Culture and Geography

Question 1

Learned behavior acquired by individuals as members of a social group; all things that make up a people’s entire way of life

Answer 1

culture

Question 2

What are the causes of culture change?

Answer 2

Technology and changing environment

Question 3

Movement of customs and ideas from one place to another

Answer 3

cultural diffusion

Question 4

Relying on other people for goods and services

Answer 4

cultural interdependence

Question 5

Prefer our own, out of familiarity; judge other cultures by our own standards

Answer 5

ethnocentricism

Question 6

What are the 7 elements of culture?

Answer 6

social organization, religion, economic system, government, customs & traditions, language, arts & literature

Question 7

What are the 5 themes of geography?

Answer 7

Movement, region, human environment interaction, location, place

Question 8

What are the 2 types of location?

Answer 8

absolute and relative

Question 9

latitude and longitude

Answer 9

absolute

Question 10

Described by landmarks, time, direction or distance from one place to another and may associate a particular place with another

Answer 10

relative

Question 11

Made up of human and physical characteristics; affects how a person lives

Answer 11

place

Question 12

How humans adapt, modify, and depend on the environment

Answer 12

human environment interaction

Question 13

How people, goods, and things are transported

Answer 13

movement

Question 14

An area displays coherent unity in terms of language, government, landforms, or situation

Answer 14

region

Question 15

What are the 3 types of regions?

Answer 15

formal, functional, vernacular

Question 16

Defined by governmental or administrative boundaries (Rockies, great lake states etc.)

Answer 16

formal

Question 17

Loosely defined by people’s perspectives (South, Middle East)

Answer 17

vernacular

Question 18

Defined by a function (zip code, area code)

Answer 18

functional

Question 19

What are the 2 basic types of maps?

Answer 19

political and physical

Question 20

Shows us countries

Answer 20

political

Question 21

Shows us rivers, deserts, etc.

Answer 21

physical

Question 22

What are the 4 Map projections?

Answer 22

mercator, peters, robinson, interrupted

Question 23

Shows the correct areas of landmasses and oceans, accurate directions, distorts the shape of Africa and South America (look longer and thinner)

Answer 23

peters

Question 24

Most used today, correct sizes and shapes of most landmasses, fairly accurate view of the sizes of oceans and distances across land, distortions along edge

Answer 24

robinson

Question 25

Shows direction accurately, accurate view of land areas near equator, distorts the size and shape of lands near the north and south poles

Answer 25

Mercator

Question 26

Corrects sizes and shapes, cuts down parts of oceans, impossible to measure distance accurately

Answer 26

Interrupted

Question 27

What are the 3 parts to human environment interaction?

Answer 27

Adapt, modify, depend