Unit 3 AP Human Geography Vocab

What are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group?

• lingua franca

• culture

• ethnocentrist

• ethnicity

• ethnic neighborhood

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

• culture trait

• cultural relativism

• placemaking

• ethnicity

• traditional architecture

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

• culture

• cultural landscape

• architecture

• sequent occupancy

• indigenous community

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?

• architecture

• sense of place

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentrist

• centrifugal force

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

• ethnocentrist

• cultural landscape

• sequent occupancy

• linguistic

• placemaking

What is a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior?

• linguistic

• culture

• architecture

• cultural relativism

• cultural landscape

What is a local or regional variations of a languages or dialect?

• cultural landscape

• sequent occupancy

• linguistic

• indigenous community

• ethnic neighborhood

What is it when successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape?

• traditional architecture

• sequent occupancy

• culture

• ethnicity

• centripetal force

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

• architecture

• postmodern architecture

• architecture

• traditional architecture

• cultural relativism

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?

• postmodern architecture

• linguistic

• ethnic neighborhood

• traditional architecture

• architecture