WorksheetsChapters 4 and 5 Review
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A geographical boundary of a language feature such as where Coke becomes soda or pop.
a)
isoline
b)
lingua franca
c)
language family
d)
isogloss
2.
The country of Canada recognizes two official languages, English and...
a)
German
b)
French
c)
Spanish
d)
Japanese
3.
A regional variety of a language that is distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
a)
denglish
b)
lingua franca
c)
literary tradition
d)
dialect
4.
The country of Nigeria recognizes which language as an official language?
a)
English
b)
Spanish
c)
Swahili
d)
French
5.
The body of customary beliefs and material traits that constitute a people's tradition.
a)
culture
b)
habit
c)
assimilation
d)
culture trait
6.
Which language has become the world's primary lingua franca?
a)
Spanish
b)
Mandarin Chinese
c)
German
d)
English
7.
Which of the provinces of Canada threatened to secede due to its use of a different language?
a)
Quebec
b)
Manitoba
c)
Saskatchewan
d)
Alberta
8.
Folk cultures are spread primarily by
a)
Hierarchical diffusion
b)
contagious diffusion
c)
Relocation diffusion
d)
epidemic diffusion
9.
What is the definition of folk culture?
a)
Customs practiced in large heterogeneous groups
b)
Customs practiced by small homogeneous groups
c)
Southern people culture
d)
Culture in the middle east
10.
What is the definition of Pop Culture ?
a)
Oral transmission of a culture
b)
Practices and beliefs that have national or global acceptance
c)
shared experiences that are transferred from generation to generation
d)
Writing books to share a culture
11.
Taboo definition
a)
Something that is prohibited or restricted
b)
Not able to be seen threw certain things
c)
Lean or muscular
d)
Very eager
12.
What is a culture's hearth?
a)
its center of trade
b)
its center of the economy
c)
its center of innovation
d)
its center of production
13.
The languages of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Romania are all of which language branch?
a)
Indo-Iranian
b)
Romance
c)
Germanic
d)
Balto-Slavic
14.
The combination of the German and English languages is called...
a)
Denglish
b)
Spanglish
c)
Franglais
d)
Pig Latin
15.
How many languages in the world are almost extinct?
a)
1000
b)
25
c)
500
d)
90
16.
Which of the following was an extinct language but has since been revived?
a)
Greek
b)
Hebrew
c)
Gothic
d)
Gaelic
17.
What does it mean for a language to be extinct?
a)
Nobody speaks it anymore.
b)
The dinosaurs spoke it.
c)
Nobody likes it anymore.
d)
It's an ugly language.
18.
Isolated Language
a)
A language discovered by research
b)
A language that is no longer used
c)
A language not related to any language family
d)
A language related to a popular ancestral language
19.
A language that is used by government for conducting business is called a(n)...
a)
official language
b)
standard language
c)
isolated language
d)
pidgin language
20.
A common language used for trade by two groups that speak different languages is a...
a)
proto-tongue
b)
official language
c)
standard language
d)
lingua franca
21.
The 5 Themes of Geography include location, place, movement, region and...
a)
language
b)
politics
c)
culture
d)
human-environment interaction
22.
The belief that the physical environment causes social development is...
a)
possibilism
b)
creole
c)
environmental determinism
d)
cultural determinism
23.
Which country today has the largest number of people?
a)
China
b)
India
c)
United States
d)
Russia
24.
The large scale emigration by talented people from a source is called...
a)
forced migration
b)
chain migration
c)
brain drain
d)
migration transition
25.
People for whom a particular language is their first language are called...
a)
multilingual
b)
linguistic minorities
c)
native speakers
d)
creole speakers
26.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered by Napoleon's Army and allowed us to read...
a)
Egyptian hieroglyphics
b)
Ancient Greek
c)
Ancient Sanscrit
d)
Chinese Ideograms
27.
What is the official language of the United States of America?
a)
English
b)
American English
c)
Spanish
d)
There is none
28.
Contagious Diffusion:
a)
When An Idea Spreads Quickly From Person to Person
b)
When An Idea Spreads From Top Down/Bottom Up
c)
When An Idea Spreads By Being Innovated and Made Better
d)
When An Idea Spreads By Being Moved To New Place
29.
Hierarchical diffusion
a)
The spread of an idea from persons of authority or power to
b)
The spread of an ideo through physical movement of people
c)
Rapid widespread of a characteristic through the population
d)
spread of a part of an idea to create an innovative product
30.
"A common language between speakers whose native languages are different" is the definition of...
a)
A pidgin
b)
A creole
c)
A patois
d)
A lingua franca
31.
What branch of the Indo-European language family does English belong to?
a)
Germanic
b)
Romance
c)
Slavic
d)
Indo-Iranian
32.
Label biggest to smallest: language branch, language family, language group
a)
Language family, Language branch, Language group
b)
Language group, Language branch, Language family
c)
Language group, Language family, Language branch
d)
Language branch, Language group, Language family
33.
Define a language BRANCH
a)
collection of languages related through a common ancestor
b)
languages within a family related through a common ancestor
c)
languages within a branch that share a common origin
d)
2 or more languages that sound similar to one another
34.
Define language Family
a)
languages that are spoken at home by the family
b)
A language unrelated to any other
c)
A collection of languages that share a common origin
d)
The form of a language used for official government business
35.
Multilingual states have...
a)
one language
b)
more than two languages
c)
two or more languages
36.
Monolingual States
a)
Countries with one language spoken
b)
Countries with more than one language spoken
c)
Story telling to communicate language
d)
Pidgin language
37.
What is a pidgin language?
a)
a mixture of languages
b)
a simplified version of a language
c)
an endangered language
d)
an extinct language
38.
What is a creole language?
a)
a very simplified version of a language
b)
a language that is no longer spoken
c)
a language that is used for international communications
d)
a language that is a mixture of two or more languages
39.
If you lived in Germany what would you call the the game shown below?
a)
soccer
b)
lacrosse
c)
football
d)
field hockey
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