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WorksheetsLanguage, Culture and Migration
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
How could the document below help preserve a dying language?
it demonstrates official government support
when people fill out documents they show they are literate
people who speak minority languages pay lower taxes
the language on the document is widely used on the internet
This chart is evidence that English is a
pidgin language
official language
dialect
lingua franca
French Creole is a ____________ that combined two simplified languages to form a lingua franca.
pidgin language
official language
logograms
isolated language
Which are the two language FAMILIES with the largest amount of speakers?
Sino - Tibetan + Dravidian
Austroasiatic + Austronesian
Japanese + Indo - European
Altaic + Uralic
Indo - European + Sino - Tibetan
Northwest
The spread of Christianity
A regional variation of a language including distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation of words is called a(n)
vigorous language.
isogloss.
developing language.
dialect.
official language.
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous , rural group.
Custom
Folk
Popular
Habit
large; incorporates heterogeneous populations; urban; experiences quickly changing traits
Folk Culture
Popular Culture
Local Culture
Material Culture
Many religions, when they expand into a new region, begin to incorporate some of the elements of the previous religious customs of the new adherents. This process is called
globalization
syncretism
acculturation
assimilation
conversion
Which is an example of a non-material aspect of culture?
church building
religious decoration
burning of incense
an altar
The ________ of a group of people includes the things they construct.
non-material culture
folk culture
material culture
pop culture
Which of the following is the belief that one's own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
Ethos
Ethnocentrism
Prejudice
Stereotyping
Acculturation
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 state
Culture hearth
A person living in Town A moves three times, as shown in the diagram, and settles in Town D. This is an example of
Chain migration
Step migration
Distance decay
Intervening obstacle
Intervening opportunity
All of the following are examples of forced migration EXCEPT
the Trail of Tears in the early 19th century
the Atlantic slave trade
the California gold rush in the mid-19th century
the Irish Potato Famine from 1846 to 1850
the Japanese interment camps during World War II
You are planning to move from your hometown to Nashville. Along the way, you stop in Auburn, Alabama to visit a relative and fall in love with the city! You decide to stay and make Auburn your new home. This is an example of
intervening opportunity
distance decay
involuntary migration
push-pull factors
transhumance
The nineteenth-century emigration of a large number of Swedes from a particular region of Sweden to Isanti County, Minnesota, as a result of communications from friends and relatives who preceded them there is an example of
brain drain
chain migration
net migration
internal migration
counterurbanizationn
Which of the following is the primary reason people migrate.
Economic opportunity
Cultural oppression
Overpopulation
pollution
Family
(a) is the movement of people outside of a country(nonnatives) into a country to permanently settle there.
