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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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1. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Mobility
Emigrate
Ethnic Group
Pull Factors
2. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Linguistic Refuge Area
Mobility
Material Culture
Eco-feminism
3. Population geography
Ethnolect
Geo-demography
Death Rate
Acculturation
4. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Non-Material Culture
Thomas Malthus
slang
Economic System
5. The raising of plants or animals
Culture
Renewable Resources
Sex Ratio
Acculturation
6. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Import
Culture
Geography
7. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Pull Factors
Export
Region
8. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Birth Rate
Nation-State
Stimulus Diffusion
Refugee
9. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Stimulus Diffusion
Population Density
Region
Push factors
10. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Cultural Diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Ethnic Flag
11. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Monarchy
Acculturation
Refugee
Thomas Malthus
12. Visible - genetic differences among groups; physical - biological
Toponym
Ethnic Neighborhood
Renewable Resources
Race
13. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Developing Countries
slang
Eco-feminism
Ethnic Cleansing
14. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
free trade
Agroforestry
Expansion Diffusion
Culture
15. Favorable - attractive conditions that affect migration
Assimilation
Pull Factors
Pidgin
Language Branch
16. Structures built in a traditional manner
Economic System
Folk Architecture
Sex Ratio
Dictatorship
17. A limitation on imports
Isogloss
Possibilism
Export
Quota
18. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Developed Country
Economic System
Refugee
Ethnic Group
19. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Human Geography
Cultural Region
Cultural diffusion
Death Rate
20. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Cultural Diffusion
Folk Architecture
Bilingualism
Refugee
21. The young and the old in a society who need care
Dependent People
Cultural diffusion
Famine
Cultural Simplification
22. Total way of life held in common by a group of people; speech - behavior - beliefs - practices
Natural Resources
Cultural diffusion
Culture
Folk Architecture
23. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Race
Colonialism
Pull Factors
24. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Ethnic Group
Cultural Simplification
Dependent People
Famine
25. 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
free trade
Economic System
Cultural Simplification
26. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Democracy
Indigenous Culture
Folk Culture
Emigrate
27. Highly developed cultures
Pull Factors
Democracy
Civilization
Natural Resources
28. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Indigenous Culture
29. Original inhabitants of an area
Renewable Resources
Birth Rate
Indigenous Culture
Agroforestry
30. Massacre of a particular group
Death Rate
Relocation Diffusion
Linguistic Refuge Area
Genocide
31. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Ethnic Group
Quota
Language Branch
Polyglot
32. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Environmental Determinism
Migration
Barrio
Ethnic Cleansing
33. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Linguistic Refuge Area
Return Migration
Population Density
Push factors
34. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Ethnic Neighborhood
Dialect
Region
Pidgin
35. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Dialect
Barrio
slang
Lingua Franca
36. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Migration
Dictatorship
Isogloss
Ghetto
37. A group of people with norms - values - & material practices that differentiate them from the dominate culture
Subculture
Birthrate
Import
Barrio
38. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Chain Migration
Developing Countries
Famine
Lingua Franca
39. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Creole
Economic System
Democracy
Emigrate
40. 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
Ethnic Group
Developed Country
Urbanization
Dictatorship
41. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Ethnic Group
Refugee
Relocation Diffusion
Lingua Franca
42. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Urbanization
Acculturation
Culture
Ethnolect
43. Government ruled by the people
Urbanization
Democracy
Contagious Diffusion
Import
44. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Creole
Famine
Population Pyramid
Geography
45. Well-established language of communication and commerce; not the mother tongue
Absorbing Barrier
Lingua Franca
Bilingualism
Pull Factors
46. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Total Fertility Rate
Ethnic Flag
Folk Culture
Tariffs
47. 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
Death Rate
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Import
Nonrenewable Resources
48. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Death Rate
Genocide
Place
Geography
49. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Relocation Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Determinism
Urbanization
50. One who can speak many languages
Mobility
Population Pyramid
Polyglot
Pull Factors