Geography Unit 3

Question 1

christianity

Answer 1

The religion of a person teaching other people on jesus of nazareth, or its beliefs and practices

Question 2

Ethnic enclave

Answer 2

A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group who is distinct from those in the surrounding the area, such as china town.

Question 3

diffusion

Answer 3

The spreading of something from its hearth or origination point

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

2 cultures meet, the one culture i absorbed completely by force, without any imprints of one culture

Question 5

colonialism

Answer 5

attempt of one country establishing settlements and to impose its political, economical, and cultural principles of another territory

Question 6

contagious diffusion

Answer 6

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature, trend, or idea through out a population regardless of its social classes and levels of power

Question 7

culture

Answer 7

the beliefs, values, practices

Question 8

diaspora

Answer 8

The distribution of people from their homeland

Question 9

centripetal force

Answer 9

a force that tends to unify or bring together and enhance support for a state of community

Question 10

centrifugal force

Answer 10

forces that divided up a state or pull apart from each other - internal religious, politicals, linguistic, ethnitic, or economic differences

Question 11

Buddhism

Answer 11

The religion was found in india by a former prince who saw enlightenment. The hearth is india, and most andherits mainly live in eat or south east asia.

Question 12

Acculturation

Answer 12

The process by which people within 1 culture adopts some other traits from another while keeping their original distinct culture.

Question 13

Creolization

Answer 13

The process when 2 or more languages converge and make a new language.

Question 14

Cultural landscapes

Answer 14

The natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs, and values

Question 15

Cultural relativism

Answer 15

evaluation of a culture by its own standards.

Question 16

Dialect

Answer 16

A regional variety or unique languages distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation

Question 17

Ethnocentrism

Answer 17

Evaluation or other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and costume of one’s culture.

Question 18

Ethniticy

Answer 18

Identity of a group of people that share distinct, physical, and mental traits such as a product of common heredity and cultural tradition

Question 19

Expansion diffusion

Answer 19

The spread of feature, trend, religion, or other culture among people from 1 area to another in a snowballing process. as it spreads it gets larger.

Question 20

Gender roles

Answer 20

Sets of behavioral norms, assumed to accompany ones status male or female.

Question 21

Gendered spaces

Answer 21

Certain locations that are designed and deliberately incorporated into the landscape to accomidate gender roles.

Question 22

relocation diffusion

Answer 22

The spread of culture traits through the movement of people

Question 23

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 23

A fundamental Idea behind a culture trait simulates a new innovation. The trait itself does not move, but triggers the idea that leads to a new cultural trait.

Question 24

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 24

The spread of a trend or feature to 1 key person higher then authority or power to other persons or places

Question 25

Taboos

Answer 25

A restriction on behavior mainly

Question 26

multiculturalism

Answer 26

A situation in which different or multiple ethnic groups exist separately within the same space and share equally in economic and political life.