Unit 3 Topic 3

Question 1

What is placemaking?

Answer 1

The way people modify the landscape in order to live in a particular location.

Question 2

What is a sense of place?

Answer 2

The act of filling a geographical location at any scale with meaning and significance

Question 3

What is placelessness?

Answer 3

Defined by geographer Edward Ralph as the loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.

Question 4

What factors make up a sense of place?

Answer 4

language, dialect, religion, ethnicity

Question 5

What is a dialect?

Answer 5

A regionally distinct way of speaking a language

Question 6

What is an ethnicity?

Answer 6

A common cultural background that creates a sense of belonging among a people

Question 7

Centripetal vs Centrifugal

Answer 7

-Characteristics that unify a country/provides stability
-Characteristics that cause division in a country/destabilizes a place

Question 8

What are some examples of centripetal forces?

Answer 8

Religion: Hinduism in India
Language: Spanish in Central America
Ethnicity: Han ethnicity in China

Question 9

What are some examples of centrifugal forces?

Answer 9

Religion: Division between the Shi’a and Sunni Islam
Language: Bills declaring English as the official language of the U.S.
(Note: English is not the official language of America; however, some states do list English as their official language.)
Ethnicity: Ethnic tension during the Rwandan Genocide