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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. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Cultural diffusion
Isogloss
Return Migration
2. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Import
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dictatorship
3. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Famine
Popular Culture
Absorbing Barrier
4. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
slang
Subculture
5. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Contagious Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Determinism
6. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Tariffs
Renewable Resources
Refugee
Return Migration
7. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Globalization
Symbolic Landscape
Population Pyramid
Subsistence Economy
8. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Natural Resources
Dependent People
Import
9. Population geography
Geo-demography
Globalization
Cultural Diffusion
Subculture
10. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Thomas Malthus
Expansion Diffusion
Subculture
11. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Region
Linguistic Refuge Area
Dialect
Dependent People
12. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Civilization
Return Migration
Birth Rate
13. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Birth Rate
Ethnic Group
Ethnoburb
Globalization
14. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Civilization
Human Geography
Possibilism
15. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural Diffusion
Developing Countries
Stimulus Diffusion
16. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Thomas Malthus
Colonialism
Possibilism
Culture
17. Highly developed cultures
Folk Culture
Ghetto
Civilization
Urbanization
18. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Culture
Material Culture
Chain Migration
Dialect
19. One who can speak many languages
Globalization
Total Fertility Rate
Death Rate
Polyglot
20. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Thomas Malthus
Geography
Refugee
Famine
21. Resources that can be renewed
Mobility
Renewable Resources
Refugee
Return Migration
22. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Non-Material Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Export
Linguistic Refuge Area
23. 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
Mobility
Genocide
Geo-demography
24. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Civilization
Return Migration
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Group
25. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Birth Rate
Economic System
Chain Migration
Possibilism
26. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Folk Culture
Economic System
Region
free trade
27. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Region
Nonrenewable Resources
Possibilism
Globalization
28. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Ghetto
Subculture
Population Pyramid
Culture
29. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Ethnic Cleansing
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Creole
Isogloss
30. Taxes on imports or exports
slang
Ethnic Neighborhood
Tariffs
Isogloss
31. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Developing Countries
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Culture
Dialect
32. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Neighborhood
Quota
Expansion Diffusion
33. The numerical ratio of males to females
Tariffs
Sex Ratio
Contagious Diffusion
Death Rate
34. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Genocide
Famine
Dialect
Ethnic Flag
35. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Urbanization
Pull Factors
Relocation Diffusion
36. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Economic System
Assimilation
Absorbing Barrier
Place
37. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Export
Population Density
Civilization
Stimulus Diffusion
38. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Eco-feminism
Population Density
Ethnolect
39. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Creole
Cultural diffusion
Famine
Expansion Diffusion
40. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Environmental Racism
Isogloss
Folk Culture
Relocation Diffusion
41. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Indigenous Culture
Subsistence Economy
Newly Industrialized Countries
42. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Material Culture
Renewable Resources
Linguistic Refuge Area
43. 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
Globalization
Region
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Language Family
44. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Democracy
Ethnic Group
Relocation Diffusion
45. A limitation on imports
Quota
Population Density
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
46. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Culture
Bilingualism
Globalization
Mobility
47. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Migration
Involuntary Migration
Agroforestry
Birthrate
48. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Mobility
Dictatorship
Polyglot
49. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Migration
Urbanization
Language
Human Geography
50. Place-name
Globalization
Toponym
Pull Factors
Ethnic Flag