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WorksheetsAP Human Geography: Unit 3 mini quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In which of the following countries is one most likely to find speakers whose native language belongs to the Uralic language family?
Libya
Cambodia
Kazakhstan
Portugal
Germany
Which of the following terms best describes the geographical boundary of one particular linguistic feature?
Language Border
Toponym
Choropleth interval
Linguistic hearth
Isogloss
Which of the following sacred places is most closely associated with animism?
Hagia Sophia
Ayers Rock
Sistine Chapel
Mecca
The Western Wall
Historically, culture diffusion patterns in the United States have tended to flow in which general direction?
East to West
West to East
North to South
South to North
Northwest to Southeast
A Hindu temple located in Texas is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?
Expansion
Hierarchical
Contagious
Relocation
Stimulus
The religious doctrine of ahimsa, which discourages violence against other living beings, is best associated with which of the following regions?
North Africa
Western Europe
Arabian Peninsula
Andes Mountains
Indian Subcontinent
The persistence of ethnic urban enclaves in major American cities could be cited as evidence to support all of the following phenomena EXCEPT...
Chain migration
Residential segregation
Structural assimilation
multiculturalism
multinucleated urban structure
Which of the following folk architecture styles is ideally suited for a diurnil climate?
New York Dutch house
Iroquois longhouse
Garrison house
Adobe house
Log cabin
Compared to popular cultures, folk cultures are...
More cosmopolitan
More homogeneous
More diffuse
More transitory
More contagious Culture
A dialect is best classified as which of the following?
Cultural complex
Cultural trait
Language branch
Language group
Language family
A Mormon church located in a rural area of northwestern Colorado is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?
Expansion
Relocation
Hierarchical
Maladaptive
Stimulus
Which of the following provides the clearest example of derelict landscape?
A gentrified, urban landscape
A rural, cultivated landscape
A suburban, residential landscape
An abandoned, industrial landscape
A preserved, sacred landscape
A vernacular house style, common throughout the American South during the 19th century, that featured a covered breezeway situated between two enclosed cabins is known as a...
Shotgun house
Norman cottage
Plantation house
Adobe house
Dogtrot house
Individuals' cognitive abilities to orient themselves in and navigate through familiar spaces are often aided by points of reference and points of intersection, which are respectively known as...
landmarks and edges
nodes and paths
landmarks and nodes
districts and nodes
edges and districts
A new fashion trend originated in New York City that diffuse to Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo before reaching rural areas of New York state would be an example of which of the following kinds of diffusion?
Contagious
Hierarchical
Uniform
Relocation
Stimulus
The Sunbelt and New England are two examples of which kind of culture region?
Functional
Formal
Vernacular
Municipal
Transnational
An immigrant who selectively adopts certain customs of the dominant host society in order to advance socioeconomically, while still retaining much of his or her native customs, practices, and beliefs, best illustrates the concept of...
Acculturation
Maladaptive behavior
Assimilation
Ethnocentrism
All of the above
A highly simplified language developed between linguistically heterogeneous groups for the purpose of basic inter-group communication is known as which of the following?
Creole
Pidgin
Lingua-franca
Bilingualism
Standard dialect
All of the following belong to the Indo-European language family EXCEPT...
Hindi
Bengali
Farsi
Mandarin
Dutch
A minaret is an architectural feature common to places of worship in which of the following regions?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
