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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Culture
Permeable Barrier
Folk Culture
Region
2. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Contagious Diffusion
Push factors
Dialect
Assimilation
3. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Developing Countries
Developed Country
Language Branch
Environmental Perception
4. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Refugee
Region
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Perception
5. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Developed Country
Geography
Return Migration
Language Branch
6. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Folk Architecture
Contagious Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Pyramid
7. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Barrio
Migration
Folk Culture
Renewable Resources
8. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Place
Acculturation
Subsistence Economy
Possibilism
9. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Population Pyramid
Dialect
Refugee
Push factors
10. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Bilingualism
Eco-feminism
Quota
Dialect
11. A limitation on imports
Polyglot
Sex Ratio
Chain Migration
Quota
12. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Permeable Barrier
Human Geography
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Perception
13. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Sex Ratio
Ethnoburb
slang
Developed Country
14. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Population Pyramid
Language
Human Geography
Refugee
15. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Material Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
Polyglot
Non-Material Culture
16. 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
Cultural diffusion
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Agroforestry
Popular Culture
17. Goods brought into a country
Import
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
free trade
Language
18. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
slang
Ethnic Neighborhood
Contagious Diffusion
Ghetto
19. Highly developed cultures
Nonrenewable Resources
Folk Culture
Barrio
Civilization
20. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Agroforestry
Creole
Permeable Barrier
Relocation Diffusion
21. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Democracy
Cultural Simplification
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Cultural Diffusion
22. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Toponym
Absorbing Barrier
Population Density
Creole
23. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Creole
Population Density
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
24. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Human Geography
Non-Material Culture
Birthrate
Genocide
25. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Polyglot
Subculture
Nonrenewable Resources
26. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Involuntary Migration
Globalization
Famine
27. The growth of cities
Dependent People
Migration
Urbanization
Economic System
28. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Natural Resources
Economic System
Ethnic Cleansing
Thomas Malthus
29. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Push factors
Ethnic Cleansing
Stimulus Diffusion
Folk Culture
30. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Isogloss
Democracy
Language Branch
Nonrenewable Resources
31. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Birthrate
Folk Culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Newly Industrialized Countries
32. Structures built in a traditional manner
Folk Architecture
Pidgin
Death Rate
Mobility
33. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Total Fertility Rate
Non-Material Culture
Material Culture
Cultural Simplification
34. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Indigenous Culture
Involuntary Migration
Birthrate
Refugee
35. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Environmental Racism
Permeable Barrier
Cultural Region
Environmental Perception
36. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Economic System
Barrio
Birthrate
Environmental Determinism
37. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Import
Ethnolect
Dialect
Civilization
38. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Colonialism
Geography
Barrio
Return Migration
39. To send goods to another country for sale
Birthrate
Ethnic Neighborhood
Nation-State
Export
40. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Pidgin
Cultural diffusion
Famine
Indigenous Culture
41. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Language Branch
Acculturation
Death Rate
Cultural diffusion
42. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
slang
Contagious Diffusion
Language
Creole
43. Massacre of a particular group
Eco-feminism
Dictatorship
Genocide
Environmental Perception
44. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Bilingualism
Pull Factors
Agroforestry
Language
45. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Environmental Racism
Chain Migration
Acculturation
Cultural Region
46. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Environmental Perception
Ethnoburb
Permeable Barrier
Dialect
47. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Birthrate
Ethnic Group
Export
Ethnoburb
48. Place-name
Assimilation
Toponym
Birthrate
Famine
49. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Emigrate
Involuntary Migration
Death Rate
Subculture
50. Taxes on imports or exports
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Flag
Total Fertility Rate
Tariffs
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