WorksheetsHuman Geo Mr Flo 4
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
The Duchess of Cambridge's lace wedding gown is an example of __________ .
a)
material culture
b)
folk culture.
c)
colonialism.
d)
contagious diffusion
2.
A __________ is a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits to distinguish themselves from others.
a)
race
b)
material culture
c)
culture
d)
local culture
3.
Customs:
a)
discourage cultural appropriation.
b)
are always protected by governments.
c)
help sustain local cultures.
d)
destroy ethnic neighborhoods.
4.
The South African theme park “The Lost City,” the city of Branson in Missouri, and an Irish Pub in Dubai __________ .
a)
capitalize on the power of hierarchical diffusion.
b)
create new local cultures.
c)
dispel myths about local cultures
d)
are examples of the commodification of local culture.
5.
__________ is to placelessness as __________ is to cultural diffusion.
a)
The cultural landscape, Paris
b)
The United States, Europe
c)
McDonald's, Japan
d)
Starbuck's, Facebook
6.
Distance decay __________
a)
has not been altered by technology.
b)
has been altered by transportation and communication technologies.
c)
and time-space compression explain how places become disconnected.
d)
explains the success of RenRen in China.
7.
The fact that if you can go to a cinema in Seoul, South Korea you can choose among just released American films shown in English with Korean subtitles __________ .
a)
reflects the hierarchical diffusion of popular culture.
b)
reflects the global-local continuum concept.
c)
might trigger a concern over the loss of local culture.
d)
all of these
8.
The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape is referred to as __________ .
a)
placelessness
b)
sprawl
c)
the cultural landscape
d)
clustering
9.
People in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes, in a process called __________ .
a)
cultural diffusion
b)
glocalization.
c)
world heritage development
d)
authenticity
10.
The study of vulnerability requires thinking geographically because __________ .
a)
natural hazards can happen anytime.
b)
fieldwork is the only way to study hazards
c)
most people have no sense of place.
d)
not all people and places are affected in the same way by social, political, economic, or environmental change.
11.
Power relationships can not reflect the contest over how a place should be seen and what meaning to give it.
a)
True
b)
False
c)
Maybe
12.
__________ is defined as “the social relations stretched out,”and __________ as “particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together, over time, in a particular location.”
a)
ethnicity, place
b)
space, place
c)
gender , race
d)
race, place
13.
The process of infusing a place with meaning and feeling is what geographers refer to as __________
a)
diversity
b)
stereo typing place
c)
developing a sense of place.
d)
developing an ethnic identity.
14.
In Britain the term “black” refers not only to Afro-Caribbeans and Africans, but also to individuals form the Indian Subcontinent. This statement is an example of __________ .
a)
the variety of racial distinctions that are used in places around the world.
b)
how race is most often a chosen component of identity.
c)
racism
d)
gendered place
15.
People construct their identities through experiences and emotions.
a)
true
b)
false
c)
maybe
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