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WorksheetsAP Human Geo: Cultures, Religions, and Languages
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 10hrs 0mins
What is a Hearth?
The region in which ideas originate.
Fireplace bricks.
The spread of an idea over time.
A mother language.
What is Diffusion?
The spread of an idea over time.
The place an idea originates.
Different religions.
Spread of light.
What is Expansion Diffusion?
When ideas spread to new locations but stay strong in their original locations as well.
When people move from place to place bringing their ideas and innovations with.
When ideas spread from the original hearth outwards but is changed as it reaches new people.
Modern culture that keeps receiving new ideas and is aimed at younger generations.
What is Contagious Expansion Diffusion?
Is a distance controlling spread of an idea that goes locally from person to person, like a disease.
Is the spread of an idea through people of a higher power.
In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.
When an idea diffuses from its original hearth outwards, but is changed by new adopters.
What is Stimulus Expansion Diffusion?
When ideas spread outwards from the original hearth and changes with each new person who adopts it.
In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.
When an idea or innovation spreads from a higher power to socially "normal" people.
When an idea spreads through a populations and the population of those affected grows continuously larger.
What are some barriers to diffusion?
Distance Decay
Language
Political Issues
Ethnicity
Height
What is Acculturation?
The process of taking in or merging into a different culture, usually a dominant one.
A cultural family.
Losing aspects of a culture.
Death of a culture.
What is Assimilation?
The process of taking in and fully accepting a culture.
The spread of an idea over time.
Death of a culture.
Merging into another culture, usually a dominant one.
What is Creolization?
The process in which two or more languages merge and create a new language.
A mother tongue.
The selected language of a country or region.
The spread of an idea over time.
What is a Lingua Franca?
A language that is adopted as a common language between different language speakers, often used during trading.
A standard language of a country or region.
In which ideas spread from area to area by ways of small towns, temporarily bypassing urban areas.
Assimilation to another culture.
What is Colonialism?
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country.
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Movement of people to different locations than their original one over time.
War.
What is Imperialism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country.
A country ruled by an emperor.
Development of a country economically.
What is a Monotheistic Religion?
Worship a single deity.
Worship more than one deity.
Ethnic religion.
Traditional religion.
What is a Polytheistic religion?
Worships more than one deity.
Worships one deity.
Ethnic religion.
Traditional religion.
Hearth of Hinduism?
Indus Valley 1500 years ago.
Jerusalem 2500 years ago.
Varanasi 1000 years ago.
Japan 3000 years ago.
Regions where Hinduism diffused?
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Northern Africa
South America
What is Syncretism?
The uniting or attempted uniting of different cultures, schools, or religions.
Uniting or combining.
The spread of an idea over time.
The place where a culture or religion originates.
Which religion does this temple belong to?
Hinduism
Buddhism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Which religion does this holy place belong to?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
What religion does this holy place belong to?
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Judaism
What religion does this holy place belong to?
Judaism
Hinduism
Islam
Christianity
Buddhism
What religion does this holy place belong to?
Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Buddhism
Hinduism
Hearth of Buddhism?
Region of Nepal south to the Ganges River area 2500 years ago.
Indus River Valley 2500 years ago.
Varanasi 1500 years ago.
Japan 3000 years ago.
Regions where Buddhism diffused?
Into Tibet in the north and into East Asia, common in Japan.
Southeast asia into Pakistan.
Northern Africa.
Northern Asia, common in China.
What is Zionism?
The movement and protection of the Jewish religion.
The movement and protection of the Buddhist religion.
A large movement of a religion back to a holy place.
Language protection.
Hearth of Judaism?
Southwest Asia 4000 years ago.
Southeast Asia 4000 years ago.
North Asia 4000 years ago.
South Asia 4000 years ago.
Regions where Judaism diffused?
European cities
North America
Israel
Japan
Canada
Hearth of Christianity?
Southeast Asia and Israel 3000 years ago.
Southwest Asia and Israel 3000 years ago.
North America 1500 years ago.
South America 2000 years ago.
Regions where Christianity diffused?
Western Europe, then worldwide during colonialism.
Eastern Europe, then worldwide during colonialism.
Northern Europe, then worldwide after colonialism.
Southern Europe, then worldwide after colonialism.
Christianity split into 2 sub-religions in the 1000's, and then split again in the 1400's. What are the sub-religions it split into?
Roman Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
Protestant
Lutheran
Baptist
Hearth of Islam?
Arabian peninsula 1500 years ago.
Southeast Asia 1500 years ago.
Pakistan 2000 years ago.
Jerusalem 3000 years ago.
Regions where Islam diffused?
Across Arabian peninsula, across North Africa, into Spain and also east into Southeast Asia.
Across Arabian peninsula, across North Africa, into Spain and also south into Southwest Asia.
Into Northern Europe, across Asia.
India to North Africa.
How does the government impact religion? Is it the same impact worldwide or does it depend on the region?
What is the difference between an Interfaith Boundary and an Intrafaith Boundary? What are some examples?
What is the difference between Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Extremism. What are some examples of where it is found?
What is secularism? What is an example of this? Why is it on the rise?
What is the difference between Ethnic and Universalizing religions? What are some examples?
How does pilgrimage affect the cultural and physical environment of holy places?
What is the difference between Centrifugal and Centripetal forces? What is an example of both?
How does language and culture relate to religion? What is an example?
