3.6 / Unit 3

What is the friction of distance?

• Things remain the same over distance and time

• As a cultural trait diffused, the people who adopt it, might alter it.

• Distance causes cultures to be physically separate but maintain similar cultural traits

Answer explanation

As a cultural trait diffuses, the people who adopt it might alter it - think of the game telephone. Things change over distance and time.

A Hindu temple located in Texas is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?

• Expansion

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Relocation

• Stimulus

This structure is most likely associated with

• Islam
• Christianity
• Buddhism
• Hinduism

Which of the following terms best describes the geographical boundary of one particular linguistic feature?

• Language Border

• Toponym

• Choropleth interval

• Linguistic hearth

• Isogloss

A minaret is an architectural feature common to places of worship in which of the following regions?

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

An immigrant who selectively adopts certain customs of the dominant host society in order to advance socioeconomically, while still retaining much of his or her native customs, practices, and beliefs, best illustrates the concept of...

• Acculturation

• Maladaptive behavior

• Assimilation

• Ethnocentrism

• All of the above

What type of building is this?

• Jewish synagogue
• Islamic mosque
• Catholic cathedral
• Buddhist temple

A dialect is best classified as which of the following?

• Cultural complex

• Cultural trait

• Language branch

• Language group

• Language family

Centrifugal Forces are what?

• The DIFFERNCES that exist in people.. Religion, politics, language, ethnicity

• The forces that shape the earth

• The SIMILARITIES that exist in people.. Religion, politics, language, ethnicity

• The forces that shape culture

Historically due to ---- and ----, closer groups of people were more --- than groups that were --- from each other.

• Distance decay and cultural landscape; different; alike

• Friction of distance; distance decay;

  alike;further

• Globalization; friction of distance

  similar; different

Answer explanation

Historically, because of distance decay, the interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases.- and friction of distance, groups that were situated closer together were more alike compared to groups that are further apart.