APHG Unit 3 - Culture

Cultural landscape can be defined as

• the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region

• the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

• a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities

• the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• Built environment

• Physical environment

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural ecology

The spread of specialty coffee shops as a luxury item, like Starbucks, across the United States in the 1990s is an example of

• expansion diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• stimulus diffusion

• relocation diffusion

Ethnicity is associated with _____ ancestry, while race is associated with _____ ancestry. 

• cultural: biological 
• biological: cultural 
• cultural: religious 
• religious: cultural 

Folk cultures are typically associated with _____ groups of people in __________.

• homogeneous : isolated areas 
• heterogeneous : isolated areas 
• homogeneous : large societies 
• heterogeneous: large societies 

Which of the following is an element of material culture?

• clothing 
• behavioral norms 
• religious beliefs 
• family beliefs 

The popularity of American bands in Europe is an example of:

• globalization of culture 
• assimilation 
• ethnocentrism 
• transculturation 

In the face of globalization, folk cultures face _____ challenges

• sustainability 
• ethnocentrism 
• geographic 
• relativism 

In terms of diffusion, what is a hearth?

• The point of origin
• The final destination
• The mid-way point
• All points along the diffusion route

The clearest example of a folk culture today in the US is

• Hispanics in southwest Florida
• Catholics in the northeast U.S.
• Harlem in New York City
• Amish of southeast Pennsylvania