What are the three branches within Christianity?

Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox

A Common language shared by people who do not share a native language.

What is Folk Culture?

Folk Culture is practiced by small groups, usually isolated

A polytheistic religion refers to

Belief in or devotion to multiple deities

What are two environmental concerns of popular culture?

Pollution of the landscape and depletion of scares resources

What is Assimilation?

The process of losing one culture and taking on another.

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1
“Little Havana,” “Chinatown” and “Little Saigon” are all examples of which of the following?
ethnic landscapes
ethnic neighborhoods
ethnic cleansing
ethnonationalism
2
What type of religion would this site be associated with.
Ethnic
Universilizing
3
This Christian church is one of three important religious sites in Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Wailing (Western) Wall
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
4
What religion is NOT known to have strong food taboos?
Islam
Hindu
Judaism
Buddhism
5
What religion produced this cultural landscape?
Sikhism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
6
What type of religion includes sacred places / holidays tied to the life of a founder?
Ethnic
Universalizing
7
The wall in the picture is important to what religion?
Christianity
Bahai
Judaism
Islam
8
Which universalizing religion has the most clustered pattern of distribution?
Islam
Baha'i
Sikhism
Christianity
9
This Muslim mosque is one of three important religious sites in Jerusalem.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Wailing Wall (Western Wall)
Dome of the Rock
10
What are the three branches within Christianity?
Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox
Renewalism, Traditionalism, Protestant
Jainism, Catholic, Sikhism
Eastern Orthodox, Islam, Fundamentalism
11
What religion produced this cultural landscape?
Shintoism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Buddhism
12
Prohibiting prayer in public schools is an example of which of the following?
Secularization
Traditionalism
Sharia Law
Fundamentalism
13
Folk culture is transmitted through
Expansion Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
14
The Elvish languages featured in the The Lord of the Rings would be an example of an
Universal language
Lingua Franca
Artificial language
Natural language
15
What religion is most asscoiated with this structure?
Christianity
Hindusim
Islam
Judaism
16
What religion produced this cultural landscape?
Islam
Zoroastrianism
Christianity
Hinduism
17
A system of communication based on symbols that have agreed-upon meanings is known as:
mutual intelligibility
lingua franca
language
dialect
18
The rise of _______transformed the distribution of the world’s languages and language families.
Feudalism
Globalization
Agriculture
Royalty
19
movement that encourages scientific thought, the expansion of knowledge, & belief in progress
Religious fundamentalism
Modernism
Globalization
Secularization
20
Which is the only country in which the majority of the population is Jewish?
Israel
Pakistan
Egypt
United States
21
What are distinctive regional differences in grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary called?
lingua franca
pidgin languages
dialects
cultural norms
22
Lingua Franca is...
A common language shared among British and Australian people.
A language spoken by French people.
referring to members of a global world that do not share a common language.
A Common language shared by people who do not share a native language.
23
Why did pilgrims travel to religious sites?
to escape boredom
to earn money
to see new areas
to show their devotion to God
24
n accurate example of a Pidgin language is
English
French
Spanglish
German
25
The belief that spirits or deities can be associated with natural features, like rocks & trees
Monotheistic
Animistic
Polytheistic
Atheistic
26
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?
Sikhism
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
27
Which of the following would NOT be an element of a religious cultural landscape?
a cathedral
the Quran
a mosque
a temple
28
Which religion is the best example of an ethnic religion?
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
29
Scholars think that the Indo-European language family may have originated in a region in
Turkey
England
Greece
Israel
30
What religion can be found throughout East Asia, mixed with elements of Shintoism & Taoism?
Hinduism
Confucianism
Zoroastrianism
Buddhism
31
The graphic below shows the distribution of what major world religion c. 1500 CE?
Christianity
Buddhism
Islam
Hinduism
32
A language that develops from a pidgin language and is taught as a first language is
Creole
Natural language
Lingua franca
Toponym
33
What is Folk Culture?
Folk Culture is passed down from generation, to generation
Folk Culture is spread by social media
Folk Culture is the creation of made up stories
Folk Culture is practiced by small groups, usually isolated
34
A polytheistic religion refers to
Belief that there is no deity
Belief in or devotion to multiple deities
A belief in or devotion to a single deity
The scattering of a people through forced migration
35
you notice that many businesses have “kosher” and the Star of David. What can you determine?
a large Hindu population
a large Christian population
a large Jewish population
a large Islamic population
36
Christianity is the largest religion in the world with an estimated number of followers being
2.3 billion
4.5 billion
40 million
100 million
37
Shiites make up a majority of the population in which country:
China
Iran
India
United States
38
Languages that have emerged and evolved within living or historic human communities are called
Lingua Franca
Natural languages
Universal languages
Artificial languages
39
Which of the following language families is dominant in the Americas?
Indo-European languages
Native American languages
Sino-Tibetan languages
Austronesian languages
40
A place or region where an innovation, idea, belief, or cultural practice begins is a
Hearth
Physical landscape
Nodal Region
Family tree
41
What are two environmental concerns of popular culture?
Pollution of the landscape and depletion of scares resources
Recycling options and depletion of natural gas
Uniform landscapes and gwaking tourists
loss of traditional values and pollution
42
The fastest growing religion in the world is
Islam
Hinduism
Christianity
Buddhism
43
A pilgrimage to Mecca is an important religious duty.
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
44
Which of the following is an example of a syncretic religion?
Buddhism
Sikhism
Sunni Islam
Christianity
45
In a region dominated by Christianity, which building would likely be found on the landscape
synagogue
shrine
mosque
church
46
This map shows the distribution of what religion?
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Judaism
47
The spread of the flu is an example of what type of diffusion?
migration
contagious
stimulus
non-hierarchical
48
Which of the following is the BEST example of a culture hearth?
the origin area of a religion
a shopping mall
an isolated region
the confluence of two rivers
49
What is Assimilation?
The process of killing off a better culture.
The process of losing one culture and taking on another.
The process of rejecting another culture.
The process of accepting and working with another culture.
50
A pidgin language
has no native speakers
cannot exist for more than a generation
is spread by folk culture
cannot exist without globalization
51
In what way do the people of Quebec differ from those in other Canadian provinces?
they travel to the United States for work
they are not Christian
they are recent immigrants
they speak French
52
In North America which of the following religions is most prevalent?
Buddhism
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
53
The spatial expression of popular culture can be seen in the
Uniform landscapes
Popular landcapes
Traditional landscapes
Environmental landscape
54
A polytheistic religion refers to
Belief in or devotion to multiple deities
A belief in or devotion to a single deity
Belief that there is no deity
The scattering of a people through forced migration
55
The world's largest universalizing religion in amount of followers is
Hinduism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
56
An official language is one that
Can never be changed or altered
Is spoken all over the world
formally used in: political, legal, & administrative affairs
Is only spoken by citizens in the United States
57
One significant impact of popular culture is to
create a more varied and less uniform landscape
spread through relocation diffusion
promote the diffusion of folk culture
modify the physical environment
58
Almost half of the world’s people speak languages belonging to the ____________Language family.
Trans-New Guinea
Sino-Tibetan
Austronesian
Indo-European
59
This strucutre is most associated with what religion?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Buddhism
60
What region of the world is home to the Ganges River, the holiest body of water for Hindus?
South America
North America
East Asia
South Asia
61
Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?
Judaism
Sikhism
Christianity
Islam
62
Where is the hearth of the three monotheistic world religions?
Middle East (Semitic Hearth)
Southeast Asia
the Pacific Rim
North America
63
These strucutres are most asscoiated with what religion?
Christianity
Bahai
Buddhism
Hinduism
64
Shinto and Shamanism are similar because
they are religions that emphasize spirits in nature
they mean the same thing
they believe in the same god
they originated in Japan
65
The smallest of the major universalizing religions is
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
Sikhism
66
One of the goals of the movement ___ was to create a religious and political homeland for Jews:
Secularization
Modernism
Zionism
Religious fundamentalism
67
The YELLOW graphic below shows the distribution of what major world religion c. 1500 CE?
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
68
What religion produced this cultural landscape?
Jainism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Buddhism
69
Which of the following pairs of religions have their hearth in modern-day India?
Hinduism and Buddhism
Islam and Buddhism
Christianity and Judaism
Judaism and Hinduism
70
A language family is
A region where innovation begins
collection of languages that share common, distant ancestor
A group of languages that have similar sounds
Traced through extensive and accurate written documents
71
Some languages are so similar that they have a high degree of
sign language
mutual intelligibility
dialect
body language
72
Christianity is the largest religion in the world with an estimated number of followers being
100 million
40 million
4.5 billion
2.3 billion
73
A situation in which one language becomes comparatively more powerful than another language is
Lingua franca
Official language
Universalizing language
Linguistic dominance
74
What type of religion generally displays a more dispersed pattern of distribution?
Ethnic
Universalizing
75
Which religion is the best example of an ethnic religion?
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
Buddhism
76
Of the countries listed, which of the following has the highest LDI?
Brazil
Malaysia
Australia
Papua New Guinea
77
Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism are all...
Animistic religions
Universalizing Religions
Monotheistic Religions
Ethnic Religions
78
A creole language is?
Mix of two languages
The official language of a country
Mix of two languages that becomes first language
Language only used for trade
79
This Jewish holy site is one of three important religious sites in Jerusalem.
Dome of the Rock
Wailing Wall (Western Wall)
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
80
What religion produced this cultural landscape?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Taoism
81
Which of the following is not one of the 5 pillars of Islam?
Professing belief in Brahman as the divine creator
Praying 5 times daily
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Charity
82
a creolized language is
extinct
a mix of indigenous and colonial languages
an isolated language family
a revived formerly extinct language
83
The fastest growing religion in the world is
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
84
sign languages are based on
dialects
body movements
mutual intelligibility
street signs
85
The belief in no deity defines which of the following terms?
Atheistic
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
Animistic
86
This symbol is asscoiated with what religion.
Taoism
Shintoism
Buddhism
Confucianism
87
Islam became a prominent religion in India because of
an invasion by the Persians
trade with Africa
the rule of the Mughals
alliances with Southwest Asia
88
What is a Pidgin language?
An official language formed from two languages
A language that is used for trade and commerce
A simplified language used for communication between people
The most common language spoken in an area
89
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not only ones in a certain location
Ethnic Religion
Universalizing Religion
Hierarchal Religion
Autonomous Religion
90
What type of religion generally displays more reverence for nature?
Universalizing
Ethnic
91
Acculturation is...
the trend towards Americanization
The absorption of a minority group by a dominant majority
When a minority group adopts some of the traits of the majority group.
The integration of diverse populations by the majority
92
What religion is represented by this symbol?
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
93
What is the term for the spread of people, ideas, practices and goods?
hearth
culture
globalization
diffusion
94
The world's largest ethnic religion in amount of followers is
Judaism
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
95
What religion is represented by this symbol?
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
96
Which of the following lingua francas is the global lingua franca?
English
Swahili
Russian
Hausa
97
The term for religion w/ a concentrated spatial distribution & often is based on area it exists
Universalizing Religion
Ethnic Cleansing
Folk Culture
Ethnic Religion
98
Which religion replaces the question mark in the diagram?
Judaism
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
99
Which religion built this structure?
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Buddhism
100
A pidgin language
has no native speakers
is spread by folk culture
cannot exist without globalization
cannot exist for more than a generation

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