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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a cultural landscape?
a coral reef
a stand of pine trees
tropical jungle
terraced fields of crops up a mountainside
a glacier
- 2. Multiple Choice
Globalization has encouraged the diffusion of
popular culture
ethnic religions
linguistic fragmentation
folk culture
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following countries has the larges percentage of Roman Catholics?
the United States
Great Britain
Indonesia
Brazil
India
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following schools of thought puts most emphasis on the importance of the physical environment in shaping cultures?
possibilism
cultural ecology
environmental determinism
environmental perception
cultural determinism
- 5. Multiple Choice
As Islam spread to Sub Saharan Africa by the 9th century, its first converts were the elites, but most ordinary people retained their native religions. This phenomenon illustrates the process of
contagious diffusion
hierarchical diffusion
stimulation diffusion
relocation diffusion
migrant diffusion
- 6. Multiple Choice
Acculturation is a process whereby
the more dominant culture adopts most of the traits of the less dominant culture
the dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one
cultural traits are equally exchanged between two cultures
the less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one
non-material and material culture spread to areas around them
- 7. Multiple Choice
Linguistic geographers use isoglosses to mark
the creation of pidgins
the extent to which a lingua franca is used in a particular area
the limits for an area in which particular words are used
the area in which an official language is used
the area in which an extinct language is used
- 8. Multiple Choice
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and
heterogeneous groups.
homogeneous groups.
groups living in isolated rural areas.
groups that have little interaction with other groups.
groups of specialists.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which contributes to toponyms in most areas of the world?
cultural heritage of the settlers
role of pop culture
locational theory
globalization
time-space convergence
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which region of the world has the LEAST amount of diffusion of Christianity
South America
Latin America
South Africa
East Asia
Southern Europe
- 11. Multiple Choice
The Tidewater house style houses (one-story) originated in which of the following culture areas?
The Great Lakes region
New England and the Canadian Maritimes
The Canadian Prairie
The United States Southeast coast
The United States Southwest
- 12. Multiple Choice
One way to define cultural landscape is
cultural ecology
nonmaterial culture
environmental determinism
physical environment
built environment
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following correctly sequences the continuum from language family to dialect?
Indo-European, Germanic, English, Midland-Northern
Indo-European, English, Germanic, Midland-Northern
Mandarin, Chinese, Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan
Romance, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Madarin, Burmese
- 14. Multiple Choice
The onion-domed churches in Moscow are most clearly examples of that city's cultural
barriers
landscape
enclaves
realm
borders
- 15. Multiple Choice
A family that immigrates from China to the United States and chooses to live in an ethnic enclave is probably hoping to
expose their children to people of many other cultures
assimilate their family into American culture as quickly as possible
find a buffer against discrimination while they seek new opportunities
find more religious and language diversity than in most communities
separate itself from its Chinese culture rapidly and completely
- 16. Multiple Choice
One distinctive feature of the Indo-European family is that it
has a smaller spatial distribution than other language families
is the only language family with just one major lingua franca
includes most of the world's oldest languages
is spoken by nearly half the world's population
is the only one that is spoken in Europe today
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which is the best example of the diffusion of a language?
the decline in use of the Navajo language
the spread of English via the Internet
the creation of a new language in Haiti
the designation of one official language for a country
the use of bilingual signs in a country with two official languages
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which resulted from the mixing of two languages to create a new one so that people who spoke different languages could trade more easily?
Swahili
Indo-European
Ameridian
American English
Arabic
- 19. Multiple Choice
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are alike in that they all
began as universal religions
started in a region that is now part of Europe
trace their heritage to Abraham
evolved into polytheistic religions
are examples of ethnic religions
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which was the most common religious change among Africans as a result of contact with people from Europe and the Middle East?
from monotheism to polytheism
from polytheism to an ethnic religion
from a universalizing religion to an ethnic religion
from an ethnic religion to animism
from animism to a universalizing religion
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