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DSST Cultural Geography
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1. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Polyglot
Geography
Language Family
Subsistence Economy
2. The numerical ratio of males to females
slang
Involuntary Migration
Sex Ratio
Agroforestry
3. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Developing Countries
Dialect
slang
4. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Population Density
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural diffusion
Bilingualism
5. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Death Rate
Economic System
Indigenous Culture
Lingua Franca
6. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Dialect
Push factors
Nation-State
Mobility
7. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Cultural diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
Natural Resources
Ethnic Group
8. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Agroforestry
Dialect
Environmental Determinism
Folk Architecture
9. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Place
Urbanization
Absorbing Barrier
Stimulus Diffusion
10. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Globalization
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnoburb
Migration
11. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Globalization
Refugee
Dialect
Environmental Determinism
12. Population geography
Race
Civilization
Ethnic Group
Geo-demography
13. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Ethnic Group
Nonrenewable Resources
Import
Birth Rate
14. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Total Fertility Rate
Race
Relocation Diffusion
Ethnolect
15. 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
Geo-demography
Dictatorship
Ethnolect
Developed Country
16. The raising of plants or animals
slang
Thomas Malthus
free trade
Culture
17. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Cultural Simplification
Renewable Resources
Involuntary Migration
Birthrate
18. Place-name
Chain Migration
Region
Toponym
Expansion Diffusion
19. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Ethnic Neighborhood
Subsistence Economy
Assimilation
20. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Globalization
Place
Famine
Bilingualism
21. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Eco-feminism
Language Branch
Pull Factors
22. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Toponym
Expansion Diffusion
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
23. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Race
free trade
Environmental Racism
Region
24. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Popular Culture
Birthrate
Non-Material Culture
25. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Colonialism
Human Geography
Birth Rate
Toponym
26. Complete bending of ethnic group with host society
Thomas Malthus
Involuntary Migration
Assimilation
Sex Ratio
27. To send goods to another country for sale
Ethnoburb
Export
Subculture
Subsistence Economy
28. The young and the old in a society who need care
Language Family
Ethnoburb
Material Culture
Dependent People
29. Structures built in a traditional manner
Ethnic Group
Thomas Malthus
Renewable Resources
Folk Architecture
30. A limitation on imports
Quota
Language Branch
Environmental Determinism
Dictatorship
31. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Ghetto
Possibilism
Push factors
Acculturation
32. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Ethnolect
Democracy
Birthrate
Ethnic Neighborhood
33. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Colonialism
Pull Factors
Environmental Perception
34. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Assimilation
Pull Factors
Material Culture
Stimulus Diffusion
35. Resources that can be renewed
Population Pyramid
Refugee
Urbanization
Renewable Resources
36. A language with a writing system
Literary Tradition
Geo-demography
Pull Factors
Toponym
37. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Total Fertility Rate
Region
Cultural Simplification
Permeable Barrier
38. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Birth Rate
Assimilation
Ghetto
Lingua Franca
39. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
slang
Expansion Diffusion
Newly Industrialized Countries
Ethnic Cleansing
40. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Eco-feminism
Involuntary Migration
Cultural Simplification
Developing Countries
41. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Pull Factors
Subculture
Cultural diffusion
Polyglot
42. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Barrio
Ethnic Group
slang
Ethnic Flag
43. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Pyramid
Developing Countries
Democracy
Folk Architecture
44. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Agroforestry
Barrio
Civilization
Contagious Diffusion
45. Taxes on imports or exports
Tariffs
Ethnic Group
Contagious Diffusion
Push factors
46. 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
Non-Material Culture
Refugee
Globalization
47. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Civilization
Contagious Diffusion
Isogloss
Chain Migration
48. Government ruled by the people
Ethnoburb
Isogloss
Geo-demography
Democracy
49. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Death Rate
Developing Countries
Dialect
Polyglot
50. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Economic System
Ethnic Neighborhood
Birth Rate
Creole
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