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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. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Civilization
Place
Indigenous Culture
Barrio
2. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Cleansing
Subsistence Economy
Push factors
3. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Ethnic Group
Creole
Language Family
Natural Resources
4. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Ghetto
Monarchy
Pidgin
Lingua Franca
5. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Language
Globalization
Refugee
Refugee
6. One who can speak many languages
Developing Countries
Agroforestry
Symbolic Landscape
Polyglot
7. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Natural Resources
Ethnic Group
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birth Rate
8. 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
Democracy
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Neighborhood
Globalization
9. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Region
Democracy
Chain Migration
10. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
Push factors
Permeable Barrier
Economic System
11. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Language
Death Rate
Ghetto
Dialect
12. A language with a writing system
Return Migration
Literary Tradition
Dialect
Death Rate
13. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Popular Culture
Dialect
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Linguistic Refuge Area
14. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Export
15. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Dialect
Refugee
Acculturation
Globalization
16. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Bilingualism
Indigenous Culture
Place
Literary Tradition
17. Massacre of a particular group
Import
Genocide
Monarchy
Folk Culture
18. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Ethnoburb
Subculture
Bilingualism
Refugee
19. Original inhabitants of an area
Population Density
Bilingualism
Indigenous Culture
Involuntary Migration
20. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Geography
Globalization
Nation-State
Language Family
21. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Culture
Language Branch
Environmental Determinism
Expansion Diffusion
22. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Total Fertility Rate
Language Branch
Tariffs
Migration
23. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Dialect
Linguistic Refuge Area
Non-Material Culture
Pidgin
24. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Newly Industrialized Countries
Relocation Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural Simplification
25. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Lingua Franca
Birth Rate
Acculturation
Birthrate
26. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Chain Migration
Environmental Determinism
Ethnic Flag
Agroforestry
27. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Symbolic Landscape
Refugee
Geography
Pull Factors
28. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Pidgin
Possibilism
Expansion Diffusion
29. Place-name
Dependent People
Thomas Malthus
Language Branch
Toponym
30. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Cultural Diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Bilingualism
Tariffs
31. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Ethnoburb
Race
Eco-feminism
Agroforestry
32. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Emigrate
Cultural Region
Newly Industrialized Countries
Bilingualism
33. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Population Density
Permeable Barrier
Return Migration
Sex Ratio
34. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Stimulus Diffusion
Cultural Region
Refugee
Isogloss
35. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Monarchy
Acculturation
Region
Polyglot
36. A limitation on imports
Symbolic Landscape
Quota
Ethnic Neighborhood
Push factors
37. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Human Geography
Environmental Perception
Culture
Civilization
38. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Pidgin
Dictatorship
Culture
Dialect
39. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Creole
Push factors
Birthrate
Refugee
40. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Ghetto
Tariffs
Creole
Material Culture
41. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Geography
Bilingualism
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnic Flag
42. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Sex Ratio
Creole
Environmental Determinism
Death Rate
43. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Language Branch
Non-Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
Lingua Franca
44. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Popular Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries
Migration
Sex Ratio
45. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Creole
Environmental Determinism
Monarchy
46. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Birthrate
Developing Countries
Push factors
Environmental Determinism
47. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Sex Ratio
Popular Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
Genocide
48. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Literary Tradition
Human Geography
Democracy
Assimilation
49. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Absorbing Barrier
Bilingualism
Dialect
Subsistence Economy
50. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Non-Material Culture
Colonialism
Place
Emigrate