Geography 3.2 Quiz

The spreading of information, ideas, behaviors and other aspects of culture over wider areas is known as....

• culture hearth

• diffusion

• taboo

• dialects

The spread of a cultural trait by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them is known as...

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

The spread of cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration is called ______________.

• relocation diffusion

• expansion diffusion

• culture

• expansion dialect

________________ occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people.

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• contagious diffusion

____________ is the spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and importance.

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• contagious diffusion

___________ occurs when people in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process from another culture, but modify it because they reject one trait of it.

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• contagious diffusion

Faiths that claim applicability to all humans and that seek to transmit their beliefs through missionary work and conversion are called...

• universalizing religions

• ethnic religions

A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.

• universalizing religions

• ethnic religions

Christianity would be an example of a...

• universalizing religion

• ethnic religion

Which best describes the main difference between ethnicity and nationality?

• nationality is connected to a country while ethnicity is connected to culture

• nationality is connected to culture while ethnicity is connected to a state.

• nationality is connected to a language while ethnicity is connected to a religion

• nationality is connected to religion while ethnicity is connected to urban enclaves.