Unit 3 Test

Question 1

A repetitive act performed by an individual is a

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Habit

Question 2

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

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from time to time at a given place

Question 3

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of ________ groups

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Large heterogeneous

Question 4

Folk cultures are spread primarily by

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Relocation diffusion

Question 5

Understand the effects of globalization and modern communications on social customs

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Increased the similarity of social customs in different locations

Question 6

As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from

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Familiar events in daily life

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Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to

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Tell a story about lifecycle events, work or national disasters

Question 8

Cultural diversity is promoted by

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The relative isolation of a group from others

Question 9

The choice of clothing in western countries and strongly influenced by

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Occupation, knowledge of fashion elsewhere and the level of income

Question 10

Terroir refers to

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The sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item

Question 11

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

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Taboo

Question 12

The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as less subject to modification then

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The clothing and weapons

Question 13

The most important house style in the United States since the 1960s is known as

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Neo-eclectic

Question 14

The trend of globalization has threatened ______ culture more than _____ culture

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Folk; pop

Question 15

Some features of US material culture such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels promote

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A uniform landscape

Question 16

People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of the strong desire to

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Preserve unique customs

Question 17

And they have more contact with popular culture, woman in less developed countries are more likely to

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Gain more opportunities outside the home

Question 18

Diffusion of popular culture can adversely impact environmental quality in what two ways?

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Depletion of scarce resources in pollution

Question 19

A lingua franca is

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A language that is mutually understood by people who have a different native language

Question 20

A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a

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Language branch

Question 21

The two largest language families in the world are

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Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

Question 22

The language family encompassing the languages of the People’s Republic of China is

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Sino-Tibetan

Question 23

The main Romance languages are

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Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, French

Question 24

The language spoken by soldiers station throughout the Roman Empire was known as

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Vulgar Latin

Question 25

The most widely spoken language in Brazil is

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Portuguese

Question 26

Russian is a part of what language branch?

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Balto Slavic

Question 27

According to Colin Renfrew's research, Indo-European languages defused across Europe alongside the diffusion of

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Agriculture

Question 28

According to the maps and diagrams in this chapter, England was invaded by tribes from

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Germanic-speaking areas

Question 29

A literary tradition is

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The written form of a language

Question 30

An isogloss is

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A boundary between language regions

Question 31

Comparing contrast British and American English

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Alphabet such as... - different word spelling's (example color vs colour) - different pronunciation (example US= VITE-a-min, UK= VIT-a-min) - different vocabulary for some words (example Chips in US= Lays, UK= fries)

Question 32

A form of the language spoken in a local area is a

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Dialect

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A creolized language is

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages

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A pidgin language

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Has no native speakers

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The Icelandic language has changed less than any other Germanic language because of

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Iceland's relative isolation from other places

Question 36

The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is

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Mandarin

Question 37

Chinese is traditionally written in the form of

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Ideograms

Question 38

The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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Thousands of years of isolation between tribal groups

Question 39

____________ is to Canada as _________ is to the US

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French; Spanish

Question 40

The English language is a "second" or "third" language in many regions where it is used as a

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Lingua Franca

Question 41

Which statement best describes the use of English on the Internet

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English has become less dominant but is still the leading Internet language

Question 42

Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

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Religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

Question 43

Animists believe that

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Inanimate objects and natural events have spirits

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The belief in the existence of only one God is

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Monotheism

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When geographers study the sites where religions originated as well as the processes by which those religions diffused to other locations, they're focusing on the

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Spatial connections in religion

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The world's largest ethnic religion is

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Hinduism

Question 47

Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?

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Having a Roman Catholic majority

Question 48

The maps in the chapter indicate that the Eastern Orthodoxy is a branch of the Christianity prevalent in

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Russia

Question 49

A relatively small group that is broken away from it established church is a

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Sect

Question 50

The world's largest universalizing religion is

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Christianity

Question 51

Lutheranism is an example of a Christian

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Denomination

Question 52

The dominant branch of Islam is

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Sunni

Question 53

This map indicates that Baptists are clustered in the _________ United States

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Southern

Question 54

Judaism is not a

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Universalizing religion

Question 55

An ethnic religion appeals mostly to

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One group of people in one place

Question 56

Which religions, including major branches, trace their origin to Abraham?

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Christianity, Islam (Sunni and Shia)

Question 57

What is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who founded it?

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Islam

Question 58

Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

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Remains concentrated in one area of the world

Question 59

Identify characteristics of universalizing religions

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Several priests travel across the world to establish missions on remote islands

Question 60

Identify the characteristics of ethnic religions

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The religious calendar is based largely on seasonal changes in a particular region

Question 61

Christianity first diffused from its hearth through ______ diffusion

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Relocation

Question 62

Roman Catholics are clustered in the US Southwest primarily because of the migration of

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Roman Catholics from Latin America

Question 63

Some of the violence linked to religion in Israel and Palestine is also linked to

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Ethnic groups, resources and disputes over control of land

Question 64

Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than universalizing religion, partly because it's rituals derive from

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Agricultural cycle in Israel

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Protestants in Ireland are

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Highly clustered in one part of the island

Question 66

Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

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Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are built on top of one another

Question 67

The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city where ______ were forced to live

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Jews

Question 68

The exiled spiritual leader of the Tibet is the

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Dalai Lama

Question 69

For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been

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Dispersed around the world

Question 70

It is reasonable to hypothesize that during the Mexican-American war when some Irish soldiers deserted from the US Army to join the Mexican army instead, most were at least partly motivated by the feelings of loyalty towards fellow...

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Roman Catholics

Question 71

Given the Soviet Union's policies toward religion discussed in this chapter, a historian could hypothesize that in the United States, Cold War opposition to the Soviet Union was accompanied by the heightened emphasis on

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Religion as a weapon against "Godless communism"

Question 72

Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the 1,500 years?

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Islam

Question 73

Apartheid- What? Where? When?

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What- systems of racial segregation in South Africa Where- South Africa When- 1948 to 1998

Question 74

Ethnicity is important because it reinforces _________ in the face of globalization culture

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Diversity

Question 75

The most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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Latinos and Hispanics

Question 76

The second most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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African-Americans

Question 77

The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from

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China

Question 78

The United States Census Bureau recognizes which distinct races?

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White, American Indian, Alaskan native, native Hawaiian, pacific islanders, Black/African-American, Asian, Hispanic and Latino

Question 79

Understand the role of "separate but equal" doctrine and "Jim Crow" laws in United States history.

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"Separate but equal" – Established that African-Americans could be kept in separate but equal facilities "Jim Crow"- separates blacks and whites in public

Question 80

Ethnic identity for US descendants of European immigrants is primarily preserve through

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Religion and food

Question 81

A nationality is

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A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition

Question 82

Identify an example of a nationality.

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Group of Cherokee Indians living on a reservation

Question 83

Why is Denmark a good example of nation-state?

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Nearly all of them speak Danish and live in Denmark

Question 84

Identify centripetal forces in the United States.

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Strong national identity, strong naison d'etre- reason for existence

Question 85

When a US politician attempts to appeal to the widest number of voters, she or he probably appeals to the concept of shared

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Nationality

Question 86

Most of the conflict in Africa is a result of colonial boundaries that

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Colonial boundaries in the midst of numerous ethnic and national groups

Question 87

Balkanization refers to

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Breakdown of state due to conflicts among nationalities

Question 88

The breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s was caused mainly by

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Rivalries among nationalities

Question 89

The most important centripetal force in Yugoslavia before the break up was the

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Common economic interests

Question 90

As Sudan's religion-based Civil War was run winding down, an ethnic war erupted in the region of

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Darfur

Question 91

The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called

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Ethnic cleansing

Question 92

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

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Custom

Question 93

Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the US?

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West