World Geography Chapter 4 Test The Human World

Religion is not considered part of culture because beliefs vary in different parts of the world.

• True

• False

All five of the early culture hearths, or centers where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward, were located near a major river or source of water.

• True

• False

Trade, migration, and war are all factors that encourage cultural change.

• True

• False

The Information Revolution has slowed cultural change because people around the world are exposed to ideas and traditions from around the world.

• True

• False

Geographers and historians study culture hearths because they are the centers where the world’s first civilizations arose.

• True

• False

Geographers divide the world into ____________________, which are areas in which people share a similar way of life, including language, religion, economic systems, and values.

• ethnicities

• culture hearths

• nationalities

• culture regions

Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, and Indo-European are examples of

• geographic associations.

• language families.

• ethnic groups.

• climate regions.

The enslavement of Africans who were then shipped to the Americas is an example of cultural change being caused by forced

• assimilation.

• migration.

• labor.

• diffusion.

The period in the 1700s and 1800s during which many countries experienced rapid cultural change as they developed power-driven machines and factories to mass-produce goods is known as the

• Communist Revolution.

• Information Revolution.

• Industrial Revolution.

• Agricultural Revolution.

What is the term for a group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin?

• ethnic group

• language family

• culture region

• ethnic enclave