APHG Unit 3 - Culture

Which of the following countries has the largest percentage of Roman Catholics?

• United States

• Great Britain

• Indonesia

• Brazil

Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?

• A coral reef

• A stand of pine trees

• Terraced fields of crops up a mountainside

• Glaciers

Which of the following is a dialect?

• Indo-European

• Romance

• Southern United States

• Latin

Compared to popular culture, folk culture is

• More limited in their building materials by the resources available in the environment

• Less likely to promote religious values

• Less resistant to cultural change

• More likely to tolerate a variety of social customs and behaviors

The type of culture that includes a wide range of artifacts (e.g. clothing, art, structures) is called

• Popular culture

• Material culture

• Folk culture

• Cultural reigon

Isoglosses are used to mark

• Creation of pidgins

• Extent to which a lingua franca is used in a certain area

• Limits for an area in which certain words or other language features are used

• Area in which an extinct language is used

Which of the following schools of thought most emphasizes the importance of the physical environment in shaping cultures?

• Possibilism

• Cultural ecology

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural determinism

Acculturation is a process whereby

• A more dominant culture adopts most of the traits of the less dominant culture

• The dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one

• Cultural traits are equally exchanged between cultures

• The less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one

Which language has become the world's primary lingua franca?

• Mandarin

• Hindi

• German

• English

Which of the following is the best example of a folk food?

• Hamburgers in the US

• Pizza in the US

• KFC in China

• Blowfish in Japan