Geography Chpt. 6 Cultural Geography Test Questions – Flashcards
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What subsystem of culture is made up of material objects and the techniques of their use?
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Technological Subsystem
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What is cultural lag?
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The gap in time between innovation of a new tool or idea and its adoption by a culture
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Cultural change is induced by what
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Innovation, Spatial diffusion, Acculturation
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Match each of the three subsystems of culture with the appropriate example
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Technological, Ex: A house Sociological, Ex: A government entity Ideological, Ex: A religion
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Language, tools, techniques, and beliefs are all examples of what?
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Cultural Traits
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What teaches that the road to enlightenment and salvation lies in understanding the "four noble truths"?
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Buddhism
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What are the two basic processes by which spatial dispersion takes place?
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People move to a new area, taking their culture with them. and Information about an innovation spreads throughout a culture.
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What is an organized system of speech by which people communicate with one another?
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Language
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In the modern world, due to globalization, differences in technology between different societies are the result of
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Differences in national and personal wealth
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Cultural convergence
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The sharing of technologies, organization structures, and even culture traits and artifacts that is so evident among widely separated societies in a modern world united by instantaneous communication and efficient transportation.
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The distinctions between the roles of men and women are biologically based.
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False. Gender roles are socially created not biological.
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Culture Realm
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Large segments with basic uniformity in their cultural characteristics and significant differences from adjacent segments.
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Toponymy
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Is the study of place names
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Christianity, Islam and Buddhism are all examples of
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Universalizing religions
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Which four traits are identified by geographers as the most prominent of the differentiating traits of societies and religions?
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Language, Religion, Gender, and Ethnicity
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Acculturation
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The process by which one culture group undergoes a major modification by adopting many of the characteristics of another, usually dominant culture group
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What is the specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, and adaptations that summarize the way of life of a group of people?
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Culture
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What is an assemblage of functionally interrelated culture traits
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A culture complex
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The development of fossil fuel-based energy, Judaism, and democracy are all examples of
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Innovation
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Culture System
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A collection of interacting culture traits and complexes shared by a group within a particular territory
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Culture Region
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A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by people sharing distinct cultural characteristics
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Cultural ecology
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Is the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies
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A primary control on regional differences in gender roles is
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differing levels of economic development
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As populations have increased and new languages have been developed, the world today has more linguistic than it had historically
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False, with the spread of English and other major languages around the world, many languages have fallen out of use
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Which of the following can be barriers to cultural diffusion?
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Religious taboos and Political restrictions
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What concept recognizes that technological, sociological, and ideological subsystems of culture are interrelated
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Cultural integration
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When a new idea or artifact is diffused to a new cultural group, it may undergo some sort of alteration to join it with the existing culture, what is this called
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Syncretism
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What is the subsystem that is the sum of expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations of a culture
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Sociological Subsystem
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The viewpoint that the physical environment determines cultural development is called
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Environmental Determinism
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The sociological subsystem of a cultural group is strongly related to the technological subsystem of that group
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True, Social Institutions are closely related to the technological subsystem of a culture group
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What is the fastest-growing major religion at the present time?
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Islam
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A language spreads geographically through
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The occupation of new territories by speakers, and it's adoption by new species
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Through____, a minority group adopts the patterns of the dominant population. Once this integration process is complete_____ has occurred.
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Acculturation; Assimilation
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Culture Hearth
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Used to describe those areas of innovation from which key culture elements diffused to exert an influence on surrounding regions.
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With its message of salvation to all humankind, Christianity is an example of a
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universalizing
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Which traits can be used to examine cultural diversity?
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Language, music, religion and food
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What is the name used for the Islamic place of worship?
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Mosque
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What is the Torah of Judaism?
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The law and scripture
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Cultural Landscape
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The Earth's surface as modified by human activities.
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Ethnic Religion
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An intricate web of religious, philosophical, social, economic, and artistic elements. Ex: Hinduism
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What is the name used for the concept that cultural development is determined by people and not by the physical environment?
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Possibilism
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Ethnoburb
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A suburban community with a significant concentration of a single ethnic group
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Ethnic Enclaves
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A place were new immigrants usually settle because it is where other members of their ethnic group live
