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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Immigrants introduce some traditions to new land - but less complex than those in the old country
Language
Death Rate
Cultural Simplification
slang
2. A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication for speaking and/or writing
Stimulus Diffusion
Culture
Relocation Diffusion
Language
3. The ability to speak 2 languages fluently
Thomas Malthus
Bilingualism
Expansion Diffusion
Ethnic Group
4. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Material Culture
Dictatorship
5. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Push factors
Death Rate
Population Density
Genocide
6. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Stimulus Diffusion
Toponym
Push factors
Language Family
7. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Total Fertility Rate
Barrio
Urbanization
8. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Colonialism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Human Geography
Language Branch
9. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Quota
Non-Material Culture
Dictatorship
Colonialism
10. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Density
Cultural diffusion
11. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Ethnic Group
Possibilism
Isogloss
Birth Rate
12. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Refugee
Thomas Malthus
Possibilism
Ethnic Neighborhood
13. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Newly Industrialized Countries
Genocide
Isogloss
14. The young and the old in a society who need care
Place
Dependent People
Democracy
Environmental Determinism
15. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Popular Culture
Human Geography
Folk Culture
Globalization
16. A language derived from pidgin that has a fuller vocabulary and has become the native language of a group
Natural Resources
Creole
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Sex Ratio
17. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
Lingua Franca
Dialect
18. Words and phrases not part of a standard - recognized language
Developed Country
slang
Nonrenewable Resources
Toponym
19. One who can speak many languages
Culture
Polyglot
Race
Monarchy
20. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Chain Migration
Death Rate
Nonrenewable Resources
Natural Resources
21. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Cultural Diffusion
Culture
Population Pyramid
Geography
22. A distinctive local or regional variant of a language
Population Pyramid
Dialect
Toponym
Renewable Resources
23. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Pull Factors
Total Fertility Rate
Environmental Racism
Dependent People
24. A limitation on imports
Quota
Folk Architecture
slang
Absorbing Barrier
25. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Chain Migration
Cultural Region
Quota
Dialect
26. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Pidgin
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
Environmental Determinism
27. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Language
Nonrenewable Resources
Material Culture
28. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Population Density
Region
slang
Tariffs
29. 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
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Push factors
Refugee
30. Taxes on imports or exports
Environmental Perception
Chain Migration
Possibilism
Tariffs
31. The numerical ratio of males to females
Sex Ratio
Stimulus Diffusion
Culture
Refugee
32. Original inhabitants of an area
Total Fertility Rate
Indigenous Culture
Quota
Lingua Franca
33. Voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to native country
Folk Culture
Return Migration
Linguistic Refuge Area
Agroforestry
34. Number of people out of every 1 -000 who die in a year
Involuntary Migration
Economic System
Death Rate
Permeable Barrier
35. Border of word usage or pronunciation
Death Rate
Birthrate
Ethnic Group
Isogloss
36. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Isogloss
Developing Countries
Eco-feminism
Refugee
37. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Environmental Racism
Acculturation
Culture
Death Rate
38. The growth of cities
Creole
Ethnic Flag
Urbanization
Ethnic Cleansing
39. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Push factors
Democracy
Developing Countries
Mobility
40. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
Return Migration
Sex Ratio
41. Resources that can be renewed
Culture
Migration
Renewable Resources
Famine
42. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Ethnic Neighborhood
Geography
Non-Material Culture
Assimilation
43. Place-name
Nonrenewable Resources
Famine
Toponym
Popular Culture
44. An area protected by isolation where a language has survived unchanged
Relocation Diffusion
Permeable Barrier
Acculturation
Linguistic Refuge Area
45. Goods brought into a country
Folk Architecture
Import
Dialect
Ghetto
46. Massacre of a particular group
Creole
Genocide
Ethnic Group
Globalization
47. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Economic System
Contagious Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion
Environmental Racism
48. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Language Branch
Cultural Diffusion
Refugee
Pidgin
49. A barrier that completely halts the diffusion or spread of an innovation; completely blocks
Absorbing Barrier
Ethnolect
Push factors
Dependent People
50. Number of live births per 1000 population in a given year
Total Fertility Rate
Colonialism
Birthrate
Ethnic Group