AP Human Geography Topic 3 Culture

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

Which is NOT part of material culture?

• Language

• Food

• Clothing

• Shelter

Quick and widespread diffusion like a disease is known as

• Stimulus diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusoin

• Relocation diffusion

• Contagious diffusion

The combination of a place's cultural, economic, and physical features is known as its

• formal region

• cultural landscape

• uniform landscape

• place definition

Which of the following is true of popular culture?

• It is practiced among one group in the world.
• It is practiced less than folk culture
• It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion
• It diffuses quickly to other places

I can find most of the Shiite Muslims....

• Iran
• Egypt
• Saudi Arabia
• Iran

Assimilation can be defined as

• when one becomes more like the dominant culture.
• when a person refuses to learn the dominant culture
• when a culture is practice all over the world
• when a culture is similar to another culture

The definition of ethnocentrism is...

• When a person cannot identify with any ethnicity
• when a person chooses another ethnicity over their own
• when an ethnicity judges another ethnicity based on the standards of their culture
• when a culture goes extinct

Popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit

• Cultural assimilation

• Cultural imperialism

• Cultural syncretism

• Cultural appropriation

An example of hierarchical diffusion

• Migrant bringing their food culture to the US

• McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef

• A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend

• Finding out about a new song from your cousin