AP Human Geography Chapter 4 Review

This group of people live in Pennsylvania and Ohio.  They don't use electricity and use horse and buggy.  They are

• Quakers
• Shakers
• Mennonites
• Amish

Hierarchical diffusion means that the culture is diffused 

• from place to place in a random way
• from those in authority or the famous
• because of popular culture
• from culture to culture

Folk culture is 

• heterogeneous and widespread
• homogeneous and small
• practiced in urban areas
• greatly influenced by the media

Cultural concepts from the smallest to the largest are 

• cultural trait, cultural complex, cultural system
• cultural complex, cultural trait, cultural system
• cultural trait, cultural system, cultural complex
• cultural system, cultural trait, cultural comples

In the 18th and 19th century cultural hearths moved to Europe and North America because of the 

• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• French Revolution
• American Revolution

Popular culture 

• spreads slowly from group to group
• spreads by relocation diffusion
• has a rural base
• takes place in a large, heterogeneous group

Assimilation takes place when

• a smaller culture shares traits with a larger culture
• a smaller culture is totally absorbed by a larger, more dominant culture
• cultures give and take
• culture moves with people in relocation diffusion

When people are assimilated in a culture they "assimilate" but hang on to this until the very end.  It is their

• religion
• dress
• diet
• language

Sharing of ideas or cultural across borders, like the US and Mexico is called

• Transculturation
• Assimilation
• Relocation diffusion
• migration diffusion

A regions culture being shaped by it's environment is called

• Environmental faction
• Dominant Environmental diffusion
• Environmental determinism
• Environmental contagion