AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabulary

A particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period.

• Culture

• Ethnicity

• Toponym

• Gender

What is a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication?

• Culture trait

• Toponym

What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings?

• Creolization

• Architecture

What is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another?

• Cultural relativism

• Syncretism

What is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture?

• Linguistic

• Ethnocentrism

What is a landscape that is altered/changed by human activity?

• Cultural landscape

• Assimilation

What is something that is relating to language or linguistics?

• Ethnicity

• Linguistic

What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?

• Sequent occupancy

• Centrifugal Force

What is architecture characterised by the use of local materials and knowledge, usually without the supervision of professional architects?

• Postmodern Architecture

• Traditional architecture

What is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?

• Postmodern Architecture

• Traditional Architecture