AP HUMAN GEO UNIT 3

Question 1

syncretism

Answer 1

blending of two or more cultural influences

Question 2

universalizing religions

Answer 2

accept followers worldwide

Question 3

ethnic religions

Answer 3

private / confined to members of a specific culture group

Question 4

formal doctrines

Answer 4

govern religious practice, worship, and ethical behavior in society

Question 5

animist tradition

Answer 5

ethnic, tribal, and other forms of nature worship

Question 6

hindu - buddhist tradition

Answer 6

hinduism, buddhism, jainism

polytheistic (believes in more than one god)

Question 7

abrahamic tradition

Answer 7

judaism, christianity, and islam

Question 8

residential patterns

Answer 8

distributions of living space is an important indicator of culture, especially in rural areas

Question 9

cultural relativism

Answer 9

different cultures have different morals; what is thought to be right in one culture is wrong in another

Question 10

acculturation

Answer 10

group of people in one culture adopts traits from other

Question 11

creolization

Answer 11

process of mixing culture traits, primarily society

Question 12

lingua franca

Answer 12

language understood by members of a society

Question 13

assimilation

Answer 13

group adopts the prominent culture; sometimes it being forced

Question 14

environmental determinism

Answer 14

belief that the physical environment actively shapes culture

Question 15

ethnocentrism

Answer 15

belief that one culture is more superior to another

Question 16

gendered spaces

Answer 16

Areas in which particular genders of people, and particular types of gender expression, are considered welcome or appropriate, and other types are unwelcome or inappropriate

Question 17

what are historical cause of diffusion?

Answer 17

• exchange of goods
• new vocabulary
• colonist brought new ideas
• persecution