UNIT 2 & 3 TEST

Question 1

What is population density?

Answer 1

The amount of people per square mile

Question 2

What’s the different between Emigration and Immigration?

Answer 2

Emigration = exit a country
Immigration = come into country

Question 3

What are some factors that cause people to move to the city

Answer 3

Natural resources

Question 4

What are the elements of culture?

Answer 4

Language
Arts
Technology
Relationships 
Institutions
Religion

Question 5

What are the two types of institutions?

Answer 5

Formal and informal

Question 6

What’s culture?

Answer 6

Knowledge of ideals, beliefs, and values that are together in a society and are passed down

Question 7

What are the five major religions?

Answer 7

Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam

Question 8

What is a dialect?

Answer 8

A way to reflect speech patterns related to class, region, or other cultural changes.

Question 9

What occurs when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation?

Answer 9

Acculturation

Question 10

What is it called when you spread ideas, innovations, or patterns of behavior?

Answer 10

Diffusion

Question 11

What is the site of innovation where basic ideas, materials, and tech diffuse to many cultures.

Answer 11

Cultural hearth

Question 12

A group that shares a geographic region, a sense or identity, and culture is what.

Answer 12

A society

Question 13

What are values and norms?

Answer 13

Values: abstract ideas about good and bad; right or wrong

Norms: social rules and guidelines

Question 14

Refers to a group that shares a language, customs, or common heritage

Answer 14

Ethnic group

Question 15

What is the transmission of culture from one generation to the next

Answer 15

Enculturation

Question 16

What does a belief system include? (Most important contributing factor of culture)

Answer 16

Religion, dress, food, the arts

Question 17

Type of relationships include….

Answer 17

Family (group of people related by blood or adoption)
Nuclear family
Extended family
Blended family
Single-parent family

Question 18

What is patriarchal and matriarchal?

Answer 18

Pat- male hold dominance over family

Mat- females hold dominance over families

Question 19

A structure of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals in a society

Answer 19

Institutions

Question 20

Culture is a blueprint for living because….

Answer 20

It:

• is determined by how you are brought up
• helps you know what’s acceptable in your society
• provides what you’re supposed to eat and what you can’t
• etc.

Question 21

What are the levels of economic activity in order?

Answer 21

Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quincary

Question 22

What is the oldest form of government?

Answer 22

Monarchy

Question 23

Describe the following forms of government:

• democracy
• single party state
• theocracy
• oligarchy
• monarchy
• dictatorship
• presidential and parliamentary democracy

Answer 23

Democracy- 4 the people by the people
Single- only a ruling party governs. They make a political elite.
Theocracy- headed by religious leaders
Oligarchy - small group of people rule
Monarchy - one family rules the country (king, queen, etc)
Dictatorship- one person controls country through force or power. Likes military groups.
Pres. democ- voters can choose president to lead the government and individuals have a say
Parliament - votes elect lawmakers to choose who’s in parliament

Question 24

Explain the Systems of governments.

Answer 24

Federalism: power split between the higher and lower governments. Higher has control over citizens as a whole, lower has control over individuals

Unitary: power is mainly held with the central government

Confederate: lower glove is stronger than higher gov making only a central government.