APHG Chapter 4

The alignment of ancient Chinese cities toward the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) best illustrates the importance of which of the following factors in the shaping of these early cities?

• Belief systems

• Topography

•  Economics

• Gender

• Technology

The state of California, often considered a hearth of environmental laws, will be the first state to ban plastic straws. Which of the following statements best describes the likely spread of this environmental practice?

• This practice will likely spread via hierarchical diffusion when the president of the United States signs an executive order banning plastic straws in all states.

• This practice will likely spread via social media and stimulus diffusion when other states enact identical laws banning plastic straws.

• As regional news organizations report on the ban, this practice will likely spread through contagious diffusion only to western states adjacent to California.

• Strong lobbying by the plastics industry will likely curtail the diffusion of the ban, and this practice will be limited to California.

• Similar environmental laws will likely spread through stimulus diffusion to other states via political activism.

Which of the following best explains how Christianity became the dominant religion in the Philippines?

• Christianity was brought to the Philippines through relocation diffusion when the Spanish colonized the Philippines in the sixteenth century.

• Christianity entered the Philippines through the ministry of representatives from the Russian Orthodox church.

  Christianity entered the Philippines through the ministry of representatives from the Russian Orthodox church.

• A secondary hearth for Christianity arose in the Philippines in the twelfth century, and since that time Christianity has remained the dominant religion in the Philippines.

• Christianity entered the Philippines through contagious diffusion because of its proximity to Indonesia.

• Export-oriented logging companies from Japan brought Christianity to the Philippines during the twentieth century.

Cultural landscape can be defined as

• the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region

• the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

  the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

• the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

•  the diversity of distinctive cultures within a particular geographic area

• a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities

Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• Cultural ecology

• Nonmaterial culture

• Environmental determinism

• Physical environment

• Built environment

Which of the following scenarios best exemplifies the concept of hierarchical diffusion?

• The migration of asylum seekers from Syria to Europe

• The increasing popularity of Korean pop music around the world because of social media

• The increasing sales of clothing brands endorsed by professional athletes to customers in Europe

• The practice of selling pizza by the slice in America, whereas pizzas in Italy were traditionally sold as whole pies

• The addition of hands-free driving features to cars manufactured by companies headquartered throughout the world

A fashion trend that diffuses from big cities to smaller cities is-

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Contagious Diffusion

• Migration

• Diffusion

True or False: Traditional Cultures are normally the isolated minority group in a culture

• True

• False

Soccer spreading throughout the world due to British colonization is _______ diffusion

• Expansion

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

• Relocation

The birthplace of a civilization is its-

• Cultural Hearth

• Agricultural Homebase

• Source Region

• Diffusion