WorksheetsCP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 3 TEST
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What is the best definition of 'folk culture'?
Culture that is only found in urban areas
Culture that is spread rapidly through mass media
Culture practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation
Culture that is adopted by people from many different backgrounds
Which of the following is a characteristic of a universalizing religion?
It does not encourage conversion
It is based on ethnic heritage
It is practiced only in one country
It seeks to appeal to people globally, not just those in a specific location
Which of the following best describes the process by which a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture, while denying their own?
Assimilation
Acculturation
Cultural divergence
Ethnocentrism
A neighborhood in a city where people of the same ethnicity cluster together and maintain their cultural traditions is known as a(n)
Cultural landscape
Popular culture zone
Ethnic enclave
Shatterbelt region
Which of the following best describes the concept of 'cultural diffusion'?
The creation of new languages
The process by which a culture becomes extinct
The spread of cultural traits from one society to another
The isolation of cultural groups
What is a common result when multiple cultures interact in the same geographic area?
Formation of a single language
Complete assimilation of all groups
Emergence of a multicultural society
Elimination of local traditions
What is a lingua franca?
A common language that people who have a different native language can all understand
When different groups of people come in contact with one another
When the dominant culture adopts a new culture
When diffusion occurs in history
What major historical event contributed to the spread of Spanish language worldwide?
The Colombian Exchange
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Silk Road
Colonialism and Imperialism
What is the term used to describe the dispersion of people from their original homeland?
Assimilation
Diaspora
Acculturation
Creolization
What is creolization of language?
The adoption of a foreign language for trade
The process by which a language becomes a global lingua franca
The creation of a new language when two or more languages combine
The spread of a language through hierarchical diffusion
The principle that an individual human's belief and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual culture.
Cultural relativism
Ethnocentrism
Xenocentrism
Multiculturalism
Which of the following statements does not show ethnocentrism?
Using chopsticks at every meal is a waste of time. You should just use a fork.
Some cultures will eat with their hands.
Why does their food smell so bad?
I can not believe that they eat insects. That is so gross.
Which is an example of sequent occupance?
the forced movement of Native Americans from their homelands to reservations
the Diaspora of the Jews after being banished from their homeland by the Romans
the decision by Amish immigrants to settle in rural areas rather than in urban enclaves
an ethnic group that is completely surrounded by another ethnic group
the shift in a neighborhood population from Germans to Poles to Koreans
What is a sense of place?
A unique feeling or perception people have of a place
The dominant religion in an area
The ethnic breakdown of an area
The types of architecture commonly used
