WorksheetsUnit 3 AP Human Geography Vocab
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 26mins
What are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group?
lingua franca
culture
ethnocentrist
ethnicity
ethnic neighborhood
What is a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication?
culture trait
cultural relativism
placemaking
ethnicity
traditional architecture
What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings?
culture
cultural landscape
architecture
sequent occupancy
indigenous community
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?
architecture
sense of place
cultural relativism
ethnocentrist
centrifugal force
What is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture?
ethnocentrist
cultural landscape
sequent occupancy
linguistic
placemaking
What is a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior?
linguistic
culture
architecture
cultural relativism
cultural landscape
What is a local or regional variations of a languages or dialect?
cultural landscape
sequent occupancy
linguistic
indigenous community
ethnic neighborhood
What is it when successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape?
traditional architecture
sequent occupancy
culture
ethnicity
centripetal force
What is architecture characterized by the use of local materials and knowledge, usually without the supervision of professional architects?
architecture
postmodern architecture
architecture
traditional architecture
cultural relativism
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?
postmodern architecture
linguistic
ethnic neighborhood
traditional architecture
architecture
What is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition?
ethnocentrist
ethnicity
placemaking
ethnic neighborhood
indigenous community
What is either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones?
ethnicity
gender
traditional architecture
sense of place
placemaking
What is a small area occupies by a distinctive minority culture?
indigenous community
sense of place
centripetal force
centrifugal force
ethnic neighborhood
What is a community of the first people in an area?
ethnicity
indigenous community
ethnic neighborhood
sense of place
expansion diffusion
What is the state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character?
sense of place
ethnic neighborhood
placemaking
relocation diffusion
expansion diffusion
What is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces?
linguistic
indigenous community
placemaking
stimulus diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
What is an attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state?
culture trait
centripetal force
cultural landscape
sense of place
imperialism
What is the force that pulls the population apart instead of bringing it together?
centripetal force
placemaking
indigenous community
sense of place
centrifugal force
What is the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another?
hierarchical diffusion
expansion diffusion
relocation diffusion
contagious diffusion
stimulus diffusion
What is a type of cultural diffusion where a trait moves to other locations from its original area?
relocation diffusion
expansion diffusion
contagious diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
stimulus diffusion
What is it when one person spreads the idea to multiple people?
expansion diffusion
relocation diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
stimulus diffusion
What is is when a cultural trait is spread from a high ranking societal figure to everyone else?
hierarchical diffusion
relocation diffusion
expansion diffusion
contagious diffusion
stimulus diffusion
What is it when a cultural trait spreads to a new location or cultural context and changes in its new location or context?
creolization
lingua franca
colonialism
colonialism
stimulus diffusion
What is the process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture?
creolization
colonialism
relocation diffusion
trade
expansion diffusion
What is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different?
creolization
hierarchical diffusion
imperialism
trade
lingua franca
What is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically?
creolization
lingua franca
colonialism
lingua franca
lingua franca
What is the policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?
colonialism
imperialism
lingua franca
creolization
trade
What is the action of buying and selling goods and services?
trade
imperialism
imperialism
hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
What is something shown large without a lot of detail?
trade
small-scale process
sense of place
placemaking
globalization
What is something shown small but with a lot of detail?
large-scale process
urbanization
urbanization
creolization
lingua franca
What is the process of making an area more urban?
globalization
time-space convergence
cultural convergence
urbanization
cultural divergence
What is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale?
urbanization
large-scale process
small-scale process
language family
globalization
What is process, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication, by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel (send messages) between them?
urbanization
time-space convergence
globalization
cultural hearth
language dialect
What is the theory that two cultures will be more and more like each other as their interactions increase?
trade
imperialism
colonialism
cultural convergence
cultural divergence
What is it when a culture separates or goes in a different direction?
globalization
cultural divergence
urbanization
urbanization
Sikhism
What is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family?
Christianity
Islam
language family
toponym
urbanization
What is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena in the same language?
language family
cultural divergence
language dialect
cultural convergence
Hinduism
What is an area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world?
cultural hearth
cultural divergence
cultural convergence
toponym
Sikhism
What is a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects including English?
toponym
Indo-European language family
universalizing religion
cultural hearth
language dialect
What is the name by which a geographical place is known?
toponym
universalizing religion
language family
language dialect
globalization
What are the three main religions called as to what group of appeal they appeal to?
Christianity
universalizing religion
Islam
assimilation
acculturation
What is the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices?
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Sikhism
toponym
What is the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah?
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Sikhism
Judaism
What is the faith that was founded by Siddhartha Gautam?
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Sikhism
Buddhism
What is the monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak?
Christianity
Buddhism
Sikhism
Judaism
acculturation
What is a religion or belief associated with a particular ethnic group called?
Sikhism
ethnic religion
universalizing religion
multiculturalism
assimilation
What is the world's third largest religion?
hinduism
Judaism
Islam
ethnic religion
acculturation
What is the monotheistic religion of the Jews?
Sikhism
Judaism
toponym
universalizing religion
syncretism
What is assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one?
syncretism
multiculturalism
cultural convergence
assimilation
acculturation
What is the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas?
assimilation
acculturation
universalizing religion
Christianity
ethnic religion
What is the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language?
universalizing religion
syncretism
ethnic religion
assimilation
multiculturalism
What is the way in which a society deals with cultural diversity, both at the national and at the community level?
multiculturalism
assimilation
acculturation
syncretism
urbanization
