AP Human Geography: Culture

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

• Custom
• Popular Culture
• Habit
• Taboo

A repetitive act performed by an individual is a

• custom
• popular culture
• habit
• taboo

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also an example of

• punk culture
• popular culture
• folk culture
• white-collar culture

Folk cultures are spread primarily by

• contagious diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• relocation diffusion
• stimulus diffusion

When languages are depicted as leaves on trees, the trunk of the tree represents

• dialects

• language groups

• language families

• creolized languages

What branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong to?

• Germanic

• Romance

• Slavic

• Indo-Iranian

Why did Basque survive despite being surrounded by Indo-European languages?

• contagious diffusion

• isolation

• innovation

• distance decay

Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?

• Italian

• Portuguese

• Romanian

• Greek

This chart is evidence that English is a

• pidgin language

• official language

• dialect

• lingua franca

French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.

• pidgin language

• official language

• logograms

• isolated language