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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Tariffs
Creole
Total Fertility Rate
2. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Region
Stimulus Diffusion
Ethnic Group
Language
3. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Region
Language
Subculture
Death Rate
4. One who can speak many languages
Chain Migration
Polyglot
Export
Quota
5. Massacre of a particular group
Genocide
Quota
Region
Toponym
6. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Environmental Determinism
Permeable Barrier
Migration
Sex Ratio
7. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Symbolic Landscape
Renewable Resources
Culture
Relocation Diffusion
8. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Involuntary Migration
Bilingualism
Language Branch
Subculture
9. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Permeable Barrier
Ghetto
Assimilation
10. Population geography
Geo-demography
Cultural Diffusion
Assimilation
Indigenous Culture
11. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Developed Country
Eco-feminism
Famine
Human Geography
12. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Thomas Malthus
Non-Material Culture
Possibilism
13. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Relocation Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
Culture
Pull Factors
14. Government ruled by the people
Emigrate
Folk Architecture
Democracy
Literary Tradition
15. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Export
Dependent People
Pull Factors
16. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Permeable Barrier
Cultural diffusion
Dialect
Emigrate
17. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Creole
Famine
Quota
Relocation Diffusion
18. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Relocation Diffusion
Economic System
Dialect
Ethnic Neighborhood
19. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Dependent People
Folk Culture
Total Fertility Rate
Colonialism
20. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
Isogloss
Eco-feminism
21. Highly developed cultures
Civilization
Involuntary Migration
Population Pyramid
Folk Culture
22. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Globalization
Monarchy
Pidgin
Ethnoburb
23. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Genocide
Subsistence Economy
Culture
Barrio
24. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Non-Material Culture
Migration
Export
25. Taxes on imports or exports
Dialect
Geo-demography
Tariffs
Globalization
26. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Assimilation
Return Migration
Refugee
Ethnic Neighborhood
27. 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
Birth Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Lingua Franca
Literary Tradition
28. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Place
Cultural Simplification
Ethnoburb
29. The young and the old in a society who need care
Monarchy
Import
slang
Dependent People
30. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Lingua Franca
Cultural Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Mobility
31. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Natural Resources
Region
Birthrate
Monarchy
32. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Emigrate
Expansion Diffusion
Geography
Ethnic Cleansing
33. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Agroforestry
Ethnic Cleansing
Culture
Economic System
34. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Developing Countries
Possibilism
Push factors
Civilization
35. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Region
Democracy
Material Culture
36. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Birthrate
Popular Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Newly Industrialized Countries
37. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Cultural Diffusion
Toponym
Monarchy
Involuntary Migration
38. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Population Density
slang
Dictatorship
Ghetto
39. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Economic System
Colonialism
Cultural Region
Urbanization
40. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Contagious Diffusion
Non-Material Culture
Renewable Resources
Folk Culture
41. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Urbanization
Thomas Malthus
Dialect
42. Original inhabitants of an area
Indigenous Culture
Bilingualism
Cultural Simplification
Possibilism
43. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Folk Culture
Region
Cultural Diffusion
Culture
44. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Culture
Place
Subsistence Economy
Return Migration
45. The growth of cities
Culture
Urbanization
Barrio
Dialect
46. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Cultural diffusion
Language Branch
47. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Tariffs
Environmental Determinism
Globalization
Emigrate
48. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Genocide
Nation-State
Pull Factors
Ethnic Neighborhood
49. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Export
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dialect
50. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Refugee
slang
Geo-demography
Environmental Perception
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