AP Human GEO: Unit 3 - Culture

This group is identified by lack of electrical lines, using buggies and horses.  They are 

• Ozark Natives
• Amish
• Ozark natives
• Scott Irish

Folk Culture is

• urban based
• influenced by technology and the media
• practiced by small, homogeneous group
• encourages a uniform landscape

List from smallest to largest.

• Cultural system, cultural complex, cultural trait
• Cultural trait, cultural system, cultural complex
• Cultural trait, cultural complex, cultural system
• Cultural complex, cultural trait, cultural system

The Industrial Revolution moved cultural hearths to 

• Latin America
• Europe and North America
• East Asia
• Southwest Asia

Popular Culture

• uses media for diffusion
• spreads by relocation diffusion
• is small and homogeneous
• focuses on diversity

Assimilation takes place when

• a culture moves with people during relocation diffusion
• a culture is totally absorbed by a dominant culture
• a culture shares traits with a larger culture
• two cultures have a "give and take" relationship

Environmental determinism generalizes a region's culture is shaped by

• access to waterways for transport
• the population's choice of staple food
• the dominance of the region
• the physical geography of the region

What is an example of relocation diffusion?

• wearing jeans
• listening to rap music
• a Mexican family moving to Australia
• watching a movie

Increasing worldwide use of the Internet, popularity of Hollywood movies and other English language media is called

• cultural globalization
• relocation diffusion
• contagious diffusion
• vernacular region 

Expelling and resettling culture groups by force is know as

• ethnic cleansing
• insugency
  insurgency
• chain migration
• relocation diffusion