Culture Review: AP Human Geography

Buddhists trace origin back to

The three major universalizing religions are ..

The spread of ideas from person to person or group to group is known as

The biological differences between males and females.

Which is an example of uniform landscapes or placelessness?

A division of a religious branch with small differences in practices and beliefs.

Which religion is widespread in North Africa?

The tangible objects produced by a culture (dance, food, clothing, etc.)

Belief that objects such a plants and stones have a spirit and conscious life.

Popular Culture usually spreads through ________________ diffusion.

What type of religion is Hinduism?

When integration of immigrants into the economic and cultural mainstream of society is complete

The belief that there is no higher being.

The effort to rid an area of everyone of a particular ethinicity.

The Caste System is a relic of which religion?

What do we call the area from which a cultural trait or custom originates?

Hinduism is most widely practiced in which nation?

Which of the following is NOT a monotheistic religion?

This religion traces its origins and many of its practices to Hinduism.

Where do most Jews live in the world?

What is the dominant branch of Islam? 

What are the three main branches of Christianity?

A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

Popular culture is more likely to vary from

An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two languages usually for trade purposes.

The idea that a person's soul moves upward or downward based on their behavior in this life is

Language family from which English is derived

Which religion does NOT claim Jerusalem as its holy place?

The two largest language families

A collection of sounds understood by a group to have the same meaning

In which religion do adherents make a hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca?

Ancient greek religion would an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is an ethnic religion?

A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

Which religion was the first major monotheistic religion?

A language that is legally adopted by the government for its proceedings and documents.

True or False: All three universalizing religions originated in Asia

Language that is informally adopted and widely used by the masses

Which religion is the most widespread in the world?

A _________ is a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs.

A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe is known as

A religion that seeks global appeal all types of people and attempt to convert others

Languages that are unrelated to all others and are not attached to any language family

A religion that combines several different religious traditions.

Which religion developed most recently?

Legal Segregation of South Africa until the 1990s was known as...

Which part of the United States is known as the Bible Belt?

This results from the habit of evaluating other cultures against the standards one one's own.

Small isolated groups of homogeneous people, that change very little over time practice 

A premediated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group

A language mutually understood and used in international trade (Swahili, Mandarin, English)