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Chapter 4 Culture

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The way of life of a group of people who share similar traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.

a)

Culture

b)

Ethnic Group

c)

Language Family

d)

Connectivity

2.

group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin

a)

Culture

b)

Ethnic Group

c)

Language Family

d)

Connectivity

3.

Cultural diffusion is the __________ of culture traits from one culture to another

a)

spreading

b)

elimination

c)

differences

d)

dilution

4.

A division of the earth in which people share a culture

a)

Culture Region

b)

Culture Hearth

c)

Cultural Diffusion

d)

Globalization

5.

A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward

a)

Culture Region

b)

Culture Hearth

c)

Cultural Diffusion

d)

Globalization

6.

The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point where they are worldwide

a)

Culture Region

b)

Culture Hearth

c)

Cultural Diffusion

d)

Globalization

7.

Movement of people from place to place

a)

Migration

b)

Birth Rate

c)

Death Rate

d)

Doubling Time

8.

A boundary developed to separate groups with religious, ideological, language, or other differences

a)

Natural Boundary

b)

Cultural Boundary

c)

Geometric Boundary

9.
__________ can lead to a mix of behaviors and ideas, but it can also lead to conflict.
a)
ethnic groups
b)
culture
c)
cultural diffusion
d)
cultural diversity
10.
The spread of traits from one region to another is called __________.
a)
ethnic groups
b)
culture
c)
cultural diffusion
d)
cultural diversity
11.

A group's cultural landscape includes any changes to its environment.

a)

false

b)

true

12.

This restaurant in Ketchikan, Alaska best demonstrates what concept?

a)

Due to population growth, small towns are changing into urban centers.

b)

Due to ethnocentrism, American culture is spreading globally.

c)

Due to migration, food from Texas and New York arrived in Alaska.

d)

Due to cultural diffusion, ethnic foods change the cultural landscape far from their hearth.

13.

Which statement reflects popular culture?

a)

It is found in a homogeneous population.

b)

It has traits that are quick changing and diffuse rapidly.

c)

It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.

d)

It is more static than folk culture.

14.

Folk culture is best described as

a)

customs found in large societies

b)

traditions that rapidly move across countries

c)

destroying the uniform landscape

d)

customs that travel slowly and are often based in small rural areas

15.

A custom is

a)

represented ONLY in someone's religious life

b)

an repetitive action that eventually defines a group of people

c)

represented in folk cultures throughout the world but absent in popular culture

d)

individual actions that occur over and over

16.

Popular culture often expands through

a)

migration or relocation diffusion

b)

the building of roads and internet technologies

c)

hierarchical diffusion

d)

adoption of electricity

17.

Which is NOT part of material culture?

a)

Language

b)

Food

c)

Clothing

d)

Shelter

18.

Which of the following is an example of a terroir?

a)

Buying the latest Audi car for a cross-country vacation

b)

A Big Mac from McDonald's for lunch

c)

Roasting food over a fire due to living near forests

d)

Migrating to a new country for economic and political reasons

19.

Folk culture is

a)

Homogenous

b)

Rural

c)

Slowly changing / stagnant

d)

All of the above

20.

Folk music usually

a)

Is created by well-known artists

b)

Has anonymous authors over generations

c)

Made to generate profit

d)

Has urban hearths

21.

Popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit

a)

Cultural assimilation

b)

Cultural imperialism

c)

Cultural syncretism

d)

Cultural appropriation

22.

An example of hierarchical diffusion

a)

Migrant bringing their food culture to the US

b)

McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef

c)

A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend

d)

Finding out about a new song from your cousin

23.

Popular Culture

a)

Cultural traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies, Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

b)

cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities, Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

24.

Material Culture

a)

the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people

b)

a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits

25.

Nonmaterial Culture

a)

the beliefs practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people

b)

the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people

26.

Placelessness

a)

The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next

b)

notion that what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at a local scale, and vice versa

27.

Folk-Housing Regions

a)

region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area

b)

Folk-Housing Regions

region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area

Diffusion Routes

the spatial trajectory through which the cultural traits or other phenomena spread

28.
What is culture? 
a)
A shared way of life
b)
The spread of ideas
c)
a short well known expression 
d)
a custom prohibiting or restricting a practice 
29.
What do you call something passed down from generation to generation?
a)
Art
b)
Literature
c)
Tradition
d)
Culture
30.
three important pieces of any culture are
a)
language, values, and religion
b)
natural resources, climate, & landforms
c)
economy, population, & writing
d)
technology, transportation, & economy
31.

The social unit primarily responsible for teaching the customs and traditions of a culture is

a)

the schools

b)

the family

c)

the army

d)

the government

32.

A family that includes several generations.

a)

extended family

b)

nuclear family

c)

social structure

d)

cultural landscape

33.

The parts of a people's environment that they have shaped

a)

acculturation

b)

cultural landscape

c)

cultural diffusion

d)

culture shock

34.

Cultural diffusion is the __________ of culture traits from one culture to another

a)

spreading

b)

elimination

c)

differences

d)

dilution

35.

A division of the earth in which people share a culture

a)

Culture Region

b)

Culture Hearth

c)

Cultural Diffusion

d)

Globalization

36.

A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward

a)

Culture Region

b)

Culture Hearth

c)

Cultural Diffusion

d)

Globalization

37.

Movement of people from place to place

a)

Migration

b)

Birth Rate

c)

Death Rate

d)

Doubling Time

38.

Which statement reflects popular culture?

a)

It is found in a homogeneous population.

b)

It has traits that are quick changing and diffuse rapidly.

c)

It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.

d)

It is more static than folk culture.