AP Human Geography Unit 3 Exam

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Which of the following is the belief that one's own culture is the best or better than other cultures? Ethos, Prejudice, Ethnocentrism, Stereotyping, Acculturation

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Ethnocentrism

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Cultural landscape can be defined as

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the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

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An ethnic neighborhood is best described as which of the following? Options: An involuntary community where people with similar values reside, A rural community where people with similar backgrounds are required to live, A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside, An area in the inner city where certain groups are forced to live, A city neighborhood that is undergoing population change due to immigration

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A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside

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Cultural differences within a country's population, such as different religions, languages, and ethnicities, have political impacts and can best be described as

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centrifugal forces within a state

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A fundamental difference between folk and popular culture is that folk culture

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often sets a minority group apart from a region's general population

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The principal religion of Central and South America is

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Roman Catholicism

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Which of the following does NOT act as a centrifugal force for a state? Uneven development, Substate nationalism, Linguistic homogeneity, A fragmented territorial base, A strong tradition of local governance

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Linguistic homogeneity

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A good example of a monolingual country would be

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Japan

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Sometimes a diffusion process encounters barriers that slow or stop the spread of innovation. Which of the following is an example of such a barrier? a lack of infrastructure to support a new technology, a change in the price of energy, a jump from contagious to hierarchical diffusion, a transition from stimulus to contagious diffusion, a new form of media to broadcast information

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a lack of infrastructure to support a new technology

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The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990s is an example of

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hierarchical diffusion