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WorksheetsAPHG Unit 3: Cultural Geography
Total questions: 88
Worksheet time: 43mins
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Class
Date
1.
Cultural geography is the study of
a)
global customs and artifacts.
b)
cultural complexes.
c)
the spatial distribution of cultural traits.
d)
how cultures change through time.
2.
The clearest example of a folk culture today in the US is
a)
Hispanics in southwest Florida
b)
Catholics in the northeast U.S.
c)
Harlem in New York City
d)
Amish of southeast Pennsylvania
3.
In terms of diffusion, what is a hearth?
a)
The point of origin
b)
The final destination
c)
The mid-way point
d)
All points along the diffusion route
4.
NOT an example of a cultural landscape
a)
The street patterns of Bogota
b)
the buildings of Ciudad Perdida
c)
a rain forest
d)
A golf course
5.
Cultural traditions, such as Carnaval (Brasil, Barranquilla...), are ________________ since they are a celebration that blends elements of African, European, and Indigenous cultures.
a)
wicked awesome
b)
exotic
c)
terrifying
d)
syncretic
6.
Which statement concerning the globalization of Western culture is not true?
a)
It is often spread through TV and internet
b)
No areas of the world try to resist western cultural traits
c)
Many foreign cultures have adopted western cultural traits like clothes
d)
Many popular cultural elements begin in western civilizations
7.
Culture is spread by...
a)
Movement of people
b)
TV and Internet
c)
War and conquest
d)
All are correct
8.
The spread of an idea or trait through the physical movement of people from one place to another.
a)
Relocation Diffusion
b)
Hierarchical Diffusion
c)
Stimulus Diffusion
d)
Contagious Diffusion
9.
The spread of Blue Jeans from the US to the rest of the world is...
a)
Contagious Diffusion
b)
Hierarchical Diffusion
c)
Relocation Diffusion
d)
Stimulus Diffusion
10.
Whip/nae nae, Harlem Shake, or Ice bucket challenge videos are examples this type of diffusion...
a)
Relocation Diffusion
b)
Contagious Diffusion
c)
Stimulus Diffusion
d)
Hierarchical Diffusion
11.
Is traditionally practiced primarilty by small, Homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
neither
d)
Both
12.
Changes quickly, is more dominant and threatening and is more likely to vary from time to time at a given place
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
13.
Displays values and traditions of a civilization
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
14.
A repetitive act that a particular individual performs, such as wearing jeans to class every day
a)
custom
b)
habit
c)
taboo
d)
assimilation
15.
The spread of Roman Catholicism to Latin America is an example of
a)
stimulus diffusion
b)
contagious diffusion
c)
relocation diffusion
d)
hierarchical diffusion
16.
The belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than others cultures
a)
Ethnocentrism
b)
Prejudice
c)
Stereotyping
d)
Acculturation
17.
Country music developed in the US, but its center is located in
a)
Los Angeles, CA
b)
Nashville, TN
c)
Atlanta, GA
d)
New York, NY
18.
Popular culture usually originates in which areas?
a)
less developed countries
b)
Latin America and Africa
c)
More developed countries
d)
former communist countries
19.
Soccer began as a folk culture, in ____________, but is now a popular culture sport.
a)
Netherlands
b)
Belgium
c)
France
d)
England
20.
Pork is not consumed by members of these two major world religions
a)
Hinduism and Christianity
b)
Christianity and Judaism
c)
Islam and Hinduism
d)
Judaism and Islam
21.
In which state would alcohol consumption be relatively low?
a)
Washington
b)
New York
c)
Utah
d)
California
22.
Which country would be less likely to produce wine?
a)
United States
b)
France
c)
China
d)
Italy
23.
the process of giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place
a)
acculturation
b)
assimilation
c)
custom
d)
taboo
24.
This language family came from the ancient Roman Empire.
a)
Slavic
b)
English
c)
Germanic
d)
Romance
25.
This language family has the most native speakers.
a)
Germanic
b)
Romance
c)
Slavic
d)
Italian
26.
This language family is spoken in Russia and other eastern European countries.
a)
Germanic
b)
Slavic
c)
English
d)
Romance
27.
Which of the following is NOT a Slavic language?
a)
Russian
b)
Polish
c)
Czech
d)
French
28.
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a
a)
habit
b)
custom
c)
taboo
d)
tariff
29.
A language understood by people who all speak a different native language is called a
a)
pidgin language
b)
creole language
c)
lingua franca
d)
revived language
30.
Which of the following groups invaded England and contributed to the development of the English language?
a)
Angles
b)
Saxons
c)
Normans
d)
All of the above
31.
English is part of which language family?
a)
Indo-European
b)
Sino-Tibetan
c)
Romance
d)
North Germanic
32.
Colin Renfrew's research makes up most of which hypothesis of language diffusion?
a)
Nomadic Warrior
b)
Nomadic Herder
c)
Silk Road Trader
d)
Sedentary Farmer
33.
What is a boundary between language regions?
a)
isogloss
b)
written tradition
c)
enclave
d)
toponym
34.
What is the language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers?
a)
Mandarin
b)
English
c)
Spanish
d)
Hindi
35.
How many languages are spoken in the world approximately?
a)
700
b)
7,000
c)
700,000
d)
70
36.
the language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps...
a)
creole language
b)
pidgin language
c)
official language
d)
standard language
37.
Why is English the official language in 57 countries?
a)
The Beatles!
b)
Most effective at destroying other cultures
c)
diffusion of Disney movies
d)
Colonization
38.
A regional variation of a standard language is called a:
a)
accent
b)
dialect
c)
isogloss
d)
lingua franca
39.
In a language with multiple dialects, one dialect may be recognized as the _______________
a)
official language
b)
standard language
c)
standard dialect
d)
language family
40.
What type of religion actively tries to convert people to its belief system no matter their background or place of origin?
a)
Ethnic religion
b)
Universalizing religion
c)
Polytheistic religion
d)
Monotheistic religion
41.
The racist laws that divided South Africa were known as
a)
apartheid
b)
states rights
c)
Jim Crow laws
d)
apartheus
42.
What is the most populous ethnic group in the United States?
a)
African American
b)
Asian American
c)
Hispanic/Latino
d)
American Indian
43.
This Middle-Eastern ethnic group does not have its own state and is dispersed among enough countries that it is a minority in each one.
a)
Irish
b)
Turks
c)
Persians
d)
Kurds
44.
This refers to the breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities and ethnic groups.
a)
Balkanization
b)
Globalization
c)
Assimilation
d)
Acculturation
45.
This is the process by which one group of people try to eliminate the presence of another ethnic group either through relocation of elimination.
a)
Genocide
b)
Balkanization
c)
Assimilation
d)
Ethnic Cleansing
46.
Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, New York; Italian Americans in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts are examples of...
a)
Ethnic neighborhoods
b)
Authenticity
c)
Commodification
d)
Neolocalism
47.
This is tied to physical attributes of humans that have developed over time as modern humans spread around the world...
a)
Gender
b)
Identity
c)
Race
d)
Age
48.
Sense of superiority attached to race is known as....
a)
racism
b)
gender
c)
race
d)
identity
49.
Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines are called...
a)
dialects
b)
standard language
c)
dialect chains
d)
language family
50.
Countries with linguistic fragmentation will adopt this to through media outlets to tie a country together is called....
a)
Pidgin language
b)
official language
c)
lingua franca
d)
Romance languages
51.
Pidgin language is...
a)
When people speak two or more languages are in contact and they combine parts of their language in a simplified structure and vocabulary
b)
a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce.
c)
Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines
d)
A language that is published, widely distributed, and purposely taught is most common in technologically advanced
52.
This can help identify an area's religion, like in Quebec
a)
Toponym
b)
Globalization
c)
Lingua France
d)
Global Language
53.
a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage that formed into a new language.
a)
Pidgin
b)
Creole
c)
Language Family
d)
Official Language
54.
Who lead the Cambodian genocide?
a)
Hitler
b)
El Shibab
c)
Pol Pot
d)
Hutu Government
55.
What started the genocide?
a)
The Rwandan Leaders plane was shot down
b)
The Hutus bombed Rwanda
c)
The Tutsis killed the Hutus priest
d)
The president attacked civilians
56.
What language family is spoken by approx 6% of world's people and primarily spoken in Indonesia, Phillipines, and Madagascar?
a)
Austro-Asiatic
b)
Austronesian
c)
Sino-Tibetan
57.
What language is
-in Afro-Asiatic family (same as Hebrew)
-spoken by 200 million as 1st language
-spread from its hearth through religion
-in Afro-Asiatic family (same as Hebrew)
-spoken by 200 million as 1st language
-spread from its hearth through religion
a)
Arabic
b)
Swahili
c)
Turkish
d)
Spanish
58.
What is the pre-dominant language family in sub-Saharan Africa and includes Swahili
a)
Afro-Asiatic
b)
Niger-Congo
c)
Khoisan
d)
Nilo-Saharan
59.
What challenges might Nigeria have internally?
a)
huge diversity of languages
b)
colonial borders created by Britain
c)
an Islamic north and a Christian south
d)
all of the above
60.
A language ____________ is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
Hint: The trunk of the tree
Hint: The trunk of the tree
a)
branch
b)
family
c)
dialect
d)
group
61.
What was the Latin spoken by people in the provinces, referring to "the masses" introduced by soldiers stationed throughout the Roman empire?
a)
Slang Latin
b)
Soldier Latin
c)
Vulgar Latin
d)
Pop Latin
62.
The theory that languages spread by means of westward expansion on horseback by the Kurgan people is:
a)
Convergence Theory
b)
Nomadic Warrior Theory
c)
Agricultural Theory
d)
Nostratic Theory
63.
Many local languages have become__due to the global dominance of English
a)
used more widely
b)
extinct
c)
endangered
d)
creolized
64.
Belgium is divided among language use between north and south, north uses__ and south uses__
a)
French, Flemish
b)
German, English
c)
Flemish, French
d)
Dutch, English
65.
Swizterland has __ languages that peacefully coexist
a)
2
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
66.
A language unrelated to any other and not attached to any language family is known as a
a)
common language
b)
creolized language
c)
extinct language
d)
isolated language
67.
A good example of an isolated language is __ located in the Pyrenese Mtns. between France&Spain
a)
Icelandic
b)
Native american
c)
Gothic
d)
Basque
68.
An example of an Extinct Language that has been revived is
a)
Gothic
b)
English
c)
Hebrew
d)
Quechuan
69.
___ is a word used to describe African American English
a)
Ebony
b)
Phonics
c)
Ghetto
d)
Ebonics
70.
You hear another student say “Arabs Persian and Kurds all live in the same region of the world and are practically the same thing. The only difference is what country they live in.” Why is this student incorrect?
a)
The groups have many similarities, but all have the same religion.
b)
The groups have many differences in their culture and religious beliefs.
c)
They all have the same founder
d)
Shia believe Mahammad was resurrected.
71.
How are religious groups different from ethnic groups?
a)
Religious groups are not dependent on ancestry.
b)
Religious groups always share the same culture.
c)
Religious groups are the same as ethnic groups.
d)
They have different symbols.
72.
Name the largest ethnic group in SW Asia.
a)
Kurds
b)
Muslims
c)
Arabs
d)
Persains
73.
What is the religion of most of the Kurds.
a)
Shia Islam
b)
Kurdism
c)
Sunni Islam
d)
Judaism
74.
A distinct ethnic group that lives in the mountainous areas where Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq come together.
a)
Arabs
b)
Persians
c)
Kurds
d)
Syrians
75.
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
a)
P.W. Botha
b)
Thabo Mbeki
c)
Nelson Mandela
d)
F.W. de Klerk
76.
Who started the killing in the Rwandan Genocide?
a)
Tutsi rebels
b)
Twa resistance
c)
Belgians wanting control in Rwanda again
d)
Hutu radicals
77.
What international peace keeping organization was created after the Holocaust in an attempt to prevent another genocide from happening?
a)
United Nations
b)
League of Nations
c)
Blue Cross
d)
The Arab league
78.
Which of the following explains why the former Yugoslavia broke up into a number of small countries after communist control ended in the late 1980s?
a)
tensions between different ethnic groups
b)
the desire of some republics to remain communist
c)
pressure from Western European nations
d)
the lack of a common heritage
79.
A historical term used to reference where an ethnic minority is forced to live
a)
Concentration Camp
b)
Asylum
c)
Ghetto
d)
Prison
80.
In which of the following places has a genocide not been attempted?
a)
Rwanda
b)
Darfur
c)
Cambodia
d)
Mexico
81.
Which of the following is not a part of the United Kingdom?
a)
England
b)
Ireland
c)
Scotland
d)
Wales
82.
Darfur and Nuba are both regions in what country?
a)
Western Sahara
b)
Egypt
c)
Sierra Leone
d)
Sudan
83.
What religions are primarily practiced in South Sudan?
a)
Islam and Christianity
b)
Christianity and animist religions
c)
Islam and animist religions
d)
Only Christianity
84.
What is the term for the emigration of whites from an area in anticipation of blacks immigrating into the area?
a)
Apartheid
b)
Ghettos
c)
Nationalism
d)
White Flight
85.
The fall of what country led to ethnic revival in Europe?
a)
Yugoslavia
b)
Soviet Union
c)
Germany
d)
Poland
86.
Where is the highest percentage of African-Americans in the U.S.?
a)
Alaska
b)
South East
c)
West
d)
Mid-West
87.
Where is the highest Asian-American population in the U.S.?
a)
East Coast
b)
South East
c)
Alaska
d)
West Coast
88.
What was the "Separate but Equal" doctrine?
a)
Separate but equal treatment of Asians and whites
b)
Separate but equal treatment of Mexicans and blacks
c)
Separate but equal treatment of Germans
d)
Separate but equal treatment of blacks and whites
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