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DSST Cultural Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Nation-State
Death Rate
Ethnic Flag
Monarchy
2. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Race
Refugee
Dependent People
Migration
3. The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process; users increase & area of occurrence grows
Quota
Expansion Diffusion
Globalization
Return Migration
4. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
Quota
Sex Ratio
Birthrate
5. Government ruled by the people
Democracy
Return Migration
Push factors
Place
6. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Refugee
Lingua Franca
Cultural Region
Pidgin
7. Massacre of a particular group
Cultural diffusion
Genocide
Linguistic Refuge Area
Population Pyramid
8. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Geography
Language Family
Ethnic Cleansing
Birthrate
9. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Environmental Perception
Colonialism
Dialect
Push factors
10. The belief that cultures are directly shaped by the physical environment
Natural Resources
Monarchy
Population Density
Environmental Determinism
11. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Thomas Malthus
Migration
Death Rate
Contagious Diffusion
12. Resources that can be renewed
Death Rate
Renewable Resources
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Language
13. A limitation on imports
Sex Ratio
Ethnoburb
Race
Quota
14. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Urbanization
Human Geography
Permeable Barrier
Contagious Diffusion
15. Believed population will grow faster than food supply
Genocide
Dialect
Thomas Malthus
Democracy
16. Population geography
Genocide
Culture
Birth Rate
Geo-demography
17. An area in the suburbs where a particular ethnic group resides
Ethnoburb
Tariffs
Chain Migration
Human Geography
18. Original inhabitants of an area
Folk Culture
Return Migration
Indigenous Culture
Subculture
19. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Population Density
Death Rate
Geo-demography
Ethnic Group
20. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Dialect
Relocation Diffusion
Civilization
Non-Material Culture
21. A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens continued spread
Birthrate
Culture
Genocide
Permeable Barrier
22. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Acculturation
Refugee
Import
Famine
23. Contaminated areas where ethnic or racial groups may live
Return Migration
Cultural diffusion
Symbolic Landscape
Environmental Racism
24. Those fleeing from persecution in their country
Assimilation
Language
Colonialism
Refugee
25. Structures built in a traditional manner
Ghetto
Folk Architecture
Human Geography
Expansion Diffusion
26. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Relocation Diffusion
Emigrate
Barrio
Linguistic Refuge Area
27. The ability of people - ideas - or things to move freely through space
Geo-demography
Mobility
Emigrate
Ethnic Group
28. A language with a writing system
Geography
Popular Culture
Death Rate
Literary Tradition
29. A group of people who share a common acestry or traditions living as a minority in a larger society
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Folk Architecture
Ethnic Group
Indigenous Culture
30. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Natural Resources
Famine
Pidgin
Developed Country
31. A part of a region; more personal - individual - Ex. McHenry
Culture
Birth Rate
Dialect
Place
32. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
Geo-demography
Ethnic Cleansing
33. Place-name
Toponym
Cultural Simplification
Thomas Malthus
Birthrate
34. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Cultural Diffusion
Cultural Simplification
Ethnic Neighborhood
Ethnic Flag
35. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Dependent People
Non-Material Culture
Region
Toponym
36. One who can speak many languages
Population Pyramid
Place
Polyglot
Developing Countries
37. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Mobility
Cultural Simplification
Environmental Perception
Barrio
38. Taxes on imports or exports
Natural Resources
Tariffs
Stimulus Diffusion
Dialect
39. The growth of cities
Urbanization
Possibilism
Folk Architecture
Subculture
40. A cultivation system that features the interpolating of trees with field crops
Pidgin
Agroforestry
Push factors
Polyglot
41. Things found in nature that people can use to meet their needs
Refugee
Stimulus Diffusion
Natural Resources
Civilization
42. Small - cohesive - conservative - isolated - nerly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race
Creole
Folk Culture
Symbolic Landscape
Civilization
43. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Environmental Perception
Indigenous Culture
Ethnic Group
free trade
44. A voluntary community where people of like origin live by choice
Race
Ethnic Neighborhood
Population Density
Ethnic Flag
45. 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
Push factors
Creole
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Birth Rate
46. A language with a small vocabulary borrowed from another language; used in commerce
Bilingualism
Pidgin
Place
Culture
47. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Population Density
Population Pyramid
Material Culture
Involuntary Migration
48. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Colonialism
Subsistence Economy
Developing Countries
Literary Tradition
49. A government ruled by a king or queen
Cultural diffusion
Monarchy
Race
Refugee
50. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Environmental Racism
Civilization
Cultural Diffusion
Literary Tradition