Intro to Geography Ch7 Quiz – Flashcards
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When a social group does not adopt useful innovation, it is said to display
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Cultural Lag
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The smallest distinctive term of a culture is called a
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Culture trait
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The study of place names as evidence of past cultural presence and change is called
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Toponymy
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The one way in which culture is NOT transmitted to younger generations is by
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Mutation
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Religions are important keys to human geographic understanding because
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Religious believes intimately affect all facets of a culture
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Both Christianity and Islam have their origins in what religion
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Judaism
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The spread of English as a worldwide language was the result of
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The establishment of overseas colonies and former English dominance in world trade
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Of the following major world religions the newest is
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Islam
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Syncretism implies the fusion of old and new culture traits into a new, composite form
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True
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Ethnocentrism is the feeling of superiority of one's own ethnic group
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True
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The three subsystems of culture are
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Technological sociological an idealogical
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The rejected theory that cultures are controlled by the physical geography of their surroundings was
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Environmental determinism
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The Japanese love of baseball is an example of Acculturation
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True
