EL 5 Cultural Universals Practice Test

The landscape of the region, the natural resources it offers, and of course the rich history generated from the region.

• Geographic Setting

• Government

• Clothes

• Economics

A group’s spoken and written language, body language, sign language, and numbers systems

• Language & Communication

• Arts & Recreation

• Achievements

• Food & Shelter

a grouping based on similar social factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation

• Social Class

• Geographic Setting

• Leaders

• Government

an organized and integrated set of beliefs, behaviors, and norms centered on basic social needs and values

• Religion

• Wars

• Achievements

• Economics

The set of attitudes, beliefs, and rules which give order and meaning to a political process and which provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behavior in the culture

• Government

• Religion

• Geographic Setting

• Economics

How people interact with one another and their team members. It's how those in charge operate, communicate, and make decisions in all aspects of daily life

• Leaders

• Art & Recreation

• Government

• Economics

a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state

• Wars

• Food & Clothing

• Achievements

• Government

architectural styles, building materials, common meals

• Food & Shelter

• Clothing

• Education

• Religion

Ways of Dress

• Clothing

• Social Class

• Language & Communication

• Geographic Setting

formal and societal – i.e. passing cultural values, survival skills, and various types of training onto youth.

• education

• Wars

• Social Class

• Government