Chapter 4 Test Review

Religion is not considered part of culture because beliefs vary in different parts of the world.

• True

• False

All five of the early culture hearths, or centers where culture developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward, were located near a major river or source of water.

• True

• False

Trade, migration, and war are all factors that encourage cultural change.

• True

• False

The information Revolution has slowed cultural change because people around the world are exposed to ideas and traditions from around the world.

• True

• False

Geographers and historians study culture hearths because they are centers where the world's first civilizations arose.

• True

• False

Geographers divide the world into ________________, which are areas in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and values.

• ethnicities

• nationalities

• culture hearths

• culture regions

Afro Asiatic, Dravidian, and Indo-European are examples of

• geographic associations

• language families

• ethnic groups

• climate Regions

The enslavement of Africans who were then shipped to the Americas is an example of cultural change being caused by forced

• assimilation

• migration

• labor

• diffusion

The period in the 1700s and 1800s during which many countries experienced rapid cultural change as they developed power-driven machines and factories to mass-produce goods is known as the

• Communist Revolution

• Information Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

What is the term for a group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, custom, or place of origin

• ethnic group

• language family

• culture region

• ethnic enclave