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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Highly developed cultures
Import
Refugee
Civilization
Eco-feminism
2. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Assimilation
Cultural Simplification
Nonrenewable Resources
Language
3. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Emigrate
Monarchy
Isogloss
Material Culture
4. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Thomas Malthus
Popular Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
5. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Environmental Determinism
Symbolic Landscape
Cultural Simplification
Agroforestry
6. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Material Culture
Dialect
Pidgin
7. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Refugee
Involuntary Migration
Ethnoburb
Thomas Malthus
8. Original inhabitants of an area
Agroforestry
Indigenous Culture
Refugee
Eco-feminism
9. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Acculturation
Death Rate
Possibilism
10. The growth of cities
Pull Factors
Environmental Determinism
Urbanization
Symbolic Landscape
11. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Migration
Possibilism
Refugee
Absorbing Barrier
12. A government ruled by a king or queen
Folk Culture
Monarchy
Famine
Absorbing Barrier
13. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Refugee
Place
Dialect
Emigrate
14. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Dictatorship
Refugee
Environmental Perception
Indigenous Culture
15. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Cultural Region
Developed Country
Death Rate
Environmental Determinism
16. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Nation-State
Genocide
Possibilism
17. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Cultural diffusion
Economic System
Assimilation
Relocation Diffusion
18. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Dependent People
Subculture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Place
19. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Mobility
Permeable Barrier
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
20. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Globalization
Ghetto
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Death Rate
21. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
Eco-feminism
Bilingualism
22. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Expansion Diffusion
Culture
Chain Migration
Population Density
23. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Urbanization
Newly Industrialized Countries
Import
Folk Architecture
24. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Dialect
Ethnic Neighborhood
free trade
Region
25. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Subculture
Chain Migration
Quota
Newly Industrialized Countries
26. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
Ethnic Neighborhood
Possibilism
Birthrate
27. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Renewable Resources
Pull Factors
Population Pyramid
Globalization
28. 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
Death Rate
Ethnic Group
Famine
29. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Thomas Malthus
Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
Expansion Diffusion
30. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Eco-feminism
Human Geography
slang
31. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Isogloss
Agroforestry
Bilingualism
Colonialism
32. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Non-Material Culture
Newly Industrialized Countries
Nonrenewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
33. A language with a writing system
Famine
Literary Tradition
Toponym
Sex Ratio
34. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Nation-State
Globalization
Cultural Simplification
Subsistence Economy
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Absorbing Barrier
Nation-State
Subculture
36. Massacre of a particular group
Symbolic Landscape
Genocide
Quota
Assimilation
37. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Barrio
Acculturation
Pull Factors
38. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Ethnolect
Folk Culture
Linguistic Refuge Area
Assimilation
39. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Dependent People
Expansion Diffusion
Nation-State
Cultural diffusion
40. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Refugee
Ethnoburb
Permeable Barrier
Sex Ratio
41. Taxes on imports or exports
Death Rate
Migration
Race
Tariffs
42. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Subculture
Globalization
Sex Ratio
Ethnolect
43. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Creole
Non-Material Culture
Subsistence Economy
Globalization
44. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Linguistic Refuge Area
Birth Rate
Mobility
Region
45. The raising of plants or animals
Contagious Diffusion
Region
Ethnic Flag
Culture
46. Population geography
Geo-demography
Famine
Toponym
Tariffs
47. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Thomas Malthus
Ghetto
Folk Architecture
Eco-feminism
48. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Return Migration
Civilization
Absorbing Barrier
49. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Linguistic Refuge Area
Nonrenewable Resources
Ghetto
50. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Region
Return Migration
Eco-feminism
Developing Countries
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