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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. A doctrine that proposes women are inherently better Environmental preservationists than men
Absorbing Barrier
Refugee
Linguistic Refuge Area
Eco-feminism
2. 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
Dialect
Civilization
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Cultural Simplification
3. The study of spatial patterns & of differences & similarities from one place to another in Environment and culture; to write about the earth
Environmental Determinism
Geography
Relocation Diffusion
Refugee
4. A country that is poorly developed - with citizens whos main income is agriculture. 'low income nations'
Total Fertility Rate
Developing Countries
Language
Region
5. Landscapes that express the values - beliefs - & meanings of a particular culture
Symbolic Landscape
Assimilation
Absorbing Barrier
Environmental Racism
6. An independent country dominated by a relatively homogeneous culture group
Language Branch
Absorbing Barrier
Nation-State
Cultural diffusion
7. Spread of an innovation that occurs by physically moving to a new area bringing the innovation with you
Ethnic Cleansing
Relocation Diffusion
Renewable Resources
Subculture
8. Those countries having much technology and manufacturing
Permeable Barrier
Developed Country
Quota
Non-Material Culture
9. Group of people who share common ancestry - language - religion - customs - or combination of such characteristics
Environmental Racism
Colonialism
Ethnic Group
Ethnoburb
10. The removal of an unwanted ethnic minority from a nation-state through mass-killing - deportation - or imprisonment
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Architecture
Urbanization
Ethnic Group
11. The young and the old in a society who need care
Thomas Malthus
Newly Industrialized Countries
Emigrate
Dependent People
12. The method used to answer these three questions: what goods and services to produce -how to produce them - and who will recieve them.
Ethnolect
Population Pyramid
Economic System
Ethnic Group
13. The spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area
Cultural diffusion
slang
Language Branch
Sex Ratio
14. A limitation on imports
Quota
Isogloss
Linguistic Refuge Area
Globalization
15. Leave one's country of residence for a new one
Emigrate
Environmental Perception
Sex Ratio
Import
16. Resources such as fossil fuels - which can not be made again.
Eco-feminism
Newly Industrialized Countries
Folk Culture
Nonrenewable Resources
17. An ethnic group adopts some ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially
Folk Architecture
Folk Culture
Import
Acculturation
18. A grouping of like places or the functional union of places into a spatial unit
Race
Region
Cultural diffusion
Absorbing Barrier
19. Impoverished urban - Hispanic neighborhood
Symbolic Landscape
Permeable Barrier
Birth Rate
Barrio
20. A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar - pronunciation - and vocabulary.
Expansion Diffusion
Dialect
Colonialism
Urbanization
21. The study of the relationships between people & the places where they live
Language Branch
Human Geography
Creole
Economic System
22. A collection of languages that are related because of a common ancestor
Language Family
Monarchy
Globalization
Developing Countries
23. A person forced to leave her or his home or country seeking protection from danger
Pull Factors
Urbanization
Refugee
Ethnic Cleansing
24. A government ruled by a king or queen
Monarchy
Chain Migration
Acculturation
Dialect
25. A type of expansion diffusion where an innovation spreads very quickly - like a fast spreading disease
Pull Factors
Refugee
Contagious Diffusion
Polyglot
26. A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea is accepted - Example: Reindeer
Stimulus Diffusion
Developed Country
Cultural diffusion
Assimilation
27. Wide range of tales - legends - lore - beliefs - superstitions
Nonrenewable Resources
Civilization
Mobility
Non-Material Culture
28. The forceful taking of territory by a distant state - often involving the displacement of indigenous populations to make way for other settlers
Colonialism
free trade
Globalization
Barrio
29. Population geography
Renewable Resources
Dependent People
Language Family
Geo-demography
30. Forced displacement of a population by government policy - violence - disease - war - enslavement - natural disaster - or ethnic cleansing
Isogloss
Cultural Simplification
Involuntary Migration
Contagious Diffusion
31. Original inhabitants of an area
Ethnic Flag
Indigenous Culture
Non-Material Culture
Ethnic Group
32. Structures built in a traditional manner
Acculturation
Environmental Perception
Eco-feminism
Folk Architecture
33. Tendency of people to migrate to the same area over time; as on goes - so do others
Thomas Malthus
Linguistic Refuge Area
Chain Migration
Dialect
34. A dialect spoken by a particular ethnic group
Acculturation
Ethnolect
Cultural Region
Birthrate
35. Economy where people consume only what they produce
Developing Countries
Subsistence Economy
Export
Ethnic Neighborhood
36. An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Ghetto
Cultural Region
Population Density
Ethnic Group
37. A visible marker of ethnicity on the landscape
Ethnic Flag
Race
Ethnoburb
Famine
38. Belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the Environment to be than on the actual character of the Environment
Environmental Perception
Dialect
Ethnic Neighborhood
Civilization
39. The average number of people in a square mile or square kilometer.
Dialect
Sex Ratio
Nonrenewable Resources
Population Density
40. The binding together of all the lands & peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by the marketplace; homogenization
Civilization
Globalization
Cultural Region
Ethnoburb
41. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another
Possibilism
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural Diffusion
free trade
42. All physical - tangible objects made & used by a group; Example; clothes - books - desks....
Famine
Language
Population Pyramid
Material Culture
43. The growth of cities
Environmental Racism
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Lingua Franca
Urbanization
44. The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive years
Death Rate
Total Fertility Rate
Toponym
Ethnolect
45. Annual number of births per 1000 of the population
Import
Possibilism
Popular Culture
Birth Rate
46. The annual number of deaths per 1000 of population
Death Rate
Mobility
Dialect
Geo-demography
47. Unfavorable - repelling conditions that affect migration
Push factors
Refugee
Indigenous Culture
Place
48. A collection of languages with a common origin but split into languages
Language Branch
Democracy
Chain Migration
Agroforestry
49. A graph used to show age and sex composition
Famine
Contagious Diffusion
Nonrenewable Resources
Population Pyramid
50. The absence of trade-distorting policies that give domestic firms - households - or factors of production an advantage over foreign ones
Economic System
Relocation Diffusion
Natural Resources
free trade