AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabulary

What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?

• Cultural diffusion

• Sequent occupancy

• Cultural assimilation

• Cultural relativism

What is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture?

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Multiculturalism

• Globalization

What is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces?

• Urban Design

• Placemaking

• Landscape Architecture

• Public Policy

Which language family includes the languages from Europe, Iran, and India?

• Sino-Tibetan language family

• Afro-Asiatic language family

• Indo-European language family

• Turkic language family

Which of the following is when a trend spreads to a new location or cultural context and changes in its new location or context?

• Stimulus diffusion

• Cultural appropriation

• Relocation diffusion

• Contagious diffusion

What is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically?

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Isolationism

What is the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society?

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Integration

• Colonization

What are places that having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them?

• Indigenous community

• Urban society

• Colonial settlement

• Modern civilization

What happens when participants select cultural elements that may become part of or inherited culture?

• Acculturation

• Creolization

• Assimilation

• Cultural Diffusion

A universal language that can be commonly used internationally.

• Lingua Franca

• Esperanto

• Latin

• English