WorksheetsAP Geo: Social [religion, language, culture]
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 36mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is monotheism?
a)
The belief or worship of more than one god.
b)
The belief of the existence of only one god.
c)
The belief that objects or natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
d)
The belief that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body/form after death.
2.
Who is the founder of Judaism?
a)
Muhammad
b)
Abraham
c)
Jesus of Nazareth
d)
Siddhartha Gautama
3.
What is a major symbol in Christianity?
a)
Star of David
b)
Eight spoked wheel
c)
Moon with Star
d)
Cross, fish, martyr
4.
What are the names of the two religions who have a taboo against pork?
a)
Judaism and Islam
b)
Islam and Hinduism
c)
Judaism and Buddhism
d)
Buddhism and Hinduism
5.
What is polytheism?
a)
The belief or worship of more than one god.
b)
The belief of the existence of only one god.
c)
The belief that objects or natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
d)
The belief that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body/form after death.
6.
What is animism?
a)
The belief that objects or natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
b)
The belief of the existence of only one god.
c)
The belief or worship of more than one god.
d)
The belief that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body/form after death.
7.
Name 3 monotheistic religions:
a)
-Judaism
-Christianity
-Islam
-Christianity
-Islam
b)
-Hinduism
-Taoism
-Shintoism
-Taoism
-Shintoism
8.
Name 3 polytheistic religions:
a)
-Judaism
-Christianity
-Islam
-Christianity
-Islam
b)
-Hinduism
-Taoism
-Shintoism
-Taoism
-Shintoism
9.
At what hearth did Buddhism originate from?
a)
Mecca
b)
Jerusalem
c)
Nepal
d)
Israel
10.
What country has a majority of Jews?
a)
Israel
b)
Mecca
c)
Nepal
d)
India
11.
Which of the following religions did not originate in the Indian Subcontinent?
a)
Buddhism
b)
Hinduism
c)
Sikhism
d)
Zoroastrianism
12.
Taoism, which represents a blend of indigenous folk beliefs and exogenous Buddhist beliefs that diffused eastward from India, is best characterized as a:
a)
monotheistic religion
b)
syncretic religion
c)
ethnocentrism
d)
secular religion
13.
This is the oldest polytheistic religion in the world.
a)
Hinduism
b)
Judaism
c)
Christianity
d)
Buddhism
14.
Which religion believed in the Eightfold Path?
a)
Legalism
b)
Hinduism
c)
Jainism
d)
Buddhism
15.
About 80% of India's people follow this religion.
a)
Hinduism
b)
Buddhism
c)
Confucianism
d)
Shintoism
16.
Allah is the god for which religion?
a)
Shintoism
b)
Buddhism
c)
Islam
d)
Confucianism
17.
This religion follows the teachings of Muhammad.
a)
Islam
b)
Shintoism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Buddhism
18.
What Chinese school of thought teaches respect to elders and the law as the best way to maintain a peaceful society?
a)
Taoism
b)
Christianity
c)
Confucianism
d)
Buddhism
19.
This statue represents the founder of what religion?
a)
Christianity
b)
Buddhism
c)
Hinduism
d)
Islam
20.
Where did both Hinduism and Buddhism begin?
a)
India
b)
China
c)
Sumer
d)
Egypt
21.
Which branch of Islam is the minority?
a)
Sunni
b)
Shia
c)
Farsi
d)
Arab
22.
What type of diffusion is when the idea is adopted, but changed?
a)
Stimulus
b)
Relocation
c)
Hierarchical
d)
Contagious
23.
Clothing is an example of what type of culture?
a)
Popular
b)
Folk
c)
Material
d)
Non-Material
24.
What is a regional variation of a language?
a)
Family
b)
Sub-family
c)
Group
d)
Dialect
25.
What does it mean when a religion does not seek converts and is usually spatially concentrated?
a)
Universal
b)
Global
c)
Animist
d)
Ethnic
26.
What type of culture is typically rural, tries to keep others out, and keep their beliefs in?
a)
Popular
b)
Hierarchical
c)
Folk
d)
Musical
27.
What is the measure of the average number of babies a woman will have over her lifetime?
a)
Rate of Natural Increase
b)
Total Fertility Rate
c)
Crude Birth Rate
d)
Infant Mortality Rate
28.
Which of the following terms best describes the geographical boundary of a particular language feature?
a)
linguistic hearth
b)
toponym
c)
isogloss
d)
language border
29.
Compared to popular cultures, folk cultures tend to be:
a)
more cosmopolitan
b)
more homogenous
c)
more diffuse
d)
more contagious
30.
A dialect is best classified as which of the following:
a)
cultural complex
b)
cultural trait
c)
language branch
d)
language family
31.
A Mormon church located in a rural area of northwestern Colorado is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion:
a)
expansion
b)
relocation
c)
hierarchical
d)
maladaptive
32.
A highly simplified language developed between linguistically heterogenous groups for the purpose of basic intergroup communication is called:
a)
creole
b)
pidgin
c)
lingua franca
d)
standard dialect
33.
All of the following belong to the Indo-European language family except:
a)
Hindi
b)
Bengali
c)
Farsi
d)
Mandarin
34.
An immigrant who selectively adopts certain customs of the dominant host society in order to advance socioeconomically, while still retaining much of his or her native customs, practices & beliefs, best illustrates the concept of:
a)
acculturation
b)
maladaptive behavior
c)
assimilation
d)
ethnocentrism
35.
A new fashion trend originating in New York City that diffuses to Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo before reaching rural areas of New York state would be an example of which type of diffusion:
a)
contagious
b)
hierarchical
c)
uniform
d)
relocation
36.
In which of the following countries are inhabitants subject to Sharia law?
a)
Venezuela
b)
Ethiopia
c)
Turkey
d)
Saudi Arabia
37.
Telecommunication networks, whose areas of service radiate outward from central nodes best represent which of the following types of culture?
a)
Vernacular
b)
Formal
c)
Folk
d)
Functional
38.
Two prominent French ethnic islands in North America are historically located in which of the following areas?
a)
Louisiana and Quebec
b)
Minnesota and Newfoundland
c)
New Brunswick and California
d)
Utah and Ontario
39.
All of the following are traits common to Muslim regions of the world except:
a)
fasting
b)
pilgrimage
c)
polytheism
d)
daily ritual prayers
40.
Migration theory that is known for taking in the good and getting rid of the bad:
a)
push and pull theory
b)
welcome theory
c)
give and take theory
d)
none of these
41.
Which of the following is an example of acculturation:
a)
the Japanese adopting baseball
b)
the U.S. starting football
c)
Eating pizza in Chicago
d)
All of these
42.
Places that share similar characteristics are called
a)
human systems
b)
environments
c)
regions
d)
physical systems
43.
The area of origin of a cultural trait.
a)
Culture Zone
b)
Culture Realm
c)
Culture Home
d)
Culture Hearth
44.
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
45.
Heterogeneous Population
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
46.
Homogeneous Population
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
47.
Changes quickly
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
48.
Mostly spreads through relocation diffusion
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
49.
Can create large amounts of pollution, trash, and uniform landscapes
a)
Folk Culture
b)
Pop Culture
c)
Neither
d)
Both
50.
Which language is NOT a Romance language?
a)
French
b)
English
c)
Portuguese
d)
Spanish
51.
1. Why are the official languages in many African countries different from the African language group native to that area?
a)
The influence of Chinese and Indian immigrants
b)
The differences in physical landscape
c)
The influence of European colonization
d)
The varying cultural landscapes
52.
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish is an example of
a)
pop culture
b)
LDC
c)
folk culture
d)
taboo
53.
Pop culture typically originates in
a)
more developed countries (MDC's)
b)
southern hemisphere
c)
less populated areas
d)
less developed countries (LDC's)
54.
_______ is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.
a)
diffusion
b)
habit
c)
environemental determinism
d)
ethnocentrism
55.
The widest spoken lingua franca in the world is
a)
Russian
b)
Chinese
c)
English
d)
Swahili
56.
When a pidgin language is adopted as the main language of communication for a people it is called
a)
a dialect.
b)
a language family.
c)
advanced pidgin.
d)
a creole.
57.
We know that Latin no longer exists, rather, changed over time into something new. This demonstrates which concept of language change?
a)
language divergence
b)
language convergence
c)
language isolation
d)
language serendipity
58.
Variations of structure & vocabulary in a language is called
a)
a dialect
b)
an accent
c)
an idiom
d)
crazy talk
59.
Unthinkable prohibitions against the social norms.
a)
Symbolic Clash
b)
Social Norms
c)
Mores
d)
Taboo
60.
The time gap between the intro of new technology and the cultural adjustments the technology requires.
a)
Cultural Relativity
b)
Cultural Lag
c)
Culture Shock
d)
Cultural Universal
61.
Clothing, food, and housing are all examples of
a)
punk culture
b)
youth culture
c)
folk culture
d)
material culture
62.
What is the language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers?
a)
Mandarin
b)
English
c)
Spanish
d)
Hindi
63.
What is the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas?
a)
Apartheid
b)
Block-busting
c)
Ethnic Cleansing
d)
Balkanization
64.
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a
a)
Custom
b)
Popular Culture
c)
Habit
d)
Taboo
65.
A repetitive act performed by an individual is a
a)
custom
b)
popular culture
c)
habit
d)
taboo
66.
Typically, popular culture
a)
originates in a number of locations at the same time.
b)
reflects the characteristics of a distinctive physical environment.
c)
experiences frequent changes through time and space.
d)
is practiced by small homogeneous groups.
67.
Before reaching other parts of ________ and, eventually, marginalized urban areas throughout the country, Hip hop music originated in the late 1970s in the South Bronx.
a)
Chicago
b)
Boston
c)
New York City
d)
St. Louis
68.
As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from
a)
at the "discovery" of leisure time
b)
the application of industrial technology
c)
familiar events in daily life
d)
a traumatic event unique to the history of a particular social group.
69.
When we analyze the patterns of popular culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that
a)
all culture is transmitted from one location to another through small scale and local migration.
b)
popular culture diffuses through relocation diffusion.
c)
nodes of innovation are central to the process of hierarchical diffusion.
d)
unlike folk culture, popular culture is usually transmitted
70.
Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to
a)
tell a story about life-cycle events, work, or natural disasters
b)
be considered examples of culture.
c)
feature instruments and styles of performance associated with dance clubs.
d)
be transmitted in written form.
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