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AP Human Geography Unit 3 Review

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is considered a material culture trait?

a)

Language

b)

Religion

c)

Clothing

d)

Holidays

2.

What is an area within a city occupied by a distinctive minority culture called?

a)

Gender role

b)

Sense of place

c)

Ethnic neighborhood

d)

Centrifugal forces

3.

What has increased substantially over the second half of the 20th century regarding women?

a)

Indigenous communities

b)

Role of women in workforce

c)

Centrifugal forces

d)

Sense of place

4.

Which of the following is NOT a type of expansion diffusion?

a)

Contagious diffusion

b)

Hierarchical diffusion

c)

Stimulus diffusion

d)

Relocation diffusion

5.

What is an example of cultural divergence?

a)

Globalization

b)

Internet usage

c)

Amish communities preserving their culture

d)

Increasing use of English

6.

What is an example of a toponym?

a)

A religious text

b)

A historical event

c)

Osceola County, Florida

d)

A language family

7.

Which of the following is an example of syncretism?

a)

Strip malls

b)

Tex-Mex Food

c)

Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

d)

Western Wall in Jerusalem

8.

What is a cultural landscape?

a)

the combination of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, sequent

occupancy, traditional and postmodern architecture, and land use patterns

b)

the original settlers of an area (pre-invasion/colonialism) who have retained their culture apart from

the colonizers

c)

areas in which gender expression is either welcome or unwelcome

d)

a society with an advanced state of social development

possessing recordkeeping (writing), advanced cities (urbanization),

technology, specialized workers, complex institutions (government, religion)

9.

What is the term used to connotate attachment to and comfort in a particular place with a strong identity that is deeply felt by inhabitants?

a)

Sense of Place

b)

Centripetal Force

c)

Indigenous Community

d)

Cultural Hearth

10.

Select the CENTRIPETAL FORCES

a)

Common language

b)

Shared religion

c)

Cultural diversity

d)

Distrust of government

11.

Forces that divide a country are known as (a)   forces

12.

Time-space compression has allowed for what to happen more easily?

a)

Cultural Convergence

b)

Cultural Divergence

c)

Civilization

d)

Universalizing Religions

13.

Which best describes a lingua franca?

a)

Language mutually understood by people who speak different languages, usually for the purpose of trade

b)

Dominance of one culture over another, historically, often occurring as a result of colonization

c)

The development of a new cultural trait as a result of the blending of two distinct but interacting cultures

d)

The blending of cultures as a result of colonialism to create something new

14.

The type of expansion diffusion where nearly all individuals are affected as it spreads outwards is known as (a)   diffusion.

15.

What is being highlighted on the map?

a)

Cultural Hearths

b)

World Religions

c)

Conquest Theory

d)

Interfaith Boundaries

16.

Which religion is found predominantly in the region colored red?

a)

Hinduism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Christianity

d)

Islam

17.

Which religion began in South Asia and spread east?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Islam

c)

Christianity

d)

Hinduism

18.

Which best describes the Kurgan Conquest Theory?

a)

theorizes that the source of the Indo-European language

lay somewhere in the steppes of present-day Ukraine and Russia more than

5000 years ago and spread by conquerors on horseback who moved westward

b)

theorizes that the source of the Indo-European language

lay somewhere in the mountainous terrain of Anatolia in modern Turkey

between 7000 and 9000 years ago and spread with the diffusion of agriculture

c)

members share cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language/dialect, symbolic

systems (religion/mythology), rituals, cuisine, dressing styles, art, or physical appearance

d)

how a culture makes a place fit their identity by shaping the landscape to show what they believe and value

(buildings, statues, sacred sites, etc.)

19.

Select all of the universalizing religions.

a)

Christianity

b)

Buddhism

c)

Islam

d)

Judaism

e)

Hinduism

20.

What is animism?

a)

probably human’s oldest religion, pre-dating civilization and centered on

the belief that inanimate objects, such as mountains, rivers, and trees

possess spirits and should be revered

b)

religion founded by Abraham in Southwest Asia that is believed by

many to be the first monotheistic religion dedicated to serving one god

c)

maintaining a diversity of ethnic cultures within a community that are valued and respected for their unique

differences

d)

conflict within a single major faith, such as the different denominations of Christianity or the two

branches of Islam

21.

The world's largest religion is -

(a)  

22.

The world's fastest growing religion is -

(a)  

23.

The oldest universalizing religion is -

a)

Judaism

b)

Islam

c)

Hinduism

d)

Sikhism

24.

Which of the following is NOT part of the Indo-European Language Family?

a)

Arabic

b)

English

c)

Portuguese

d)

French

25.

Select all of the nonmaterial culture traits

a)

language

b)

music

c)

education systems

d)

public buildings

e)

art

26.

Which of the following is NOT an ethnicity?

a)

Hispanic

b)

German

c)

Japanese

d)

Asian

27.

Which religion's distribution is shown on the map?

a)

Islam

b)

Buddhism

c)

Sikhism

d)

Hinduism

28.
The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural: 
a)
diffusion
b)
simultaion
c)
adaptation
d)
movement
29.
Geographers usually categorize cultural diffusion into the two broad categories of 
a)
 Expansion and hierarchical
b)
Contagious and stimulus
c)
 Expansion and relocation
d)
 Migrant and hierarchical
30.

7.4 Cultural trends in things like music and fashion often begin in world cities and spread around the world through which process?

a)

hierarchical diffusion

b)

contagious diffusion

c)

stimulus diffusion

d)

relocation diffusion

31.

 Cultural landscape can be defined as

a)

the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region

b)

the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

c)

the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

d)

 the diversity of distinctive cultures within a particular geographic area

e)

a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities

32.

Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?

a)

a coral reef

b)

a stand of pine trees

c)

tropical jungle

d)

terraced fields of crops up a mountainside

e)

a glacier

33.

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?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Acculturation

c)

Possibilism

d)

Multiculturalism

e)

Syncretism

34.
A religion that is practiced by one particular culture group is called
a)
Ethnic religion
b)
Universalizing Religion
c)
Caste System 
d)
Hinduism
35.

The image shows a sacred space of which religion?

a)

Islam

b)

Buddhism

c)

Christianity

d)

Hinduism

36.

The image shows a sacred space that would be part of the cultural landscape of which religion?

a)

Hinduism

b)

Christianity

c)

Buddhism

d)

Islam

37.

The cultural landscape shown in the image relates most to which religion?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Islam

c)

Hinduism

d)

Sikhism

38.

Which best describes an ethnic religion?

a)

religions that do not actively seek converts and are generally found near the hearth or spread through

relocation diffusion

b)

religions that actively seek converts because they view themselves as offering belief systems of

universal applicability and appeal

c)

religions that are spread by both relocation and expansion diffusion throughout the world

d)

members share cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language/dialect, symbolic

systems (religion/mythology), rituals, cuisine, dressing styles, art, or physical appearance