What is an ethnic religion?

A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution.

What would happen to the language if the U.S. cut communications between different regions?

More dialect varieties would occur

Why are there so many Christian churches world wide?

Church attendance is a big part of practicing the religion

What is a superfamily?

Highly controversial theory that language families used to be combined.

What is a universalizing religion?

Religion attempting to be global

Which of the following characteristics best describes the role of the calendar in an ethnic religion?

Holidays are based on the distinctive physical geography of the homeland

What is a lingua franca?

A language mutually understood and used in trade by people.

Why do geographers need to understand religion?

Shows how migration of people and their religions changes locations.

Why is geography important to ethnic religions?

A religion with principles based on physical characteristics of location.

Which of the following is the best evidence of Quentin Atkinson's theory?

Languages are more complex and diverse in Africa

What is a dying language?

The only remaining fluent speakers are older people, Childbearing generation is not capable of teaching the language to children

What is the difference between a dialect and language group?

Dialect is a variety of language

Place of worship that houses the holiest book in the religion.

What is an endangered language?

Language threatened with extinction

Which of the following best describes Quentin Atkinson's theory of the origins of language?

Argued that all languages can be ultimately traced to Africa

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1
Which example causes the most people to speak the same language?
Step migration
Spread of the Roman Empire
Irish Potato Famine
Chain migration of a family to a developed country
2
What is an ethnic religion?
A religion that is attempting to be global
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution.
A religion with one deity
Dominate religions in the Western Hemisphere
3
What would happen to the language if the U.S. cut communications between different regions?
More languages would occur
More globalization of one language
Less dialects would be created
More dialect varieties would occur
4
Why are there so many Christian churches world wide?
They are focused on the connection to their environment
They have a few large divisions within the faith
Church attendance is a big part of practicing the religion
They are a small % of religions practiced but spread throughout the world
5
Quebec speaking French and English is the result of language being distributed by...
Migratory patterns
Religious diffusion
Communication patterns
Food diffusion
6
What is a superfamily?
These languages are spoken by about 6 percent of the world’s people
In this system, each letter represents a sound
Individual languages with at least 50 million speakers
Highly controversial theory that language families used to be combined.
7
What is a universalizing religion?
Usually localized and has a clustered distribution
Religion attempting to be global
Connected to nature
Largest amount of religious followers in the world
8
Which of the following characteristics best describes the role of the calendar in an ethnic religion?
Holidays are based on the prophets life events
Inanimate objects or natural events such
Holidays are based on the distinctive physical geography of the homeland
Multiple calendars are combined
9
Which of the following is the most practiced Buddhism in China, Japan, and Korea?
Mahayana
Theravada
Taoism
Vajrayana
10
Which location is dominated by a Sino-Tibetan language group?
Vietnam
Spain
China
Russia
11
What is a lingua franca?
A language mutually understood and used in trade by people.
Language used for banking in France
A fundamental element of local cultural identity
Symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words
12
Which of the following is an example of a prehistoric language superfamily?
Austro-Asiatic
Nostralic
Indo-European
Hungarian
13
Why do geographers need to understand religion?
Shows how people are changed by their environment
Shows the dialects that people use
Shows how migration of people and their religions changes locations.
Shows how people adjust their behavior for their religion
14
Why is geography important to ethnic religions?
Blends multiple religions
Spread through trade routes
A religion with principles based on physical characteristics of location.
Dependent on missionaries to connect to the environment
15
Which of the following is the best evidence of Quentin Atkinson's theory?
99% of world's population speak from 14 language families
More linguistic diversity outside of Africa
Differences in languages predate history
Languages are more complex and diverse in Africa
16
What is a dying language?
Languages from regions that have been conquered
Dominating institutional language
The only remaining fluent speakers are older people
Childbearing generation is not capable of teaching the language to children
17
Which of the following is an example of an ethnic religion?
Confucianism
Vajrayana
Protestant
Sunni
18
Which of the following is one of the four main followed religions?
Animism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Judaism
19
What is the difference between a dialect and language group?
One creates globalization
A dialect is the cause for migration
Embrace of multiple languages
Dialect is a variety of language
20
What is a gurdwara?
a series of ethical principles for the orderly conduct of daily life
The average Hindu with allegiance to a particular god or concept
The importance of studying nature to find one’s place in the world instead
Place of worship that houses the holiest book in the religion.
21
Which of the following best describes the Shiite branch of Islam?
They do not have a distinct geographic distribution
Comprise 88% of Muslims
Muslim populations have decreased in North America and Europe recently
Predominant branch in Iran
22
What is an endangered language?
Language that is spoken by young people
Language spoken by many
Language threatened with extinction
Languages that make up a small % of the worlds languages
23
Which of the following best describes Quentin Atkinson's theory of the origins of language?
Argued that all languages can be ultimately traced to Africa
The roots of the language tree
Languages joined together tens of thousands of years ago
14 languages used by 99% of all people

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