chapter 5 Flashcards
(54 cards)
The country’s total land area is ________ square miles (298,170 km square)
115,124
The Philippine archipelago’s location at the _____ edge of Asia
far southeastern
The current population of the Philippines is_____ at mid year or 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
117,337,368
The archipelago is made up of over 7,100 islands of which only ____ are more than one square mile (2km square) in area.
460
t or f
The rest of the islands are inhabitable, and some disappear at high tide.
t
The geographic location of the Philippines meant that many aspects of region’s religious and cultural influences could be selectively adopted into the pre-existing culture.
Freedom to pick and choose from other cultures have helped to produce the very unique combination, that is the Philippines.
t or f
___ is ethnically and geographically divided into a number of subregions and is the home to three of the country’s six major language dialects
Luzon
___ which was the 1521 landing spot for Ferdinand Magellan during his exploratory voyage around the world and where he lost his life in a battle with a local chieftain.
cebu
To the far South is the large island of ____ that extends from a southwesterly arm known as ___ archipelago up to the main portion of the massive island that is a home to uneasily mixed population of non-Christian tribal groups, indigenous Muslims and recent Filipino Christian migrants.
Mindanao
sulu
very diverse geographically with a number of major river basins, gulfs, and bays, and it is known to a number of ethno-linguistic groups.
mindanao
t or f
Majority of the population is the Christianized “lowland” Filipinos.
t
t or f
Filipinos are not usually differentiated or distinguished according to which dialect they speak.
false; usually
The distinction being that the dialects are variations of a single linguistic root, since they all belong to the _____ language Family.
Malayo-Polynesian
people today prefer to call the Malayo-Polynesian family the “_____” family.
Austronesian
The language is geographically concentrated in the South Pacific islands and parts of southern Asia including the ____
Philippines, Madagascar, much of Malaysia, and the Central and South Pacific island groups (excluding Australia)
t or f
Filipino Christian on Mindanao identify themselves by geographic residences
t
t or f
the Muslim people base their identity on religion, and the nation’ s indigenous peoples, whose pre-Christian and pre-Islamic religious beliefs and cultures give them distinct identities.
t
Tagalog speakers live in the ____ area and adjacent regions of Central Luzon to the north and southern Tagalog provinces to the south.
metropolitan Manila
t or f
Tagalog forms the basis of Pilipino/Filipino, which over the last few decades has made real progress in becoming a true national language, despite the resistance of other dialects whose speakers resent the Manila/Tagalog dominance of the nations political, economic and cultural life.
t
Central Luzon, which covered the provinces of____and two highly urbanized cities (Angeles City and Olongapo City)
Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales
Southern Tagalog which covered the provinces of _____ and the highly urbanized City of Lucena
Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Quezon, Rizal, Romblon and Aurora
the native dialect of the Filipinos living along the coastal plains and agricultural valleys of northern Luzon.
ilocano
Ilocanos have a reputation for being very tamad and extremely frugal.
false; hard working
____ are known for their spicy foods that make abundant use of chili peppers and their consumption of the coconut vodka lambanog.
Bicolanos
