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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Import
Acculturation
Refugee
Subculture
2. The growth of cities
Stimulus Diffusion
Ghetto
Urbanization
Ethnic Flag
3. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Toponym
Refugee
Birth Rate
4. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Dictatorship
Refugee
Import
5. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Expansion Diffusion
Death Rate
Bilingualism
6. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Barrio
Permeable Barrier
Non-Material Culture
Colonialism
7. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Popular Culture
Quota
Bilingualism
8. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Language Branch
Subsistence Economy
slang
Nation-State
9. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Environmental Racism
Polyglot
Isogloss
Ethnic Group
10. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Population Density
Barrio
Urbanization
Ethnic Flag
11. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Ethnoburb
Return Migration
Genocide
Bilingualism
12. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Lingua Franca
Place
Cultural diffusion
Indigenous Culture
13. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Dialect
Culture
Import
Ethnic Cleansing
14. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Globalization
Folk Architecture
Material Culture
Subculture
15. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Absorbing Barrier
Acculturation
Quota
Dependent People
16. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Genocide
Language Branch
Developing Countries
Globalization
17. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Dictatorship
Eco-feminism
Nonrenewable Resources
Ethnic Flag
18. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Death Rate
Mobility
Language Family
19. Population geography
free trade
Developed Country
Pull Factors
Geo-demography
20. A limitation on imports
Quota
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Civilization
21. Resources that can be renewed
Region
Developing Countries
Renewable Resources
Creole
22. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Permeable Barrier
Ethnoburb
Nonrenewable Resources
Absorbing Barrier
23. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Agroforestry
Sex Ratio
Stimulus Diffusion
Creole
24. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Total Fertility Rate
Famine
Chain Migration
Civilization
25. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Contagious Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Environmental Perception
Death Rate
26. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Language Branch
Refugee
Globalization
Environmental Determinism
27. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Toponym
Death Rate
Newly Industrialized Countries
Material Culture
28. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Barrio
Creole
Monarchy
Involuntary Migration
29. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Ghetto
Colonialism
Bilingualism
Subculture
30. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Race
Quota
Ethnic Neighborhood
Nonrenewable Resources
31. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Return Migration
Thomas Malthus
Ethnic Neighborhood
Material Culture
32. Goods brought into a country
Return Migration
Ethnolect
Import
Dialect
33. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Geography
Genocide
Cultural Simplification
Symbolic Landscape
34. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Involuntary Migration
Thomas Malthus
Assimilation
Economic System
35. A government ruled by a king or queen
Population Pyramid
Assimilation
Monarchy
Lingua Franca
36. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Ethnic Flag
free trade
Polyglot
Symbolic Landscape
37. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Natural Resources
Language
Birthrate
Famine
38. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Tariffs
Eco-feminism
Region
Monarchy
39. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Environmental Racism
40. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Cultural Simplification
Push factors
Birth Rate
Race
41. Structures built in a traditional manner
Pull Factors
Death Rate
Dictatorship
Folk Architecture
42. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Civilization
Ethnic Flag
Place
43. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Death Rate
Bilingualism
Language
Migration
44. Growth to a global or worldwide scale
Geo-demography
Renewable Resources
Race
Globalization
45. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Absorbing Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Popular Culture
Language Family
46. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Population Pyramid
Death Rate
Colonialism
Nation-State
47. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Subsistence Economy
Relocation Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Developing Countries
48. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Popular Culture
Barrio
Indigenous Culture
49. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Tariffs
Folk Culture
Barrio
Dialect
50. Massacre of a particular group
Death Rate
Dictatorship
Genocide
Refugee