighborhood
18. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Dialect
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnolect
19. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Export
Language Family
Natural Resources
Eco-feminism
20. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnoburb
Expansion Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Ethnic Neighborhood
21. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Cultural Simplification
Polyglot
Return Migration
Subsistence Economy
22. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Environmental Perception
Return Migration
23. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Sex Ratio
Push factors
Dependent People
Region
24. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Ethnoburb
Involuntary Migration
Place
Environmental Racism
25. A language with a writing system
Import
Ethnic Cleansing
Literary Tradition
Quota
26. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Population Pyramid
Birthrate
Developed Country
Ethnic Flag
27. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Cultural Simplification
Non-Material Culture
Genocide
Refugee
28. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Birthrate
Environmental Determinism
Birth Rate
29. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Stimulus Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
Acculturation
Ghetto
30. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Pull Factors
Involuntary Migration
Economic System
31. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Toponym
Folk Architecture
Pidgin
32. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Quota
Cultural Region
33. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Isogloss
Creole
Dialect
Export
34. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Geography
Subculture
Ethnic Flag
Birth Rate
35. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Human Geography
Pull Factors
Language
Cultural Region
36. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Developing Countries
Ethnic Flag
Return Migration
Tariffs
37. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Agroforestry
Ethnolect
Stimulus Diffusion
Subsistence Economy
38. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Race
Environmental Determinism
Geo-demography
39. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Barrio
Newly Industrialized Countries
Environmental Perception
Bilingualism
40. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Place
Mobility
Natural Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
41. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Human Geography
Barrio
Language
Toponym
42. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Geo-demography
Cultural Diffusion
Death Rate
Pull Factors
43. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Refugee
Language Branch
Ethnic Neighborhood
Migration
44. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Indigenous Culture
Import
Ethnic Group
Ghetto
45. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Popular Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Migration
46. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Migration
Human Geography
Ethnic Group
Environmental Racism
47. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Ethnic Group
Non-Material Culture
Birthrate
Ethnolect
48. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Quota
Globalization
Birth Rate
Place
49. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Developing Countries
Economic System
Material Culture
Folk Architecture
50. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Economic System
Lingua Franca
Population Density
Geo-demography