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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Globalization
Ethnolect
Population Density
Human Geography
2. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Geography
Barrio
Ethnic Group
Lingua Franca
3. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Death Rate
Subsistence Economy
Birth Rate
Dialect
4. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Natural Resources
Contagious Diffusion
Subculture
5. To send goods to another country for sale
Geography
Dependent People
Symbolic Landscape
Export
6. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Natural Resources
Mobility
Thomas Malthus
Chain Migration
7. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Region
Ethnic Neighborhood
Isogloss
Import
8. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
Dictatorship
9. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Famine
Race
Tariffs
Human Geography
10. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Linguistic Refuge Area
Refugee
Birth Rate
Population Density
11. 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
Linguistic Refuge Area
Barrio
Culture
Possibilism
12. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Contagious Diffusion
Developed Country
Literary Tradition
13. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
slang
Nation-State
Folk Architecture
14. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Import
Population Pyramid
Cultural Simplification
Monarchy
15. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Permeable Barrier
Birth Rate
Chain Migration
16. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Globalization
Ethnic Neighborhood
Acculturation
Symbolic Landscape
17. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Economic System
Dictatorship
Migration
Assimilation
18. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
slang
Refugee
19. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Dialect
Region
Subculture
Chain Migration
20. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Eco-feminism
Thomas Malthus
Migration
21. The raising of plants or animals
Polyglot
Ethnic Neighborhood
Cultural Diffusion
Culture
22. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Export
Permeable Barrier
Bilingualism
Emigrate
23. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
Developing Countries
Economic System
24. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Creole
Expansion Diffusion
Dependent People
Region
25. A limitation on imports
Linguistic Refuge Area
Eco-feminism
Quota
Population Pyramid
26. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Absorbing Barrier
Human Geography
Expansion Diffusion
27. Population geography
Dialect
Absorbing Barrier
Geo-demography
Symbolic Landscape
28. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Ethnoburb
Refugee
Relocation Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
29. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Export
Dialect
Birthrate
Lingua Franca
30. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Civilization
Cultural Region
Ethnoburb
Globalization
31. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Involuntary Migration
Isogloss
Mobility
Language
32. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Human Geography
Ethnic Flag
Expansion Diffusion
Birthrate
33. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
slang
Sex Ratio
34. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Geo-demography
Isogloss
Folk Architecture
35. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Newly Industrialized Countries
Return Migration
Cultural Region
Folk Architecture
36. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Culture
Famine
Acculturation
Population Pyramid
37. Government ruled by the people
Sex Ratio
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Democracy
Export
38. A language with a writing system
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Literary Tradition
Symbolic Landscape
39. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Chain Migration
Thomas Malthus
Absorbing Barrier
Place
40. 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
Colonialism
Cultural Region
Relocation Diffusion
41. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Return Migration
slang
Subsistence Economy
Language
42. Place-name
Colonialism
Toponym
Geography
Lingua Franca
43. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Natural Resources
Death Rate
Indigenous Culture
Tariffs
44. Highly developed cultures
Globalization
Mobility
Lingua Franca
Civilization
45. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Sex Ratio
Nation-State
Indigenous Culture
Absorbing Barrier
46. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Subculture
free trade
Ethnic Group
Economic System
47. Massacre of a particular group
Total Fertility Rate
Death Rate
Folk Architecture
Genocide
48. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Ghetto
Non-Material Culture
Pull Factors
Newly Industrialized Countries
49. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Return Migration
Stimulus Diffusion
Natural Resources
Language
50. Goods brought into a country
Import
Emigrate
Isogloss
Return Migration