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Unit 3 AP Human Geography Vocab

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group?

a)

lingua franca

b)

culture

c)

ethnocentrist

d)

ethnicity

e)

ethnic neighborhood

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)

cultural relativism

c)

placemaking

d)

ethnicity

e)

traditional architecture

3.

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

a)

culture

b)

cultural landscape

c)

architecture

d)

sequent occupancy

e)

indigenous community

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)

architecture

b)

sense of place

c)

cultural relativism

d)

ethnocentrist

e)

centrifugal force

5.

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

a)

ethnocentrist

b)

cultural landscape

c)

sequent occupancy

d)

linguistic

e)

placemaking

6.

What is a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior?

a)

linguistic

b)

culture

c)

architecture

d)

cultural relativism

e)

cultural landscape

7.

What is a local or regional variations of a languages or dialect?

a)

cultural landscape

b)

sequent occupancy

c)

linguistic

d)

indigenous community

e)

ethnic neighborhood

8.

What is it when successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape?

a)

traditional architecture

b)

sequent occupancy

c)

culture

d)

ethnicity

e)

centripetal force

9.

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

a)

architecture

b)

postmodern architecture

c)

architecture

d)

traditional architecture

e)

cultural relativism

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?

a)

postmodern architecture

b)

linguistic

c)

ethnic neighborhood

d)

traditional architecture

e)

architecture

11.

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

a)

ethnocentrist

b)

ethnicity

c)

placemaking

d)

ethnic neighborhood

e)

indigenous community

12.

What is either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones?

a)

ethnicity

b)

gender

c)

traditional architecture

d)

sense of place

e)

placemaking

13.

What is a small area occupies by a distinctive minority culture?

a)

indigenous community

b)

sense of place

c)

centripetal force

d)

centrifugal force

e)

ethnic neighborhood

14.

What is a community of the first people in an area?

a)

ethnicity

b)

indigenous community

c)

ethnic neighborhood

d)

sense of place

e)

expansion diffusion

15.

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?

a)

sense of place

b)

ethnic neighborhood

c)

placemaking

d)

relocation diffusion

e)

expansion diffusion

16.

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

a)

linguistic

b)

indigenous community

c)

placemaking

d)

stimulus diffusion

e)

hierarchical diffusion

17.

What is an attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state?

a)

culture trait

b)

centripetal force

c)

cultural landscape

d)

sense of place

e)

imperialism

18.

What is the force that pulls the population apart instead of bringing it together?

a)

centripetal force

b)

placemaking

c)

indigenous community

d)

sense of place

e)

centrifugal force

19.

What is the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another?

a)

hierarchical diffusion

b)

expansion diffusion

c)

relocation diffusion

d)

contagious diffusion

e)

stimulus diffusion

20.

What is a type of cultural diffusion where a trait moves to other locations from its original area?

a)

relocation diffusion

b)

expansion diffusion

c)

contagious diffusion

d)

hierarchical diffusion

e)

stimulus diffusion

21.

What is it when one person spreads the idea to multiple people?

a)

expansion diffusion

b)

relocation diffusion

c)

hierarchical diffusion

d)

contagious diffusion

e)

stimulus diffusion

22.

What is is when a cultural trait is spread from a high ranking societal figure to everyone else?

a)

hierarchical diffusion

b)

relocation diffusion

c)

expansion diffusion

d)

contagious diffusion

e)

stimulus diffusion

23.

What is it when a cultural trait spreads to a new location or cultural context and changes in its new location or context?

a)

creolization

b)

lingua franca

c)

colonialism

d)

colonialism

e)

stimulus diffusion

24.

What is the process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture?

a)

creolization

b)

colonialism

c)

relocation diffusion

d)

trade

e)

expansion diffusion

25.

What is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different?

a)

creolization

b)

hierarchical diffusion

c)

imperialism

d)

trade

e)

lingua franca

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)

creolization

b)

lingua franca

c)

colonialism

d)

lingua franca

e)

lingua franca

27.

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

a)

colonialism

b)

imperialism

c)

lingua franca

d)

creolization

e)

trade

28.

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

a)

trade

b)

imperialism

c)

imperialism

d)

hierarchical diffusion

e)

contagious diffusion

29.

What is something shown large without a lot of detail?

a)

trade

b)

small-scale process

c)

sense of place

d)

placemaking

e)

globalization

30.

What is something shown small but with a lot of detail?

a)

large-scale process

b)

urbanization

c)

urbanization

d)

creolization

e)

lingua franca

31.

What is the process of making an area more urban?

a)

globalization

b)

time-space convergence

c)

cultural convergence

d)

urbanization

e)

cultural divergence

32.

What is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale?

a)

urbanization

b)

large-scale process

c)

small-scale process

d)

language family

e)

globalization

33.

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?

a)

urbanization

b)

time-space convergence

c)

globalization

d)

cultural hearth

e)

language dialect

34.

What is the theory that two cultures will be more and more like each other as their interactions increase?

a)

trade

b)

imperialism

c)

colonialism

d)

cultural convergence

e)

cultural divergence

35.

What is it when a culture separates or goes in a different direction?

a)

globalization

b)

cultural divergence

c)

urbanization

d)

urbanization

e)

Sikhism

36.

What is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family?

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

language family

d)

toponym

e)

urbanization

37.

What is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena in the same language?

a)

language family

b)

cultural divergence

c)

language dialect

d)

cultural convergence

e)

Hinduism

38.

What is an area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world?

a)

cultural hearth

b)

cultural divergence

c)

cultural convergence

d)

toponym

e)

Sikhism

39.

What is a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects including English?

a)

toponym

b)

Indo-European language family

c)

universalizing religion

d)

cultural hearth

e)

language dialect

40.

What is the name by which a geographical place is known?

a)

toponym

b)

universalizing religion

c)

language family

d)

language dialect

e)

globalization

41.

What are the three main religions called as to what group of appeal they appeal to?

a)

Christianity

b)

universalizing religion

c)

Islam

d)

assimilation

e)

acculturation

42.

What is the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices?

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Buddhism

d)

Sikhism

e)

toponym

43.

What is the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Islam

c)

Christianity

d)

Sikhism

e)

Judaism

44.

What is the faith that was founded by Siddhartha Gautam?

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Buddhism

d)

Sikhism

e)

Buddhism

45.

What is the monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak?

a)

Christianity

b)

Buddhism

c)

Sikhism

d)

Judaism

e)

acculturation

46.

What is a religion or belief associated with a particular ethnic group called?

a)

Sikhism

b)

ethnic religion

c)

universalizing religion

d)

multiculturalism

e)

assimilation

47.

What is the world's third largest religion?

a)

hinduism

b)

Judaism

c)

Islam

d)

ethnic religion

e)

acculturation

48.

What is the monotheistic religion of the Jews?

a)

Sikhism

b)

Judaism

c)

toponym

d)

universalizing religion

e)

syncretism

49.

What is assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one?

a)

syncretism

b)

multiculturalism

c)

cultural convergence

d)

assimilation

e)

acculturation

50.

What is the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas?

a)

assimilation

b)

acculturation

c)

universalizing religion

d)

Christianity

e)

ethnic religion

51.

What is the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language?

a)

universalizing religion

b)

syncretism

c)

ethnic religion

d)

assimilation

e)

multiculturalism

52.

What is the way in which a society deals with cultural diversity, both at the national and at the community level?

a)

multiculturalism

b)

assimilation

c)

acculturation

d)

syncretism

e)

urbanization