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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Subculture
Folk Architecture
free trade
Renewable Resources
2. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
Subsistence Economy
Nation-State
3. A limitation on imports
Bilingualism
Death Rate
Quota
Developed Country
4. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Push factors
Famine
Environmental Racism
Developed Country
5. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Birthrate
Refugee
Language
Assimilation
6. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Colonialism
Birthrate
Ethnic Group
Human Geography
7. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Economic System
Language Family
Environmental Perception
Population Density
8. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Cultural diffusion
Population Density
Ethnic Group
Death Rate
9. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Stimulus Diffusion
Agroforestry
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Globalization
10. To send goods to another country for sale
Export
Civilization
Ethnolect
Population Density
11. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Pull Factors
Culture
free trade
Subculture
12. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Creole
Natural Resources
Economic System
Language
13. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Polyglot
Population Pyramid
Thomas Malthus
Population Density
14. Population geography
Civilization
Bilingualism
Geo-demography
Population Pyramid
15. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Developing Countries
Ethnolect
Migration
Creole
16. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Globalization
Nonrenewable Resources
Relocation Diffusion
Language Family
17. The numerical ratio of males to females
Language Family
Developed Country
Ghetto
Sex Ratio
18. Taxes on imports or exports
Environmental Racism
Cultural Simplification
Refugee
Tariffs
19. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Folk Architecture
free trade
Renewable Resources
Lingua Franca
20. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Ethnic Group
Cultural diffusion
Pidgin
Democracy
21. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Permeable Barrier
Return Migration
Acculturation
Cultural Region
22. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Emigrate
Export
Pidgin
Ghetto
23. Culture based in large - heterogeneous societies permitting individualism - CHANGE - money - economy - weakened interpersonal relationships.
Material Culture
Expansion Diffusion
Popular Culture
Cultural Simplification
24. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Newly Industrialized Countries
Dependent People
Death Rate
Expansion Diffusion
25. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Assimilation
Eco-feminism
Developed Country
Environmental Perception
26. An area of city where ethnic group lives by choice or by force
Import
Famine
Ghetto
Cultural Simplification
27. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Agroforestry
Human Geography
Total Fertility Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
28. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Absorbing Barrier
Renewable Resources
Geo-demography
Subsistence Economy
29. Structures built in a traditional manner
Geo-demography
Permeable Barrier
Folk Architecture
Ethnolect
30. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Folk Culture
Toponym
Population Density
Acculturation
31. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Assimilation
Linguistic Refuge Area
Developing Countries
Quota
32. Goods brought into a country
Region
Ethnic Flag
Emigrate
Import
33. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Monarchy
Cultural Simplification
Push factors
Acculturation
34. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Colonialism
Pull Factors
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Group
35. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Democracy
Acculturation
Cultural Region
Cultural Simplification
36. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Popular Culture
Indigenous Culture
Creole
Globalization
37. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Bilingualism
Mobility
Ethnoburb
Death Rate
38. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Mobility
Export
Thomas Malthus
Death Rate
39. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Human Geography
Permeable Barrier
Sex Ratio
Economic System
40. Massacre of a particular group
Culture
Genocide
Dialect
Developing Countries
41. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Toponym
Dialect
Total Fertility Rate
Nation-State
42. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Colonialism
Ethnolect
Folk Architecture
43. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Symbolic Landscape
Literary Tradition
Language
Linguistic Refuge Area
44. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Culture
Bilingualism
Dialect
Sex Ratio
45. A government ruled by a king or queen
Democracy
Emigrate
Popular Culture
Monarchy
46. Place-name
Ghetto
Toponym
Developing Countries
Race
47. Large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world
Barrio
Possibilism
Migration
Geo-demography
48. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Language
Polyglot
Contagious Diffusion
Permeable Barrier
49. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Assimilation
Relocation Diffusion
Export
Symbolic Landscape
50. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnic Group
Cultural diffusion
Ethnoburb
Toponym