Cultural Geography Review

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race

• Ethnicity

• Demography

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one group of people to another

• Cultural Diffusion

• Culture Hearth

A center where societies developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward

• Culture Hearth

• Demography

What is an ethnic religion?

• Religion that is always working to get more followers

• Religions that are contained to a common group where followers are usually born into the faith

Which of the following is not an example of a universalizing religion?

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Buddhism

Folk culture is best described as

• customs found in large societies

• traditions that rapidly move across countries

• destroying the uniform landscape

• customs that travel slowly and are often based in small rural areas

Popular culture often expands through

• migration or relocation diffusion

• the building of roads and internet technologies

• hierarchical diffusion

• adoption of electricity

Popular culture 

• spreads slowly from group to group
• spreads by relocation diffusion
• has a rural base
• takes place in a large, heterogeneous group

A regions culture being shaped by it's environment is called

• Environmental faction
• Dominant Environmental diffusion
• Environmental determinism
• Environmental contagion

Relocation diffusion is 

• listening to pop music
• a Syrian family moving to the US
• wearing jeans
• eating at McDonalds