Cultural Geography Review

Which of the following is NOT an element of culture?

• Climate

• Education

• Technology

• Medicine

Define Culture

• specific ideas that people hold to be true

• Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live

• what is considered normal and expected about the way people do things in a specific country

What is Stimulus Expansion Diffusion?

• When ideas spread outwards from the original hearth and changes with each new person who adopts it.

• In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.

• When an idea or innovation spreads from a higher power to socially "normal" people.

• When an idea spreads through a populations and the population of those affected grows continuously larger.

When Chinese immigrants came to America and brought their cuisine, but adapted it to fit the American tastes

• Stimulus

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious

What type of diffusion is this

• Contagious

• Hierarchical

• Stimulus

• Relocation

Deity in Judaism

• Allah

• God

• Yahweh

the heartland of place of origin of a major culture; a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to other cultures.

• state
• nation
• cultural hearth
• suburb

How many cultural hearths were responsible for inventing their cultures in ancient times?

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 7

In each of the original cultural hearths, people simultaneously developed the same ways of eating, building shelters, speaking, writing, and living together.

• True

• False

The rapid, widespread diffusion through contact

• Stimulus

• Relocation

• Hierarchical

• Contagious