Semester Exam Review - Culture

Which group contains areas all classified as cultural regions?

• Southwest Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Mississippi Delta

• Longhorn Nation, St. Lawrence River, rain forests

• The Middle East, Latin America, French-Speaking Canada

• East Asia, the Rust Belt, the Amazon Basin

The Middle East and North Africa are characterized by populations that –

• Share a common religion and language.

• Work primarily in small cottage industries.

• Are politically stable and polytheistic.

• Organize their society around a King and Queen.

Which would be considered an action influenced by culture?

• The Communist government of the Soviet Union forced farmers off their land.

• The Amish of North America continue to use horse and wagon as transportation today.

• People from Central and South America continue to immigrate to the US.

• Heavy flooding forced people to move away from the New Orleans area.

The fact that the official language of Quebec, Canada is French while the rest of Canada speaks English makes Quebec a unique –

• Physical region.

• Cultural region.

• Perceptual region.

• Functional region.

Why is culture like an iceberg?

• Only certain aspects of culture are easily identifiable.

• Culture exists only in certain parts of the world.

• Culture easily falls apart.

• Culture is made up of only one element.

Which of the following is true about San Antonio’s culture?

• San Antonio’s culture has been impacted by its relative location to an international border.

• San Antonio’s culture has had relatively few influences.

• San Antonio’s culture has been impacted by its geographic isolation.

• San Antonio’s culture has been impacted by the city’s young age.

Which of the following groups of factors are most influential in shaping a region’s culture?

• climate zones, earth-sun relationship, personal habits

• language, institutions, and religion

• population density, movement, and elevation

• city size, tectonic activity, and average rainfall

If you wanted to travel through a region with many cultural similarities to North America as well as numerous languages located near each other you would travel to –

• the Middle East.

• East Asia.

• Europe.

• Russia and Central Asia.

If you wanted to travel between countless islands that all share a similar cultural background and end your journey on an island continent populated with predominantly English speakers you would travel through –

• Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

• South America.

• Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Australia and Oceania.

Which of the following best describes cultural regions?

• Cultural regions are rigidly structured and unchanging.

• Cultural regions can be defined in a variety of ways.

• Cultural regions closely follow the boundaries of functional regions.

• Cultural regions have no defining characteristics.