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A lingua Franca is

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A language understood by people who have different native languages

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The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how

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Recently in time the languages were once the same

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A group if languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a

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Language branch

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A group if languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a

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Language family

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Basque is a good example of a

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Isolated language

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Franglais is

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The use of English in the French language

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Dialects developed within England primarily because

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Different Germanic invaders settled in different regions

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The 2 most important languages in South America are

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Portuguese and Spanish

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English is part of which language branch

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Germanic

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English is part of which language family

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Indo-European

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An is isogloss is

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A boundary between language regions

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In the following answer choices, the best example of literary tradition is

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The historical documents and religious texts of the ancient Maya that were partly destroyed by Spanish conquerors

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British and American English differ in all but which of the following

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Alphabet

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When people who speak a oven language migrate to a different location and become isolated from other members of their group

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Isolation usually results in the differentiation of one language into dialects, followed eventually by two distinct languages

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A form of language spoken in a local area is a

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Dialect

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A creolized language is

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages

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A pidgin language

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Has no native speakers

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A language that was nearly extinct in British controlled area but which is now being revived is

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Celtic

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The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of

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Iceland's relative isolation from other places

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The language spoken by the greatest number of naive speakers in the world is

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Mandarin

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Chinese is traditionally written in the form of

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Ideograms

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The large number if individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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Thousands of years of isolation between cultural groups

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Hebrew is an example of

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A revived language

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___ is to Canada as ____ is to the United States

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French: Spanish

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Celtic languages

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All of the following describe the English language except

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It is an isogloss

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The English language is a "second" or "third" language in many regions where it is used as a

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Lingua Franca

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Which statement best describes the use of English on the internet

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English has Become less dominant but is still the leading internet language

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English has achieved unprecedented acceptance globally due to

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It's role as the common language of a global economy and culture

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Gumbo and jazz are terms that originated in the English dialects of

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African Americans

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The frequent repetition if an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

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Custom

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A repetitive act preformed by an individual is a

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Habit

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Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They also an example of

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Popular culture

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In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

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From time to time at a given place

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Judging from the discussions of other clothing in this chapter, we could say that hoodies are example of ____ adopted by a number of different groups segmented by age class ethnicity and other factors. Hoodies are versatile element of popular culture

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Material culture

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By analyzing the distribution of folk culture in our surroundings we can surmise that

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Several elements of folk culture have multiple unknown origins

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Folk culture are spread primarily by

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Relocation diffusion

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In recent decades popular customs have most frequently originated in

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More developed countries

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As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from

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Familiar events in daily life

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We can deduce from the examples of popular music, fashionable clothing, and electronic applications around us that the rapid diffusion of popular culture

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Depends on modern communication systems

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The distribution of the subjects of art in the Himalayas shows how folk cultures

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Are influenced by distinctive vegetation, climate, and religion

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The spatial distribution of soccer during the 20th century is an example of

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Popular culture

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We can surmise from the discussion of other sports in this chapter that the current distribution of bowling is another example of

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A folk culture becoming part of popular culture

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Terroir refers to

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The sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item

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A taboo against pork is a characteristic of

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Judaism and Islam

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Which aspect of the local environment is the least important for wine production

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Proximity to cities

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China produces a relatively large amount of pork compared to countries of SW Asia primarily because

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Muslims have a taboo against pork consumption

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The ___ is an important source area for US folk house types

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Southern Atlantic

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Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of American west often built houses of sod, while early settlers early settlers of the eastern first built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials

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Are strongly influenced by local resources

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Today house typed in the United States are distinguished by all but which of the following

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They display few regional distinctions

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Diffusion of internet service is following the earlier pattern of television, except that

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Diffusion is much faster

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The trend of globalization has threatened

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Folk culture more than popular culture

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The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of one element of

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Folk culture

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Some features of US material culture such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels

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Promote a uniform landscape

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Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk culture because

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Western perspectives may become more dominant

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Popular culture and folk culture because

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Which of the following characteristics is more typical of popular culture than folk culture

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It results in a more uniform cultural landscape

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Diffusion o popular customs can adversely impact environmental quality in 2 ways

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Depletion of scarce resources and pollution

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Which of the following statements reflects the environment impact of culture

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Popular culture may cause a rapid increase in demand for certain natural resources

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Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America

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Having a Roman Catholic majority

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With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment

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Religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment

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The belief in the existence of only one god is

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Monotheism

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Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

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Cosmogony

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The worlds largest ethnic religion is

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Hinduism

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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a

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Sect

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The worlds largest universalizing religion is

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Christianity

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the dominant branch of Islam of Iran is

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Shiite

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Examples of ethnic religions include

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Daoism, Confucianism and Judaism

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Which is not ethnic Asian religion

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Buddhism

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Followers of which religious branch do not true heir origin to Abraham

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Mahayana

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An ethnic religion is

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Appealing mostly to one group of people in one place

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Which of the following best describes the situation of religion in Tibet

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It's spiritual leader is in exile and the government discourages observance

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Protestants in Ireland are

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Highly clustered in one part of the island

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Jerusalems geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

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Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built on top of one another

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When geographers study the sites where religions originated as well as the processes by which those religions diffused to other locations they are focusing on the

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Spatial connections in religion

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The charts in this chapter indicate that in the world population

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There are more Muslims than Hindus

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A review the maps in this chapter indicate that in northeastern Canada

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The great majority of the people are catholic

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A review of the world maps in this chapter indicates that in South America

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The great majority of the people are catholic

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the maps in this chapter indicate that Eastern Orthodoxy is a branch of Christianity prevalent in

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Russia

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Given Muslim perspectives on sacred spaces in the Middle East, politicians in h region have been wary inviting further religious-fueled conflict by proclaiming

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Jerusalem the capital of Israel

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Some of the violence linker to religion in Israel and Palestine is also linked to

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Ethnic groups resources and disputes over be control of land

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The maps in this chapter shows that Muslims are clustered in

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SW Asia, North Africa and parts of South Asia and SE Asia

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Roman Catholics are clustered in the US SW primarily because of migration of

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Roman Catholics and Latin America

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It is reasonable to surmise that historically when signs were posted in store windows warning "No Irish Need Apply" the store owner may also have been

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Protestant discriminating against Roman Catholic immigrants

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