Unit 3

Question 0

Assimilation

Answer 0

Adaptation of culture

Generally refers to individuals

Question 1

Acculturation

Answer 1

Results of contacts between two or more different cultures

New culture made

Usually on culture is dominant

Question 2

Multiculturalism

Answer 2

The preservation of different cultures within a unified society

Question 3

Aboriginal

Answer 3

(of human races, animals, and plants) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.

Question 4

Acculturation

Answer 4

is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group.

Question 5

Activity space

Answer 5

Reg space of actions

Question 6

Animism

Answer 6

Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life

Question 7

Artifact

Answer 7

an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.

Question 8

Assimilation

Answer 8

The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: “Waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture.”

Question 9

Carl Sauer

Answer 9

argued that cultural landscapes (products of complex interactions between humans and their environments); should be the fundamental focus of geographic inquiry

Question 10

Caste

Answer 10

any class or group of people who inherit exclusive privileges or are perceived as socially distinct.

Question 11

Creole

Answer 11

a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage.