AP Human Geo Unit 3 - Culture

Which of the following represents a possibilist interpretation of human activity?

• Shanghai developed into a world city because of its navigable rivers.

• Lesoto's economy has not developed to be globally competitive because of its lack of water access.

• Minnesota's people are usually quieter than Florida's because of the harsher weather people endure in Minnesota.

• Germany's success in gaining land early in World War II was linked to its use of coal deposits in the Ruhr region, which facilitated a more powerful military.

• Civilization was born in arable areas because fertile land created human innovation beyond nomadic lifestyles.

A formal caste system of socioeconomic segregation based on family and occupation was prominent in which country's tradition?

• Vietnam

• Russia

• India

• Saudi Arabia

• China

If a Spanish speaker and a French speaker come together to conduct trade and revert the authentic form of English they both learned in their schools, English is known to them as a(n)

• creolized language

• language branch

• isogloss

• pidgin language

• lingua franca

In the 1800s, Czar Peter the Great of Russia returned to Russia from his travels in Europe and taught his people Western-style dance. This diffusion of Western-style dance is closely an example of

• cultural convergence

• sequent occupance

• folk culture

• cultural isolation

• theocracy

Which of the following lists religions that all started in Southwest Asia?

• Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam

• Islam, Judaism, Christianity

• Shintoism, Sikhism, Judaism

• Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism

• Judaism, Animism, Buddhism

Which of the following is the dominant language family in India?

• Sino-Tibetan

• Dravidian

• Afro-Asiatic

• Indo-European

• Altaic

The above image comes from Beijing, China, ans is of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that bought out and replaced a local family's restaurant. Some might argue this is an example of

• language replacement

• creolized language

• cultural imperialism

• ethnic enclave

• ghettoization

A geographer studying the northern Canadian Inuit culture's intricate river navigation routes is best described as analyzing

• demography

• cultural ecology

• linguists

• territorial morphology

• boundary classification

In which of the following countries has conflict related to its multilingualism escalated to widespread threats of secession?

• United States

• Germany

• Japan

• Canada

• India

Which of the following is most closely an example of nonmaterial culture?

• Blue Jeans

• Indian naan bread

• Dome of the Rock

• Teachings of Confucianism

• New England saltbox house style