Cycle 3 Vocab

The process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another

• demography

• cultural diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

• deforestation

A group that shares common cultural traits, such as language

• ethnicity

• renewable resource

• retail industry

• architecture

adopting new cultural practices, generally from a dominant culture group

• multiculturalism

• ethnicity

• assimilation

• service industry

An extreme devotion to a country characterized by a lack of questioning of state authority

• peninsula

• nationalism

• literacy

• non-renewable resource

A piece of land that is connected to a mainland and is surrounded on three sides by water

• multiculturalism

• assimilation

• state

• peninsula

The ability to read and write

• Columbian exchange

• transportation corridor

• literacy

• standard of living

A large man-made structure generally created for the public to remember an event or individual

• multiculturalism

• factors of production

• monumental architecture

• literacy

The practice of valuing and respecting differences in culture.

• multiculturalism

• assimilation

• demography

• manufacturing industry

refers to the wealth and purchasing power of a particular group

• monumental architecture

• standard of living

• demography

• multiculturalism

An area of land that includes lines of transportation, like railroads, highways, canals

• transportation corridor

• peninsula

• standard of living

• literacy