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Unit 5 Vocabulary

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

the state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

a)

Ethnicity

b)

Acculturation

c)

Assimilation

d)

Diffusion

2.

The Process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas is known as what? 

a)
Acculturation
b)
Cultural Diffusion 
c)
Cultural Landscape 
d)
Culture
3.
—A group’s skills, customs, and ways of doing things is known as what? 
a)
Culture
b)
Technology
c)
Cultural Trait 
d)
Acculturation
4.
The way of life of a group of people is known as what? 
a)
Culture
b)
Acculturation
c)
Cultural Diffusion 
d)
Cultural Trait 
5.

when an individual/ group replaces most of their home culture with a new culture.

a)

Cultural Adaptations

b)

Assimilate

c)

Socialization

d)

Acculturation

6.

Judging other cultures by your own

a)

Ethnocentrism

b)

Acculturation

c)

Subsistence

d)

Carrying Capacity

7.
A Hearth is 
a)
The region where something is popular
b)
The region where something did not spread
c)
The region that received the idea
d)
The region where the idea began
8.

This is an example of what kind of diffusion?

The cultural diffusion from when over two million persecuted Jewish people fled Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914 to live in Britain or the United States.

a)

relocation diffusion

b)

stimulus diffusion

c)

hierarchical diffusion

d)

contagious diffusion

9.

In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in

a)

more developed countries.

b)

less developed countries.

c)

formerly communist countries.

d)

countries with large rural populations.

e)

Latin America and Africa.

10.

What type of Cultural Diffusion?

a)

Stimulus

b)

Relocation

c)

Hieararchial

d)

Contagious

11.

What type of Cultural Diffusion?

a)

Stimulus

b)

Relocation

c)

Hieararchial

d)

Contagious

12.

What type of Cultural Diffusion?

a)

Stimulus

b)

Relocation

c)

Hierarchal

d)

Contagious

13.

A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they are spread

a)

Cultural Hearth

b)

Minority Religion

c)

An Ethnic Group

d)

Universalizing Religion

14.

The Idea That cultures are converging and becoming more alike

a)

Globalization

b)

Extinct language

c)

Cultural Divergence

d)

Cultural Convergence

15.

This type of diffusion involves a wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious disease, equally moving throughout space.

a)

Hierarchical Diffusion

b)

Stimulus diffusion

c)

Contagious Diffusion

d)

Relocation Diffusion

16.

This type of Diffusion happens when a specific trait is not adopted in its original form, but the underlying idea is accepted and the cultural trait is still adopted

a)

Hierarchical Diffusion

b)

Stimulus Diffusion

c)

Relocation diffusion

d)

contagious diffusion

17.

This type of Diffusion occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland

a)

Relocation Diffusion

b)

Expansion Diffusion

18.

This type of diffusion occurs when ideas or practices leap from one influential person to another

a)

relocation diffusion

b)

Hierarchical diffusion

c)

contagious diffusion

d)

Stimulus diffusion

19.
Process of cultures combining and becoming more alike?
a)
Cultural Convergence 
b)
Cultural Diffusion 
c)
Cultural Divergence 
20.

The political division of North and South Korea that has caused separation of the Korean culture is an example of ?

a)

Cultural Convergence

b)

Cultural Divergence

c)

Acculturation

d)

Assimilation

21.

Religions that belong to certain ethnic groups. Local religions are found in Africa, Japan, Australia, and the Americas.

a)

Sikhism

b)

Islam

c)

Indigenous Religions

d)

Confucianism

22.
________________ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits. 
a)
Material 
b)
Popular
c)
Folk 
d)
Ethnic
23.
ASSIMILATION OCCURS WHEN 
a)
A GROUP IS KEPT OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM CULTURE
b)
A GROUP IS NOT MAINSTREAMED INTO THE MAINSTREAM CULTURE
c)
A GROUP IS INCORPORATED INTO THE MAINSTREAM CULTURE
d)
NONE OF THESE
24.
Define 'Multicultural'. 
a)
A word to describe society of people from different cultures and races where all the cultures are respected. 
b)
A society of people from different cultures and races that merge into a homogeneous society. 
c)
A group of people of a different race from the main group of a country. 
d)
A person from a foreign country who may stay and work in a county for their personal safety. 
25.

culture traits that are well known and widely accepted

a)

culture region

b)

culture trait

c)

popular culture

d)

cultural diversity

e)

cultural diffusion