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WorksheetsUnit 3 vocab/content review
Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 2hrs 24mins
(a) is the shared experiences, characteristics, and activities of a group of people with a common heritage.
(a) culture is characterized as being traditional, and mostly concentrated around one homogenous group.
(a) culture is characterize by being modern and spread through media to heterogenous groups.
Which scenario best explains the process of assimilation?
A family immigrates to a new country, settles near others from their homeland, and conducts most of their day-to-day activities within their ethnic neighborhood.
Despite the large number of historic churches in France, many French identify as nonreligious and believe that religion is a private matter.
The island of Mauritius has large populations of Christians, Hindus, and Muslims. The constitution of Mauritius prohibits discrimination and protects freedom of religion.
The American ' government educated Native American children in American-style boarding schools. All of the children were taught English, and girls were taught how to be homemakers.
Hinduism diffused from India to Bali, where it blended with traditional Balinese beliefs to create a form of Hinduism unique to Bali.
Which of the following is the belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
Ethos
Prejudice
Ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
Acculturation
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
Large heterogenous groups
Indigenous groups
Groups that have little interaction with other groups
Small heterogenous groups
Groups living in isolated areas
Which of the following describes the process of creolization?
The mix of Native American, African, and European influences to create new cultural forms
The representations of Spanish, Portuguese, and French linguistic culture on the landscape of Latin America
The layering of the European cultural landscape over the Native American landscape
The exchange of crops and animals between the Old World and the New World
The adoption of Native American toponyms for place-names of European settlements
The term “cultural diffusion” refers to the
modification of Earth’s surface by human actions
integration of behavioral traits within a group
spread of an idea or innovation from its source
relationship between human cultures and their physical environment
assimilation of a minority culture into the host society
Cultural landscape can be defined as
the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region
the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment
the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans
the diversity of distinctive cultures within a particular geographic area
a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities
As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan. Which of the following terms best describes this blending of cultural traditions?
Assimilation
Acculturation
Possibilism
Multiculturalism
Syncretism
Which of the following terms best describes the food preferences, architecture, and land-use practices found in a particular region?
Cultural relativism
Ethnocentrism
Culture traits
Unitary states
Culture hearths
Which of the following best exemplifies the diffusion of popular culture throughout the world in contemporary society?
The increasing popularity of a fashion trend that originates in a large city, such as New York, and spreads to small rural towns
The spread of an Internet meme via social media applications
The spread of a religion through the migration of adherents of the religion
The increasing popularity of a new band that spends a year touring cities around the world
The spread of new slang that becomes widely used in government-funded schools
The state of California, often considered a hearth of environmental laws, will be the first state to ban plastic straws. Which of the following statements best describes the likely spread of this environmental practice?
This practice will likely spread via hierarchical diffusion when the president of the United States signs an executive order banning plastic straws in all states.
This practice will likely spread via social media and stimulus diffusion when other states enact identical laws banning plastic straws.
As regional news organizations report on the ban, this practice will likely spread through contagious diffusion only to western states adjacent to California.
Strong lobbying by the plastics industry will likely curtail the diffusion of the ban, and this practice will be limited to California.
Similar environmental laws will likely spread through stimulus diffusion to other states via political activism.
Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?
Coastal wetland
Cloud forest
Stand of mangrove trees
Eroded shoreline
Adobe ruins
Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?
Cultural ecology
Nonmaterial culture
Environmental determinism
Physical environment
Built environment
Which of the following is most accurate with regard to food preferences and taboos?
Food preferences are stronger than taboos as seen by the high consumption of beef on the Deccan Plateau.
Food preferences and taboos have little influence on the diet in Arabia and Southeast Asia.
Some foods are avoided for religious or cultural reasons even at the expense of a balanced diet.
Food preferences and taboos show little variability between cultures.
Low hog production in China demonstrates an avoidance of pork by the Chinese.
Which of the following best explains how immigration affects the cultural landscape of religion?
Immigrants often retain their religion during the process of acculturation, contributing to religious diversity within the cultural landscape of the receiving country.
Immigrant communities fuse their own religion with the dominant religion in the receiving country to create a syncretic religion.
Ethnic religions do not diffuse past their hearth, so immigrants must adopt a new religion when relocating to a new country.
Immigrants bring their religion with them when they relocate, and their religion quickly spreads to the overwhelming majority of citizens in the receiving country.
Immigrants’ original religions disappear as immigrants fully assimilate into their new culture and adopt the dominant religion of the area.
Which of the following best explains the Internet’s homogenizing effect on global language patterns?
The English language is widely used on the Internet.
Social media applications commonly support dozens of different languages.
Many governments censor citizens’ Internet access.
An increasing number of Internet users communicate exclusively through emojis.
The Internet accelerates communication so that people from different cultures can interact quickly and easily.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Hinduism?
It uses human and animal images in its sacred spaces.
Pilgrims bathe in holy rivers
Religious functions most likely take place at home within the family.
Sacred
places are established by tradition.
It is a universalizing religion.
Which of the following is true of popular culture?
It is practiced among a homogeneous group of people in the world.
It is more static than folk culture.
It incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to a wide variety of places.
It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.
It promotes regional diversity.
Which of the following best defines Carl Sauer’s concept of cultural landscape?
It is the way people landscape their yards in different parts of the world.
It is the way houses of worship are built.
It is the outcome of interactions between humans and their natural environment.
It is a shared set of meanings and symbolic practices.
It is the human adaptation to Earth’s physical environment.
Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of
pidgin languages
standard language
creole language
official language
lingua franca
Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names?
Isonyms
Phenonyms
Acronyms
Toponyms
Loconyms
The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States, particularly in South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida. It is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects. One can describe Gullah as a
creolized language
lingua franca
Sino-Tibetan dialect
language family
linguistic branch of the Niger-Congo family
The Indo-European language family includes the major languages of Europe and those dominant in all the following regions EXCEPT
Russia
Northern India
Iran
Central Asia
Eastern and Southern Australia
Which of the following best accounts for the universal appeal of blue jeans?
Diffusion of popular culture
Adoption of unique folk culture
Impact of high income on clothing habits
Lack of barriers in communist countries
Need for durable clothing
(a) can be defined as physical objects that personify a culture; such as art, architecture, and food.
(a) can be defined as non-physical things that personify a culture; language, traditions, and religion.
Dislike or fear of people from other countries/backgrounds is called (a) .
A (a) religion is one that actively seeks converts.
A (a) religion does not actively seek new converts, and is focused around on group of people.
A (a) religion is one that believes in only one god.
A (a) religion is one the believes in more than one god.
Select the Abrahamic religions:
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Which language tree contains Chinese and it's several dialects?
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Niger–Congo
Austronesian
Afro-Asiatic
Which language tree is by far the largest with the most amount of speakers worldwide?
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Niger–Congo
Austronesian
Afro-Asiatic
Select the listed Romance languages:
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
English
(a) ; or a native/original group to an area
Match the following:
lingua franca
A common language used for trade; used by people with different native languages
creole language
A hybrid language; usually a mix of an indigenous and colonizer language
pidgin language
A common language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary.
A language established by law as the primary language for communication within a country is called a (a)
Match the place of worship to its religion:
church
Christianity
mosque
Islam
synagogue
Judaism
assimilation
adapting to a new culture while losing nearly all of one's original culture
acculturation
adapting to a new culture while keeping some or most of your original culture
syncretism
the blending of two or more cultures
(a) happens when a group dissociates from other cultures to preserve their own culture.
(a) happens when two cultures interact and influence each other.
(a) is what we call it when different cultural groups replace each other in the same space over time.
A (a) is a location/structure what people routinely go to for prayer/worship (ex. churches, mosques, etc.)
A (a) is a geographic location that is believed to have a special connection to a faith (ex. Kaaba).
Which of the following best explains how Christianity became the dominant religion in the Philippines?
Christianity was brought to the Philippines through relocation diffusion when the Spanish colonized the Philippines in the sixteenth century.
Christianity entered the Philippines through the ministry of representatives from the Russian Orthodox church.
A secondary hearth for Christianity arose in the Philippines in the twelfth century, and since that time Christianity has remained the dominant religion in the Philippines.
Christianity entered the Philippines through contagious diffusion because of its proximity to Indonesia.
Export-oriented logging companies from Japan brought Christianity to the Philippines during the twentieth century.
Which of the following is the belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
Ethos
Prejudice
Ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
Acculturation
Identify which of the following concepts or processes is symbolized by the pagoda in the image.
Acculturation
Material culture
Assimilation
Cultural trait
Syncretism
Comparing both photographs, each image shows the significance of temples, religious statuary, and iconography on the
cultural hearth
ethnic culture
traditional toponyms
cultural landscape
colonial architecture
Which of the following statements explains the regional location in the United States where the figures shown in the image are most likely part of the cultural landscape?
The Northeast, because residents are influenced by British Protestantism.
The Southeast, because residents are influenced by traditional religions from West Africa.
The Great Plains, because residents are influenced by Native American traditional religions.
The Southwest, because residents are influenced by Spanish Catholicism.
The Northwest, because residents are influenced by Russian Orthodoxy.
Which of the following features is most useful for describing the cultural landscape shown in the image?
The ethnicity of the people in the image
The dragon that the people are holding
The French language on the banner hanging from the building
The density of the crowd
The clothing of the people participating in the parade
Which of the following geographic concepts can be identified using information evident in the image?
Cultural diffusion
Acculturation
Forced migration
Sequent occupance
Cultural relativism
Identify the cultural trait that influences the architecture of the cultural landscape shown in the image.
Ethnicity
Language
Taboos
Religion
Gender
Based on the two images, which of the following statements best explains the geographic process that took place as Islam diffused from its hearth?
Islam is confined to the Middle East because it is an ethnic religion that appeals to only one group of people in one region.
The diffusion of Islam has resulted in a cultural landscape in China that has been radically altered to reflect Islamic architecture.
Islam diffused hierarchically to the west through conquest and to the east through relocation via missionaries along trade routes.
The diffusion of Islam has had a minimal impact on regions to the west and east of its hearth in the Middle East.
The universalizing nature of Islam has allowed it to become worldwide in scope and the dominant religion in North America and Europe.
Chinese porcelain was highly valued in Europe for its beauty, style, and durability. However, imported porcelain from China was very expensive. Crafters in Germany and England developed new methods of making porcelain using feldspar and bone rather than the kaolin that was used in China. This new porcelain was viewed as having similar quality to Chinese porcelain, and the new methods continued to be used in Europe.
This example describes what type of diffusion?
Relocation diffusion, because the Chinese brought their porcelain to Europe
Stimulus diffusion, because the Europeans adapted a Chinese concept to fit their own needs
Contagious diffusion, because people throughout the world adopted the use of porcelain
Hierarchical diffusion, because only the wealthy could afford porcelain
Expansion diffusion, because the porcelain-making
As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan. Which of the following terms best describes this blending of cultural traditions?
Assimilation
Acculturation
Possibilism
Multiculturalism
Syncretism
Which of the following terms best describes the spatial effects of the Internet on the global diffusion of culture?
Time-space convergence
Complementarity
Cultural divergence
Push factor
Pull factors
Which of the following best explains the practice of placing indigenous children in boarding schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
The schools were intended to promote multiculturalism by introducing European culture to indigenous youth.
Many schools appropriated indigenous culture by using tribal names for sports teams.
The schools represented a traditional cultural trait of many indigenous societies.
The schools were intended to blend indigenous and European cultures through syncretism.
The schools were intended to diffuse Christianity and assimilate indigenous youth into European culture
The spread of the use of chopsticks into Southeast Asian countries with the influx of Chinese immigrants is an example of which of the following concepts?
Stimulus diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Assimilation
Acculturation
Relocation diffusion
Toponyms in southern California reflect which of the following?
Cultural heritage of the settlers
Importance of time-space convergence
Growing influence of globalization
Significance of locational theory
Role of popular culture in American society
(a) occurs when there is adaptation between two cultures, but most aspects of the indigenous culture remain intact.
(a) occurs when there is adaptation between two cultures, but few or no aspects of the indigenous culture remain intact.
(a) occurs when there is interaction between two cultures, and a new culture grows as a result.
What part of the world is highlighted here?
(a)
What religion does not eat pork?
(a)
What religion does not eat beef?
(a)
What religion is most widely practiced in the Middle East?
(a)
What religion is most widely practiced in South Asia?
(a)
What religion is most widely practiced in Southeast & East Asia?
(a)
What religion is most widely practiced in Europe & the Americas?
(a)
The sign shown in the image includes an Internet address for the county government. Explain how the sign illustrates the cultural tensions between traditional languages and English.
The Internet spreads the use of English as a global lingua franca, but the Internet is also a place where traditional languages can be communicated and thrive.
English is used for business and commerce on the Internet, while traditional languages such as Gaelic can only be heard in poems and music recordings but not written on the Internet.
The Internet is produced only in English; as a result, many traditional languages disappear due to the dominance of English-language communication.
Many countries ban the use of English-language Internet sites in an effort to resist the forces of globalization and protect their traditional languages.
English is being used less outside of the United Kingdom. Speaking a traditional language as a first language has become the norm in former British colonies.
