AP Human Geo Unit 3

Question 1

What is:

Culture

(The same …, …, …, and behaviors transmitted by a …)

Answer 1

The same practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society

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Question 2

What are:

Cultural Traits

(products and practices)

Answer 2

The collected products and practices of a culture group/culture region

Question 3

What is:

Material Culture

(items people make/often give value to, such as …, …, homes, types of f…)

Answer 3

Items people make/often give value to, such as clothing, cars, homes, types of food

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Question 4

What is:

Nonmaterial Culture

(Important id…/pri… in a … such as different .cul…..)

Answer 4

important ideas/principles in a society, such as different cultural traditions

Question 5

What is:

Folk Culture

Answer 5

Culture that’s traditionally practiced by small, homogenous groups, living in relative isolation from other groups

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Question 6

What is:

Popular Culture

Answer 6

Culture found in large, heterogeneous society that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics. Often spread across many regions

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Question 7

What is:

Ethnocentrism

Answer 7

Judging/making assumptions about the other cultures based on your own norms

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Question 8

What is:

Cultural Relativism

Answer 8

Not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right/wrong, strange/normal.

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Question 9

What is the:

Cultural Landscape

(physically see what?)

Answer 9

The ability to physically see elements of a culture in a place

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Question 10

What is the:

Centripetal Force

(Unify a …)

Answer 10

Unify a state (provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity)

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Question 11

What is the:

Centrifugal Force

(Forces that what…?)

Answer 11

Forces that divide a state (Leading to balkanization/devolution, disrupt internal order, destabilize, weaken)

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Question 12

What is the:

Core-Domain-Sphere Model

(A model that shows the place where … of culture traits that … a region is …)

Answer 12

A model that shows the place where concentration of culture traits that chracterizes a region is greatest

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Question 13

What is a:

Cultural Region

(characterized by a what?)

Answer 13

A geographic region that is characterized by a predominantly uniform culture

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Question 14

What is:

Colonialism

Answer 14

Rule by an independent power over a weaker and forreign people and place

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Question 15

What is:

Imperialism

(Used to describe a situation in which … and/or $ dominance is impressed on one … by anothe (empire).

Answer 15

Used to describe a situation in which cultural and/or economic dominance is impressed on one country by another (Empire).

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Question 16

What is a:

Lingua Franca

(A language that…?)

Answer 16

A language that faciliates communication/trade between people who speak different native languages

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Question 17

What is:

Creolization

(The process in which … European, and … traditions have … with each over over a prolonged … to create new … in the ……)

Answer 17

The process in which Amerindian (another term for Native Americans), European, and African traditions and customs have blended with each other over a prolonged period to create new cultures in the New World.

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Question 18

What is:

Cultural Convergence

(Come together)

Answer 18

When different cultures become similar or even come together

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Question 19

What is:

Cultural divergence

(Go in a different direction)

Answer 19

When a culture seperates or goes in a different direction

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Question 20

What is a:

Language

(A system of … throught speech, a collection of … that a group of people … to have ………)

Answer 20

A system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understand to have the same meaning

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Question 21

What is a:

Language Family

(A collection of … related through a ………)

Answer 21

A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language

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Question 22

What is:

Literary Tradtition

(refers to a system of written what?)

Answer 22

A system that refers to a system of written communication

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Question 23

What is an:

Official Language

(designate at least … language to be used for …)

Answer 23

A language that many countries designate. It’s at least one language to be used for official documents and public objects - e.g., road signs and money

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Question 24

What is an:

Indigenous Language

(a language of … whose territory has been … by another … group)

Answer 24

A language of inhabitants whose territory has been colonized by another culture group

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Question 25

# What is a: Language Branch ## Footnote (Collection of ... within a family related through a ....)

Answer 25

Collection of languageas within a family related through a common ancestral language ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 26

# What is a: Language Group ## Footnote (Collection of ... within a ... that share a common ... in the relatively past and display similar gr... and vocab...)

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Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display similar grammar and vocabulary ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 27

# What is a: Dialect ## Footnote (A regional ... of a ... distinguised by distinctive vocab..., ..., and ...)

Answer 27

A regional variation of a language distinguised by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 28

# What is an: Isogloss ## Footnote (... of where ... words are used can be mapped such as a ... usage ...)

Answer 28

Boundaries of where regional words are used can be mapped such as a word usage boundary ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 29

# What is a: Univeralizing Religion ## Footnote (Attempt to be global by .........)

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Attempt to be global by appealing to all people regardless of location/culture ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 30

# What is an: Ethnic Religion ## Footnote (Appearing to **a** group of people)

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A religion that appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place. ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 31

# What is: Atheism

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The belief that God does not exist ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 32

# What is: Agnosticism ## Footnote (Nothing can known about...)

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The belief that nothing can be known about wether God exists ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 33

# What is: Monotheism ## Footnote (one God)

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Belief that there is only one God ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 34

# What is: Polytheism ## Footnote (many Gods)

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Belief that there is/are many Gods ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 35

# What is: Syncretism ## Footnote (blending/combining)

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Blending/combining of several traditions ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 36

# What is: Animism ## Footnote (An ... religion whose followers believe that ............ have spirits and conscious life)

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An ethnic religoon whose followers believe that inainate objects/natural eventas, such as natural disasters, have spirits and conscious life. ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 37

# What are: Scared Spaces ## Footnote (Places of ... are ... structures that physically an... religion to l...)

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Places of worship are scared structures that physically anchor religion to landscape ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 38

# What are: Pilgrimages ## Footnote (Journeys, religious)

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Journeys for religoious purposes ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 39

# What is a: Taboo ## Footnote (A ... on ... imposed by .......)

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom(s) ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 40

# What is: Acculturation ## Footnote (The adoption of certain ... and social ... of one society by another ...)

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The adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 41

# What is: Assimilation ## Footnote (The process through which people lose originality ... traits such as dress, ... particularites, or ..., when they come into contact with another society/culture)

Answer 41

The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society/culture ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 42

# What is: Syncretism ## Footnote (The com... of different .... of be.../prac..., which in turn create a new be.../prac...)

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The combination of different forms of belief/practice, which in turn create a new belief/practice ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 43

# What is: Multiculturalism ## Footnote (The ability to maintain ...... (..., religiously, ...) within a community)

Answer 43

The ability to maintain culturally diverse (linguistically, religiously, ethnically) within a community ## Footnote This was the answer

Question 44

# Hey

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