Contact Between Cultures

Classification of people based on physical or biological characteristics:

• Culture
• Ethnicity
• Nationality
• Race

A classification of people based on national origin and/or culture:

• Acculturation
• Cultural Assimilation
• Ethnicity
• Ethnocentric

The learning of the beliefs of a dominant culture and assuming some of the characteristics:

• Cultural assimilation
• Acculturation
• Prejudice
• Stereotype 

The absorption of a culturally distinct group into a dominant or prevailing culture:

• Acculturation
• Cultural Assimilation
• Assimilation
• Prejudice 

Cultural diversity is?

• Having a variety of cultures in one area
• A region with a specific culture
• Having one culture 
• Having your own opinions about everything

The visible features of an area of land as modified by humans showing the imprint of a cultural group

• Cultural Hearth
• Cultural Trait
• Cultural Diffusion
• Cultural Landscape

A shift that may occur within a culture, usually as a result of outside influences

• Cultural Diffusion
• Cultural Trait
• Cultural Change
• Cultural Landscape

The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another

• Cultural Diffusion
• Nomadic
• Cultural Change
• Migration

When geographers group places together because they are culturally similar 

• Culture Traits 
• Culture 
• Culture Region 

America has food from

• one country
• many different cultures
• two countries