Unit 2 Culture Test Review

Question 1

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.

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expansion diffusion

Question 2

when peoples from an ethnic minority group/immigrant group join another more dominant culture and loose part of theirs

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Behavioral (cultural) assimilation

Question 3

the method of human communication, either spoken or written

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Language

Question 4

A common way of doing things

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Customs

Question 5

The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures.

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Cultural appropriation

Question 6

Which word is similar to customs?

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Traditions

Question 7

a group of people with a common racial, tribal, or religious background

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Ethnic Group

Question 8

the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

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Official Language

Question 9

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Diffusion

Question 10

Many people view _____ as their foundation for life.

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Religion

Question 11

Today's world is becoming.....

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More culturally blended

Question 12

religion whose principles might be based on the physical characteristics of the location where people live

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Ethnic Religion

Question 13

Occurs in landscapes with lack of cultural diversity and impersonal to the people. No significant ties to the place

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placelessness

Question 14

The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

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Acculturation

Question 15

Belief in one true god

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Monotheism

Question 16

A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

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Lingua Franca

Question 17

In large mixed societies, traits and habits that are shared despite differences in other personal characteristics.

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Popular culture

Question 18

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power =

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Religion

Question 19

cultures become alike sharing technology and organizational structures united by better transportation & communication

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Cultural convergence

Question 20

division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.

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Denomination

Question 21

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

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Taboo

Question 22

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

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Relocation diffusion

Question 23

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Hierarchical diffusion

Question 24

widely accepted ways of behaving or doing something

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Customs

Question 25

The Islamic culture that spreads across North Africa and Southwest Asia =

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cultural region

Question 26

the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people

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Culture

Question 27

cultural lifestyle handed down through oral tradition. demonstrates the "old ways" . Specific to location and community

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Folk Culture

Question 28

Human environmental , including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture

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Cultural landscape

Question 29

The state of having many different widely used languages

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Multilingual

Question 30

Which element has the bigger chance of bringing people together?

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Religion

Question 31

Culture is a word for the "_________" of groups of people

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Way of life

Question 32

How are goods produced & distributed to meet human needs =

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Economy

Question 33

The process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed =

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globalization

Question 34

a regional variety of language with unique features =

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Dialect

Question 35

The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Hierarchical diffusion

Question 36

Religion with many members whose doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe

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Universalizing religion

Question 37

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

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assimilation

Question 38

system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

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Language

Question 39

Belief that object, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms have spirits and conscious life

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Animism

Question 40

Belief in many gods

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Polytheism

Question 41

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

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Contagious diffusion

Unit 2 Culture Test Review

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Unit 2 Culture Test Review

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