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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Developed Country
Refugee
Nation-State
Lingua Franca
2. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Cultural Simplification
Pidgin
Indigenous Culture
Dictatorship
3. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Possibilism
Death Rate
Developing Countries
Ethnic Group
4. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Language Branch
Renewable Resources
Folk Culture
Ethnoburb
5. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Bilingualism
Stimulus Diffusion
Dialect
6. Place-name
Export
Toponym
Dialect
Cultural Diffusion
7. Refers to countries that are building up their industries and infrastructure. These countries are generally shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
Newly Industrialized Countries
Polyglot
Push factors
Pull Factors
8. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Folk Architecture
Renewable Resources
Nation-State
Return Migration
9. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Dictatorship
Lingua Franca
Developed Country
Popular Culture
10. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Polyglot
Contagious Diffusion
Population Density
Economic System
11. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Push factors
Literary Tradition
Material Culture
Cultural Region
12. Highly developed cultures
Environmental Perception
Civilization
Ethnolect
Developed Country
13. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnic Neighborhood
Nonrenewable Resources
Export
Death Rate
14. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Involuntary Migration
Ethnic Cleansing
Language
Democracy
15. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Lingua Franca
Culture
Agroforestry
Environmental Racism
16. A government ruled by a king or queen
Place
Monarchy
slang
Symbolic Landscape
17. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Language Branch
Place
Pull Factors
Relocation Diffusion
18. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Environmental Racism
Famine
Linguistic Refuge Area
Bilingualism
19. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Culture
Contagious Diffusion
Colonialism
20. The raising of plants or animals
Dependent People
Ethnic Cleansing
Race
Culture
21. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Import
Genocide
Famine
22. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Literary Tradition
Return Migration
Indigenous Culture
Push factors
23. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Chain Migration
Geography
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Architecture
24. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Popular Culture
Developed Country
Race
Absorbing Barrier
25. A government in which the people have no rights; one person or a small group of people rule the country by force and make all the laws
slang
Dictatorship
Developed Country
Population Pyramid
26. A belief - theory that the Environment may be one influence in how a person or culture develops but that there are other equally important factors
Dependent People
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
Possibilism
27. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Urbanization
Symbolic Landscape
Toponym
Subculture
28. The growth of cities
Natural Resources
Urbanization
Absorbing Barrier
Folk Culture
29. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Permeable Barrier
Death Rate
Folk Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
30. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
free trade
Human Geography
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Urbanization
31. Resources that can be renewed
Renewable Resources
Ethnic Cleansing
Developed Country
Geography
32. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Geo-demography
Ethnolect
Ethnic Flag
Lingua Franca
33. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Symbolic Landscape
Nation-State
Ethnic Group
Barrio
34. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Stimulus Diffusion
Literary Tradition
Lingua Franca
Eco-feminism
35. Goods brought into a country
Export
Import
Ethnolect
Isogloss
36. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Return Migration
Refugee
Dialect
Famine
37. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Cultural Region
Geo-demography
Refugee
Barrio
38. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Globalization
Ethnic Group
Agroforestry
Language Branch
39. One who can speak many languages
Monarchy
Absorbing Barrier
Ghetto
Polyglot
40. Government ruled by the people
Developed Country
Developing Countries
Dependent People
Democracy
41. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Nonrenewable Resources
Death Rate
Cultural Diffusion
Subculture
42. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Refugee
Nonrenewable Resources
Cultural diffusion
Emigrate
43. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Migration
Isogloss
Environmental Perception
Stimulus Diffusion
44. A limitation on imports
Quota
Language
Dictatorship
Colonialism
45. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Ethnic Cleansing
Eco-feminism
Language Branch
46. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Bilingualism
Permeable Barrier
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Colonialism
47. A language with a writing system
Possibilism
Ethnic Group
Literary Tradition
Natural Resources
48. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Mobility
Dialect
Environmental Determinism
Colonialism
49. Population geography
Non-Material Culture
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Natural Resources
Geo-demography
50. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Acculturation
Thomas Malthus
Cultural diffusion
Agroforestry