Lesson 1: Elements of Culture

Question 1

The set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people have in common

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Things like language, religion, music, clothing, food, skin color, etc.

Answer 2

Things that culture includes

Question 3

An activity or behavior in which people take part

Answer 3

Cultural trait

Question 4

How do cultures develop?

Answer 4

They are passed down from generations/traditions and people learn in new culture traits

Question 5

What are culture groups based on?

Answer 5

Age, language, and religion

Question 6

What is new ideas, motion pictures as societies come in contact with each other.

Answer 6

Culture changes

Question 7

How does culture spread?

Answer 7

When people move from one place to another, trades, and conflicts

Question 8

What are organized patterns of belief and behavior that focus on meeting these needs?

Answer 8

Social institutions

Question 9

What are some examples of social institutions?

Answer 9

Family, education, religion, government, and economy

Question 10

All people use __________ to shape and control their environments, and they use __________ to try and understand it.

Answer 10

technology

science

Question 11

What is the belief systems, political decisions, ecomic factors, government descisions, and environmental factors

Answer 11

Technology influences

Question 12

What are some impacts of technology?

Answer 12

Vaccines, inventions, etc.

Question 13

What is a total number of people in a given area?

Answer 13

Population

Question 14

Why do geographers study human population?

Answer 14

to watch patterns emerge over time

Question 15

What do geographers study when they look at population?

Answer 15

How many people live in an area, why people live where they do, and how population change (s) (ed)

Question 16

What is the mesaure of the number of people living in an area?

Answer 16

Population density

Question 17

How does population density affect life in a particular place?

Answer 17

Crowded areas or places with high population, the land is pricy, crowded/busy roads, building are taller (opposite for low density) taxes

Question 18

What aspects of life does population affect?

Answer 18

Amount of food, jobs/occupations, housing, whether schools and hospitals are open/closed

Question 19

What are the three key statistics that are important to studying a country’s population over time?

Answer 19

Birth rate, death rate, and rate of natural increase

Question 20

What is a common cause of population change?

Answer 20

Migration

Question 21

What is the process of moving from one place to live to another?

Answer 21

migration

Question 22

What are some reasons why people migrate?

Answer 22

Weather, jobs, housing, traffic, politics, segregation

Question 23

The population growth in some of the more industrialized nations has begun to _____________

Answer 23

slow down

Question 24

Do less industrialized countries have growth rates?

Answer 24

Not very often

Question 25

What is any place where a community is established called?

Answer 25

Settlement

Question 26

What are the four reasons to settle someplace?

Answer 26

Natural resources, water (fresh), rich soil for farming, and trade routes

Question 27

What is a path used by traders for buying and selling goods called/

Answer 27

Trade route

Question 28

What is the city and its surrounding areas called?

Answer 28

urban

Question 29

What do you call the outside of the cities or the countryside?

Answer 29

rural

Question 30

What is the placement of people and objects on Earth and the space between them called?

Answer 30

Spacial placement

Question 31

Which kind of settlement is when people are grouped along the length of a resource such as a river?

Answer 31

Linear settlement

Question 32

What kind of settlement is grouped at the center of a resource?

Answer 32

cluster settlement

Question 33

What kind of settlement is purposely laid out with a network of transportation routes?

Answer 33

Grid settlement

Question 34

What is the number one way that we interact with the world?

Answer 34

Farming

Question 35

What is when farmers carve steps into the hillside to create flat land for growing crops?

Answer 35

Terraced farming

Question 36

What is the cutting down of trees and plants with knives and machetes, then burning the fallen trees to clear land for farming?

Answer 36

Slash-and-burn agriculture

Question 37

What uses the sprinkler system in the center of a large, circular field and the long arms of the sprinkles water the crops?

Answer 37

Center pivot irrigation

Question 38

Why do cultural universals exist?

Answer 38

To help societies meet basic needs

Question 39

A new idea or way of doing something

Answer 39

innovation

Question 40

What is a society that includes a variety of cultures in the same area?

Answer 40

Multicultural society

Question 41

Give an example of creative expression

Answer 41

Performing arts, visual arts, literary arts

Question 42

What is anyplace where a community is established called?

Answer 42

Settlement

Question 43

What is a city, its suburbs, and the surrounding area from a large urban area called?

Answer 43

Metropolitan area

Question 44

This refers to the substantial exchange of goods between cities, states, or countries?

Answer 44

commerce