AP Human Geo: Chapter 6

Question 1

142. Agnosticism

Answer 1

Belief that nothing can be known about whether God exists.

Question 2

143. Animism

Answer 2

Belief that objects, such as plants and stores, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious.

Question 3

144. Atheism

Answer 3

Belief that God does not exist.

Question 4

145. Autonomous Religion

Answer 4

A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.

Question 5

146. Branch

Answer 5

A large and fundamental division within a religion.

Question 6

147. Caste

Answer 6

The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law.

Question 7

148. Cosmogony

Answer 7

A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.

Question 8

149. Denomination

Answer 8

A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.

Question 9

150. Ethnic Religion

Answer 9

A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.

Question 10

151. Fundamentalism

Answer 10

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religion branch, denomination, or sect).

Question 11

152. Ghetto

Answer 11

During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used ti denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

Question 12

153. Hierarchical Religion

Answer 12

A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.

Question 13

154. Missionary

Answer 13

An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.

Question 14

155. Monothemism

Answer 14

The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one god.

Question 15

156. Pagon

Answer 15

A follower of a polytheistic religion.

Question 16

157. Pilgrimage

Answer 16

A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.

Question 17

158. Polytheism

Answer 17

belief in or worship of more than one god.

Question 18

159. Sect

Answer 18

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination

Question 19

160. Solstice

Answer 19

An astronomical event that happens twice each year, when the tilt of Earth’s axis is most inclines toward or away from the sun, causing the sun’s apparent position in the sky to reach it most northernmost or southernmost extreme, and resulting in the shortest and longest day of the year.

Question 20

161. Syncretic

Answer 20

A religion that combines several traditions.

Question 21

162. Universalizing Religion

Answer 21

A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.