[finalized] chapter four - six unit test Flashcards
How do you explain the distribution of Catholics along the southwest borderlands of the United States?
Latin Americans migrating to the US are predominantly Catholic.
Which of the following is not a distinctive feature of the Middle Eastern cultural landscape?
slashed-and-burned fields within forests
The second-largest language family in terms of speakers today is
sino-tibetian
The drinking of wine with meals is an example of a French __________.
culture trait
Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to
Rapidly diffuse through modern communication systems
A green space in the center of a village reflects the traditional cultural landscape of which of the following United States regions?
New England
In what current nation did the diffusion of Islam begin?
Saudi Arabia
Which of the following languages is considered a revived language?
Hebrew
Contagious diffusion
depends on direct contact between innovating and adopting cultures and spreads throughout culture.
Which of the following best defines Carl Sauer’s concept of cultural landscape?
It is the outcome of interaction between humans and their natural environment.
Which of the following terms are evident in the passage?
I and III only
Egypt
Sunni Islam
Iran
Shia Islam
Vietnam
Buddhism
Argentina
Roman Catholic
Germany
Protestant
India
Hindu
Israel
Judaism
A boundary line separating distinct dialectal differences in word choice is termed:
isogloss
The Flemings and Walloons live in what country?
Belgium
Arabic
Syria
Spanish
Chile
Javanese
Indonesian (NOT INDIAN)
Niger-congo
zaire
Similar restaurants, gas stations, and stores throughout the United States
Illustrate how popular culture can create a uniform landscape
All of the following were colonized by France EXCEPT
Cuba
Of the four major religions, the one which has experienced the most diverse geographical diffusion is:
Christianity
Of the principal recognized language clusters of the world, which one contains the languages spoken by about half of the world’s people:
Indo-European
In which of the following countries has the diffusion of Christianity met the most resistance?
China
Syncretism is the process of:
fusing the old and new elements of culture
The Basque language is spoken primarily in
the Pyrenees Mountains
The elements of the ideological subsystem of a culture
are the intangible items that give distinctive content and character to a culture.
The part of the world which is still dominated by tribal religions is:
sub-saharan africa
In order of those who adopt an idea first, people can be categorized as:
innovators, majority adopters, laggards
Religions are important keys to human geographic understanding because
religious beliefs intimately affect all facets of a culture.
From the largest to smallest, the most accurate representation of cultural units is:
realm, region, complex, trait
In order of most dominant to least dominant, what are the terms used to describe a culture area:
core,domain,sphere
Toponyms in southern California reflect which of the following?
Cultural heritage of the settlers
Which of the following is not an important factor in distinguishing different folk housing types?
size of buildings
Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity have been called “universalizing” religions because each
claims universal applicability and seeks converts.
Distance decay implies that
short-distance contacts are more likely than long-distance contacts.
Which of the the following best explains why Papua New Guinea was less developed than their European conquerers?
Papua New Guinea was physically isolated from other civilizations.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Hinduism?
It is a universalizing religion.
