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Ap HUG Unit III Cultural Landscape
Ap HUG Unit III Cultural Landscape
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Reviews Cultural Landscape for an AP Human Geography course.
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The spread of ideas through the most connected places first is known as
stimulus diffusion
relocation diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
contagion diffusion
2
Centripetal is to ____, as Centrifugal is to____
come together; pull apart
race; ethnicity
ethnicity; race
pull apart; come together
3
What illustrates strength for continued folk culture of the Amish traditions?
relative isolationism
globalization
compression of time and space of ideas
uniform landscapes
4
Which doctrine claims that environmental conditions control cultural traits?
perceptual theory
environmental determinism
environmental perception
possibilism
5
What is language family?
European
Collection of many languages,all come from same first tongue
A branch of a language tree
creolization
6
Which of these statements about English is false?
It is an Indo-European language
It is a lingua franca
More native speakers than any other language
Spoken by more people than any other language
7
__________ is to glocalization as __________ is to
contagious
diffusion.
The cultural landscape, trade
macDonald's, instagram
The United States, mail service
McDonald's, Sushi
8
The spread of ideas from person to person or group to group is known as
stimulus
hearths
spaces
diffusion
9
ethnocentric views of Imperial powers likely resulted in __ for their colonal people
all are likely
Assimilation
endangerd languages
Acculturalization
10
The language spoken by the most people and distribution within the world
Spanish
Mandarin
English
Arabic
11
Placelessness can be influence by
sequence occupancy
A global Culture
distinct cultural landscape
Folk Culture
12
space-time convergence
The farther away people are, the less likely they are to migrate there
The phenomenon in which days appear longer during the summer
Near things are more related to distant things.
Shortened times for interaction because of improvements in technology
13
All of these are reasons why English is spoken around the world except
English colonists settled around the world - colonialism
increase in travel and social media
English is better than all other languages
English is a lingua Franca language
14
What are toponyms?
Spiritual Beliefs
Holy Journeys
Nomadic Lifestyles
Place Names
15
A SACRED PLACE for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jerusalem
Ur
Sumer
Istanbul
16
The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of
the extinction of the East Germanic language group
migration by German tribes
Iceland's close contact with other people and activities
Iceland's relative isolation from other places
17
Which process characterizes contagious diffusion?
through carriers to another location
from one society to another
from the most connected to the masses
widespread throughout a population
18
What is an endangered language?
A langauge that is extinct
permeable barrier language
A high density language, but small distribution
A language that contagiously diffused
19
A _______ is a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs.
terroir
taboo
material culture
custom
20
Social Diffusion characteristic of Spanish, French and British colonization
European colonizers supplanting their cultures religions and language
Crops from Americas changed commerce and European economies
Europeans benefited more from the their colonies than vice versa
A new transcultural writing was introduce to the world
21
A language of international economic language, such as English
creole
Lingua Franca
Isolated
Pidgin
22
What are the enduring elements of a culture that express values and beliefs?
cultural hearth
cultural beliefs
mentifacts
artifacts
23
What is animistic?
One god
Many gods
A belief in divine forces in nature
24
toponym name of Victoria falls in Zambia is most likely name Victoria because of
traditional taboos
indigenous culture
Imnperialism
local place name
25
The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers (regional density with an area) is
Cantonese
Hindi
Spanish
Mandarin
26
Which of these is a characteristic of folk culture?
very heterogeneous within the traditional society
Very popular and distributed over large areas
some what distict from the majority dominate cultural traits
food tied to glocalization cultural values
27
Cultural Landscape
The visible imprint of human activity and culture on a land.
The nature of an area.
Regional outbreak of a disease.
Bob Ross painting people.
28
What does glocalization mean?
conducting business to BOTH local and global considerations
conducting business according to global considerations
conducting business according to ethnocentric attitudes
conducting business according to local considerations
29
Syncretic religion that blended elements of Islam and Hinduism.
Sharia
Ulama
Sikhism
Sufism
30
Songs more likely to tell a story about life-cycle events or natural disasters? More environmental determinate
folk songs
material songs
cultural songs
popular songs
31
Cultural Hearth diffusion for rock n Roll music begin in?
USA
The Caribbean
France
Great Britain
32
Popular culture is more likely to be found in
developing communities
communities without internet connections
Developed areas
indigenous communities
33
What is a syncretic religion?
A religion solely based on nature.
A rival religion that completely disagrees with another religion.
A fusion of different religions.
A separate form of one religion.
34
Which modern trend is most directly responsible for space time compression?
fragmentation
globalization
democratization
regionalization
35
Most people in China speak a language from what
family
?
Indo-European
Bantu
Sino-Tibetan
Nilo-Saharan
36
What is the term for a material manifestation of a culture?
artifact
archetype
assimilation
agriculture
37
Convergence hypothesis
merging of similar cultures
two cultures amicably becoming one
cultural differences among places are reduced by interaction
a population's birth rate and death rate balancing out
38
What is the area from which a culture or cultural trait originates?
cultural aspect
cultural homeland
cultural region
cultural hearth
39
permeable barrier is mostly likely though as?
fast contagion diffusion
an absorbing barrier
no diffusion
super slow, weak diffusion
40
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of culture?
physical biological racial aspects
learned (mentifacts) morals
integrative (blended) customs
nonmaterial culture traits
41
What do popular clothing habits reflect?
national orgin and assimilation into a subculture
distributed and density of a common clothing trait
occupation types and ethnic cultual trait
traditions and family structure
42
Definition of sense of place
specific human and physical characteristics of a location
perceiving characteristics of place is different from other places
location of a place relative to surroundings & other places
characteristics at the immediate location
43
What is language group?
a branch of languages with recent same/similar style
A individual leaf on a language tree
A tree trunk on a language tree
Dissimilar languages
44
What are rules and expectations by which a society guides behaviors?
archetypes
taboos
behavioral diffusion
cultural attitude
45
The concept of placelessness is best described as...
The unique qualities of small towns.
the tendency for suburban landscapes to all look the same.
The defining elements of urban life
popular cultures diffusion stimulus applied modelization.
46
Which statement about universalizing religions is correct?
None of the above
Both of the above
A universalizing religion is usually easy to diffuse.
universalizing religion do seeks converts.
47
Ethinc religions like Hindu tend to diffuse through __ while Universalizing religions like Islam expand through ___
contagion; relocation
relocation; contagion
colonialism; hierarchy
relocation; hierarchy
48
Which is NOT a barrier to diffusion?
low interaction
Language
Mountains
Internet
49
Give an example of an endangered language, and isolated language.
None of them
Korean
Navajo
Arabic
50
The Cultural Hearth for Buddhism is?
Northern China
India
Middle East
Europe
51
Distance Decay suggests that
Technology has overcome distance as an impediment
Strength of interaction decreases with distance
The importance of distcance is lessening
Larger places have more interaction
52
Which of the following is NOT a Latin group "romance" language?
Italian
Danish
Potuguese
Rmanian
53
Which of the following describes the process of creolization?
exchange of crops and animals between the Old World and the New World
Spanish, Portuguese and indigenous cuisine to form Latin flavors
mix of Native Am, African and Euro influences to create new cultural forms
layering of the European cultural landscape over the Native Ameri landscape
54
A form of a language spoken in a local area -
dialect
language family
language group
language branch
55
What is a behavior practiced by a group to the point that it defines them?
cultural trait
universal custom
material culture
taboo
56
The largest language family is
Mandarin
Indo-European
Sino-TIbetan
Germanic
57
Which language might be the next lingua franca?
French
Mandarin Chinese
Spanish
Arabic
58
Ethnocentric is.....
A viewpoint that judeges other cultures based on their own
A movie
Accepting other cultures into your own
a type of food
59
True or False: A language family is bigger than a language group
True
Frue
False
only if the TFR is below 2
60
What occurs when one culture adopts & blends cultural of another &
loses
many traditional distinctive traits
assimilation
syncretism
trans-culturalization
cultural imperialism
