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Cultures Unit Vocabulary

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

refers collectively to all of the elements that characterize the way of life shared by a group of people

a)

culture

b)

cultural landscape

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

monarchy

2.

crop or animal farming

a)

producers

b)

consumers

c)

cultural landscape

d)

agriculture

3.

a family unit that may include parents, children, grandparents, adn other family members that often live with or near each other

a)

nuclear family

b)

extended family

c)

social structure

d)

socialism

4.

an economic system in which the government owns most basic industries such as transportation, power, communications, banking and health, but non-basic businesses are privately owned

a)

capitalism

b)

direct democracy

c)

socialism

d)

dictatorship

5.

products that are made to be sold

a)

agriculture

b)

technology

c)

goods

d)

economy

6.

people who buy goods and services

a)

producers

b)

monarchs

c)

consumers

d)

dictators

7.

a system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth

a)

economy

b)

social structure

c)

socialism

d)

capitalism

8.

behaviors that are characteristic of a group of people such as language, skills, or customs, that are passed on from one generation to the next

a)

cultural diffusion

b)

cultural traits

c)

universal cultures

d)

cultural landscape

9.

work done or duties performed for other people

a)

consumers

b)

acculturation

c)

monarchy

d)

services

10.

a system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country

a)

dictatorship

b)

monarchy

c)

direct democracy

d)

representative democracy

11.

the complete transformation of one culture to the ideals and characteristics of another culture

a)

assimilation

b)

acculturation

c)

cultural particulars

d)

constitution

12.

a ruler who has complete power over a country

a)

government

b)

president

c)

dictator

d)

Captain Underpants

13.

a system of authoritarian government that is typically headed by a king or a queen who inherits the throne by birth

a)

representative democracy

b)

dictatorship

c)

monarchy

d)

socialism

14.

a set of laws that defines a country's basic values and limits the powers of the government

a)

constitution

b)

communism

c)

cultural universals

d)

social structure

15.

a system of government in which the people participate individually in decision-making

a)

acculturation

b)

direct democracy

c)

dictator

d)

representative democracy

16.

the system within society that establishes and enforces the laws

a)

constitution

b)

government

c)

democracy

d)

culture

17.

the movement of some customs and ideas from one culture to another

a)

acculturation

b)

cultural particular

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

communism

18.

The practical use of scientific skills and knowledge

a)

nuclear family

b)

economy

c)

technology

d)

agriculture

19.

an economic system in which the people and privately owned companies own both basic and non-basic business and industry

a)

socialism

b)

capitalism

c)

commuinism

d)

monarchy

20.

a family unit that includes a mother, a father, and their children

a)

producers

b)

cultural landscape

c)

consumers

d)

nuclear family

21.

a landscape that has been altered by humans and reflects the their culture

a)

cultural landscape

b)

cultural traits

c)

agriculture

d)

goods

22.

work done or duties performed for other people

a)

services

b)

economy

c)

social structure

d)

technology

23.

the ways on which people within a culture are organized into smaller groups

a)

consumers

b)

cultural landscape

c)

socialists

d)

social structure

24.

traits that appear in one form or another in all cultures

a)

cultural particulars

b)

cultural universals

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

communism

25.

a political system in which the central government controls all aspects of the citizens' lives including all business and industry

a)

communism

b)

monarchy

c)

constitution

d)

democratic government

26.

the specific form that a cultural universal takes on in individual societies or groups of people. For example, if the universal is music, the particular might be Country music or Raggae

a)

cultural particulars

b)

cultural landscape

c)

social culture

d)

cultural diffusion

27.

people who make products that are used by other people

a)

consumers

b)

services

c)

goods

d)

producers

28.

people who use goods and services

a)

producers

b)

consumers

c)

dictators

d)

monarchs