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