AP Human Geography

Adherents are born into the faith and converts are not actively sought. Spatially concentrated, except for Judaism. EX) traditional religions in Africa and SA. Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shintoism

• animistic religion

• ethnic religion

• Feng-Shui/geomancy

• Zoroastrianism

• Confucianism

A ________ is a place name that reveals what is important to people and what the land is like.

• logogram

• lingua franca

• official language

• toponym

Which is NOT part of material culture?

• Language

• Food

• Clothing

• Shelter

Actions involving the whole world and increasing connections between people, corporations, and/or organizations is BEST known as

• unilaterialism

• globalization

• multiculturalism

• milieu

Popular culture 

• spreads slowly from group to group

• spreads by relocation diffusion

• has a rural base

• takes place in a large, heterogeneous group

Assimilation takes place when

• a smaller culture shares traits with a larger culture

• a smaller culture is totally absorbed by a larger, more dominant culture

• cultures give and take

• culture moves with people in relocation diffusion

Relocation diffusion is 

• listening to pop music

• a Syrian family moving to the US

• wearing jeans

• eating at McDonalds

Cultural globalization is illustrated by 

• world wide use of the internet

• the Amish communities in the US

• eating local food prepared in a small restaurant

• a folk dance in China

Viewpoint that people, not environments, are the dynamic forces of cultural development

• Possibilities

• Probabilism

• Possibilism

Which type of location does not change?

• Absolute

• Relative

• Positive

• Negative