AP Human Geography: Culture and Language

Diffusion of popular customs can adversely impact environmental quality in two ways:

• using renewable materials and recycled designs.
• diversity of products and depletion of change.
• depletion of scarce resources and pollution.
• reducing demand for foreign products and promoting local crafts.

Dialects developed within England primarily because

• the Viking invaders did not remain long in England.
• different Germanic invaders settled in different regions.
• the Normans invaded from the south.
• British Received Pronunciation became the standard dialect.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

• habit
• character trait
• taboo
• custom

Which of the following will encompass the largest number of speakers?

• language group
• language family
• language branch
• dialect

Which of the following is not a Romance language? 

• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The oldest roots of the English language have been traced back to present-day 

• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Iceland

Complete the following analogy: Argentina is to Spanish as

• Brazil is to Portuguese.
• Guyana is to Spanish.
• Suriname is to French.
• Panama is to English.

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Complete the following analogy: southern Europe is to Romance as

• southwestern Europe is to Iberian.
• eastern Europe is to West Germanic.
• eastern Europe is to Balto-Slavic.
• southeast Europe is to Greek.

In both the Kurgan and Anatolian theories of Indo-European, the language family spread via __________ diffusion.

• contagious
• expansion
• hierarchical
• relocation

Globally, today’s predominant lingua franca is

• Swahili
• English
• Spanish