The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to:

Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations.

Little wine is produced in Asia primarily because...

The people do not have a tradition of wine making.

Who were the Kurgans?

Herders from the steppes of Central Asia.

Early settlers of North America used sod and wood for their houses. This suggests that building materials:

Are strongly influenced by local resources.

The global diffusion of pop culture may threaten folk culture by:

Being less responsive to the diversity of local environments.

When people who speak a given language migrate to a new location & become isolated from other members of their group:

Change of 1 language into dialects followed by 2 distinct languages.

Why has English achieved unprecedented acceptance globally?

The role it has taken as the common language of a global economy & culture.

Hip Hop Music demonstrates an interplay between globalization and local diversity because...

Artists may be widely popular yet still make local references in songs.

Which concept is the contemporary geographer likely to reject?

The physical environment causes people to adopt social customs.

The sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item.

Which of the following is the BEST example of a literary tradition?

Historical documents of the Ancient Maya destroyed by Spanish conquerors.

By analyzing the distribution of folk culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that...

Several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins.

The distribution of the subjects of art in the Himilayas shows how folk cultures:

Are influenced by distinctive vegetation, climate, and religion.

What is the main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group?

How recently in time the languages were once the same

What does the survival of any language rely on MOST?

The political and military strength of its speakers.

A boundary between language regions.

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1
From which present-day country could the first speakers of the language that evolved into English be found?
Switzerland
France
Denmark
Italy
2
The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to:
Stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world.
Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations.
Have little effect on the diffusion of social customs.
Preserve folk cultures, by increasing ware of their uniqueness.
3
What is considered to be the most important language family in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Nilo-Saharan
Niger-Congo
Khoisan
Afro-Asiatic
4
Little wine is produced in Asia primarily because...
Grapes do not grow in these regions.
Soil contaminants produce bad grapes.
Religious taboos discourage consumption.
The people do not have a tradition of wine making.
5
An important source area for U.S. folk house types is in the....
Southwest
Upper New York highland
Northeast
Lower Chesapeake
6
Who were the Kurgans?
Farmers who preserved Basque in present-day Spain.
Germanic tribe that invaded England.
Herders from the steppes of Central Asia.
Soldiers who conquered East Asia several thousand years ago.
7
Early settlers of North America used sod and wood for their houses. This suggests that building materials:
Are a uniform feature of folk culture.
Are commonly imported over long distances because of local folk culture.
Are strongly influenced by local resources.
Are chosen because of the diffusion of popular culture.
8
The global diffusion of pop culture may threaten folk culture by:
The growing adoption of popular culture trends by folk cultures.
Being less responsive to the diversity of local environments.
Being more responsive to the diversity of local environments.
Threatening local environments through the diffusion of info by technology.
9
When people who speak a given language migrate to a new location & become isolated from other members of their group:
Change of 1 language into dialects followed by 2 distinct languages.
They lose their linguistic abilities.
Their language usually shows very little change over time.
Groups form multiple dialects.
10
Why has English achieved unprecedented acceptance globally?
The refusal to use English in colonial & imperial expansion.
The diffusion of religion from LDCs to MDCs.
The role it has taken as the common language of a global economy & culture.
The rise of folk culture & decline of pop culture.
11
Jeans are a good example of material culture adopted by a number of socieites. They are also an example of...
Popular Culture
White-Collar Culture
American Culture
Folk Culture
12
Hip Hop Music demonstrates an interplay between globalization and local diversity because...
Artists may be widely popular yet still make local references in songs.
Some lyrics can't be transmitted over the radio & television.
Hip Hop music is played in many Islamic countries.
It is a form of folk culture responsible for globalization of modern music.
13
Which of the following language families encompasses the languages of the People's Republic of China?
Mandarin
Indo-European
Austro-Asiatic
Sino-Tibetan
14
Hebrew is an example of a(n):
Extinct Language
Revived Language
Isolated Language
Language Family
15
The American custom of __________________ would probably be seen as a taboo in global folk culture.
Talking with your mouth full of food.
Driving on the right side of the road.
Eating meals as a family.
Handshakes
16
Which concept is the contemporary geographer likely to reject?
People are influenced by their physical environment.
People in different environments adopt similar social customs.
The physical environment causes people to adopt social customs.
Local resources make some cultural choices more likely than others.
17
The English language is a "second" or "third" language in many regions where it is used as a(n)...
Lingua Franca
Expansion Diffusion
Indo-European import
Global Lingua
18
Terroir refers to:
The sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item.
The relationship between the physical environment & culture.
A group's sense of place.
A group's food taboos.
19
Which of the following is the BEST example of a literary tradition?
The variety of dialects in a language used in obscure examples of poetry.
The oral traditions of Australia's Aborigines which were passed down.
Historical documents of the Ancient Maya destroyed by Spanish conquerors.
The diffusion of television and radio broadcasts.
20
By analyzing the distribution of folk culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that...
Folk culture can only be transmitted orally across time & location.
Folk culture would not exist without small scale and location migration.
Several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins.
folk culture does not diffuse through relocation diffusion.
21
The distribution of the subjects of art in the Himilayas shows how folk cultures:
Typicaly paint scenes of nature but not people.
Are influenced by distinctive vegetation, climate, and religion.
Always include paintings of religious subjects.
Abandon customary forms as they engage in migration
22
What is the main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group?
How recently in time the languages were once the same
How similar the cultures of the speakers of each language are.
How closely the speakers of each language live to one another.
How they correspond to the diffusion of free markets across the world.
23
What does the survival of any language rely on MOST?
The spread of its' speakers material culture.
The political and military strength of its speakers.
The efficient "corrections" of the global free market.
Rapid migration into other areas.
24
Basque is a good example of a(n)...
Isolated Language
Lingua Franca
Globalizing Language
Language Group
25
What is an Isogloss?
A collection of unique words.
A boundary between language regions.
A line that separates literary traditions.
A blending of two language families.

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