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AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabulary

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period.

a)

Culture

b)

Ethnicity

c)

Toponym

d)

Gender

2.

What is a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication?

a)

Culture trait

b)

Toponym

3.

What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings?

a)

Creolization

b)

Architecture

4.

What is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another?

a)

Cultural relativism

b)

Syncretism

5.

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

a)

Linguistic

b)

Ethnocentrism

6.

What is a landscape that is altered/changed by human activity?

a)

Cultural landscape

b)

Assimilation

7.

What is something that is relating to language or linguistics?

a)

Ethnicity

b)

Linguistic

8.

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

a)

Sequent occupancy

b)

Centrifugal Force

9.

What is architecture characterised by the use of local materials and knowledge, usually without the supervision of professional architects?

a)

Postmodern Architecture

b)

Traditional architecture

10.

What is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?

a)

Postmodern Architecture

b)

Traditional Architecture

11.

Which is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition?

a)

Ethnicity

b)

Gender

12.

What is used to define being either of the two sexes (male and female)?

a)

Gender

b)

Ethnicity

13.

What is an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background?

a)

Sense of place

b)

Ethnic neighborhood

14.

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?

a)

Ethnic neighborhood

b)

Indigenous community

15.

What is a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging?

a)

Sense of place

b)

Placemaking

16.

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

a)

Placemaking

b)

Sense of place

17.

What is a force that acts on a body moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center around which the body is moving?

a)

Centripetal force

b)

Centrifugal force

18.

What is an apparent force that acts outward on a body moving around a center, arising from the body's inertia?

a)

Centripetal force

b)

Centrifugal force

19.

What type of diffusion diffuses from one person to another?

a)

Relocation diffusion

b)

Expansion diffusion

20.

What type of diffusion diffuses from a country growing in size?

a)

Relocation diffusion

b)

Expansion diffusion

21.

What type of diffusion diffuses from one person to multiple people?

a)

Contagious diffusion

b)

Hierarchal diffusion

22.

Which type of diffusion diffuses from a person of higher class to a person of lower social class?

a)

Contagious diffusion

b)

Hierarchal diffusion

23.

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

a)

Stimulus diffusion

b)

Creolization

24.

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

a)

Creolization

b)

Stimulus Diffusion

25.

A universal language that can be commonly used internationally.

a)

Lingua Franca

b)

Multiculturalism

26.

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

a)

Colonialism

b)

Imperialism

27.

What is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?

a)

Colonialism

b)

Imperialism

28.

Which is the action of buying and selling goods and services?

a)

Trade

b)

Linguistic

29.

What is a map scale ratio in which the ratio of units on the map to units on the earth is quite small?

a)

Large-scale process

b)

Small-scale process

30.

What is a relatively small ratio between map units and ground units?

a)

Large-scale process

b)

Small-scale process

31.

What is the movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities?

a)

Globalization

b)

Urbanization

32.

What is the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact?

a)

Globalization

b)

Urbanization

33.

What is the idea that distance between places is, in effect, shrinking due to certain transportation and communities technologies?

a)

Time-space convergence

b)

Cultural convergence

34.

What is the contact and interaction of one culture with another?

a)

Cultural divergence

b)

Cultural convergence

35.

What is the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences?

a)

Cultural divergence

b)

Cultural convergence

36.

What is a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history?

a)

Language family

b)

Language dialect

37.

What is a way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker?

a)

Language family

b)

Language dialect

38.

What is any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication?

a)

Cultural Hearth

b)

Ethnicity

39.

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

a)

Indo-European language family

b)

Afro-Asiatic language family

40.

What is an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values?

a)

Toponym

b)

Gender

41.

What type of religion doesn’t stay within a certain region?

a)

Universalizing religion

b)

Ethnic religion

42.

A monotheistic, universalizing religion:

a)

Judaism

b)

Christianity

43.

A monotheistic, universalizing religion:

a)

Islam

b)

Sikhism

44.

A polytheistic, universalizing religion

a)

Hinduism

b)

Buddhism

45.

A non-major religion:

a)

Sikhism

b)

Islam

46.

What is a type of religion that typically stays in one region?

a)

Universalizing religion

b)

Ethnic religion

47.

An ethnic, polytheistic religion:

a)

Hinduism

b)

Buddhism

48.

An ethnic, monotheistic religion:

a)

Christianity

b)

Judaism

49.

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

a)

Acculturation

b)

Assimilation

50.

What is the process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture?

a)

Acculturation

b)

Assimilation

51.

What is a form of a tribal religion that involved community acceptance of a shaman, a religious leader, healer, and worker of magic who, through special powers, can intercede with and interpret the spirit world?

a)

Syncretism

b)

Multiculturalism

52.

What is the policy of maintaining a diversity of ethnic cultures within a community?

a)

Syncretism

b)

Multiculturalism