Unit 1 Study Guide-Geography and Culture

Question 1

What are the five major world religions

Answer 1

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism

Question 2

Which of the five major world religions are universalizing religions?

Answer 2

Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

Question 3

Which of the major world religions are monotheistic?

Answer 3

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism

Question 4

Which of the major world religions are polytheistic?

Answer 4

Hinduism

Question 5

Which region of the world did Christianity originate?

Answer 5

Middle East

Question 6

Which region of the world did Islam originiate?

Answer 6

Middle East

Question 7

Which region of the world did Judaism originate?

Answer 7

Middle East

Question 8

Which region of the world did Buddhism originiate?

Answer 8

India

Question 9

Which region of the world did Hinduism originate?

Answer 9

India

Question 10

What is the largest world religion with how many followers?

Answer 10

Christianity, 2 billion

Question 11

Which of the major world religions is the smallest with how many followers?

Answer 11

Judaism, 14 million

Question 12

Where did Indo-European come from?

Answer 12

Eastern Europe

Question 13

Where did Sino-Tibetan come from?

Answer 13

East Asia

Question 14

Where did Niger-Congo come from?

Answer 14

Central to Southern Africa

Question 15

Where did Austronesian come from?

Answer 15

South Asia

Question 16

Where did Afro-Asiatic come from?

Answer 16

Middle East to North Africa

Question 17

Where did Dravidian come from?

Answer 17

Northern India to Middle Asia

Question 18

Where did Turkic come from?

Answer 18

Northern Asia to Eastern Europe

Question 19

Where did Japonic come from?

Answer 19

Eastern Asia (Japan)

Question 20

Which language family is the largest with how many speakers?

Answer 20

Indo-European, 3.2 billion speakers

Question 21

Which language family is the smallest with how many speakers?

Answer 21

Japonic, 128 million speakers

Question 22

What are cultural landscapes?

Answer 22

landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement

Question 23

How does culture affect the landscape of a place?

Answer 23

Societies build their civilization around the landscape or it becomes important to the culture.

Question 24

Define relocation.

Answer 24

moving from one place to another while maintaining culture

Question 25

Define hierarchical

Answer 25

ideas spreading from one connected group to another smaller group, and so on

Question 26

Define contagious

Answer 26

When culture spreads very quickly in an area

Question 27

Define stimulus

Answer 27

when culture spreads but certain ones make it their own

Question 28

What is a cultural hearth and examples?

Answer 28

Cultural hearths are places where culture diffused from, the place of origin. The Ganges River valley and ancient Mesopotamia

Question 29

Define globilization.

Answer 29

The expansion of culture to where it becomes global in scale and impact

Question 30

Define acculturation.

Answer 30

The adoption of certain culture and social characteristics by another society

Question 31

Define multiculturalism.

Answer 31

Culture found in large societies that share habits despite differences in personal characteristics

Question 32

Define cultural convergence.

Answer 32

The tendency of cultures to become more alike

Question 33

Define syncretism.

Answer 33

A mixing of cultural objects

Question 34

Define lingua franca

Answer 34

A language understood by many and used during trade with those who have different native languages

Question 35

Define creolization

Answer 35

When two languages merge to form a new one