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How have colonialism, imperialism, and trade helped to shape patterns and practices of culture?
Colonialism placed settlements in other countries and imperialism helped to protect these settlements.
Imperialism, trade, and colonialism brings distinct cultural characteristics into other countries, creating new cultures through acculturation.
The influence of more imperialism, colonialism, and trade have forced cultural practices into smaller countries
Colonialism, imperialism, and trade help add diversity into other cultures.
The Amish is an example of a culture that has a combination of things that make it a culture. Which one of the following is part of a cultural combination?
Common practices
Technologies
Attitudes
Behaviors of a society
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How do geographers use maps and the spatial perspective to analyze and assess language, religion, ethnicity and gender?
By identifying and analyzing patterns and cultural differences.
They don’t do this
By talking to people of the different cultures in a certain time or place using the map
By assuming from the characteristics of the different language,religion, ethnicity, or gender.
How does language contribute to cultural practices ?
it doesn't contribute to cultural practices.
It divides different cultures
It helps shape individual culture and unite individuals
Brings hostility to different cultures
In what ways do ethnicity & gender reflect cultural attitudes that shape the use of space ?
Ethnicity & gender don’t contribute to the use of space
segregation of gender
they can create places for a specific race (ethnic neighborhoods)
races tend to stay where their ancestors originally settled
What types of diffusion include expansion and relocation?
Facilitated diffusion
Diffusion of disease
Cultural diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Why are universalizing religions spread through expansion and relocation diffusion?
Because universalizing religions have lots of missionaries, whose sole purpose is to spread their religion, usually by going and completely moving to the other country.
Because they are the more popular religions with the largest number of members in each.
Because the religions are spread down the family line, resulting in entire families being that one religion.
Because they are the first religions in recorded human history
How are cultural landscapes amalgamations of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religions and linguistic characteristics, and other expressions of culture? How do the above characteristics make up our culture?
Religion is culture
All these characteristics make up who we are
Culture is our customs and norms
These characteristics do not contribute to our culture
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Why are popular culture origins often urban,changeable,and influenced by media?
These things allow that culture to spread easily and grow.
These things help the culture become well known.
They allow the culture to be shown on popular social media.
It makes the culture easier to understand.
How are language patterns and distributions represented on maps, charts, and language trees?
By presenting the difficulty of languages
By presenting the diversity, origins, and speakers of languages
By presenting the races affiliated with languages
By presenting the age of languages
What feature does not make up culture, and what is an example of this trait?
Customs and traditions-for example many African grooms give “labola” to their brides father
Location-for example many Japanese people live in Japan
Religion-for example most mexicans are Roman Catholic
Language-for example many Papua New Guineans speak Tok Pisin
How are religious patterns and distributions represented on maps and charts?
The map and charts show that the Islamic religion is 3 times bigger than Christianity.
The map and charts show that Christianity is the minority religion in the world.
The map and chart shows that Christianity is mostly practiced in Asia.
The map and chart shows that Christianity is the religion that is most practiced across the Russia.
Which one of these a unique sense of place and culture?
Fast Food chains
Pop culture
Ethnic Religion
Western style clothing
How are religious patterns and distributions represented on maps and charts?
Christianity is the smallest religion.
Buddhism is the largest religion on earth.
Hinduism is the 3rd largest religion.
There is more Islam in Europe than Christianity.
how do cultural patterns and landscapes vary by place and region?
Regional patterns of language, religion, and ethnicity contribute to a sense of place, enhance placemaking, and shape the global cultural landscape.
Language families, languages, dialects, world religions, ethnic cultures, and gender roles diffuse from cultural hearths, resulting in interactions between local and global forces that lead to new forms of cultural expression
Communication technologies are reshaping and accelerating interactions among people and places and changing cultural practices .
Why are popular culture origins often urban, changeable, and influenced by media?
Because media is what drives popular culture and is changing due to whats in everyday life
.they are not permanent an can be changed but not because what people watch
its based on how people feel and changes off what one thinks
popular culture is based on same thing and does not change very often
How are communication technologies enhancing interactions among people and how might they change cultural combinations?
It helps people finish their work faster but maybe at a cost of a part of their culture.
It helps speed globalization and increases social interaction between people and pushes cultures toward accepting them even if it's a huge change.
It helps people text over long distance, and changes cultures significantly.
It makes talking to people better, and some cultures might not accept it but it significantly drops their level next to modern society.
Why are ethnic religions generally found near the hearth or spread through relocation diffusion?
Because the hearth is the heart of the religion.
Because they typically are similar to universalizing regions
They typically have much more clustered distributions which remain embedded in the culture where they originated.
They do not spread through relocation diffusion, they spread through contagious diffusion.
Why are universalizing religions spread through expansion and relocation diffusion?
Universalizing religions offer belief systems that are used by the universal population that migrates continuously
Due to widespread diffusion throughout a population
Spread throughout diverse isolated places
The combination of two different religions
How do geographers assess the spatial and place dimensions of cultural groups in the past and present?
by analyzing the many aspects of the culture which include language, race, and ethnicity
assuming the behaviors of that certain culture
physical encounter with the group
reviewing the structure of that culture which include politics, currency, and food.
How do geographers assess the spatial and place dimensions of cultural groups in the past and present?
Geographers combine all information of a cultural group and place it on a map.
Geographers use the internet to search information about the area of a cultural group.
Geographers use maps to analyze the language, religion, ethnicity and gender of a cultural group.
Geographers analyzes the elements of a cultural group by gaining their information from a person of that group.
What types of diffusion include expansion?
Hierarchical diffusion, Contagious diffusion, and Stimulus diffusion.
Stimulus diffusion and Relocation diffusion.
Contagious diffusion, Stimulus diffusion, and Relocation diffusion.
Hierarchical diffusion, Relocation diffusion, Contagious diffusion, Stimulus diffusion.
What type of diffusion is Relocation diffusion?
The spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process.
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout a population.
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.
The spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse.
How do geographers use maps and the spatial perspective to analyze and assess language,religion,ethnicity,and gender?
Geographers use maps and spatial perspective to analyze language,religion,ethnicity, and gender by using the physical features of that area and comparing it to others.
Geographers use maps and spatial perspective to analyze language,religion,ethnicity, and gender by learning how the patterns interact with each other by making predictions.
Geographers use maps and spatial perspective to analyze language,religion,ethnicity, and gender by learning how people would act against other cultures.
Geographers use maps and spatial perspective to analyze language,religion,ethnicity, and gender by seeing how people interact with their environment.
In what ways are communication technologies reshaping and accelerating interactions among people, and how might they change cultural practices ?
Allowing information, and cultural traits to travel between people
To isolate cultural traits
Improving cultural diversity
How has colonialism shaped patterns and practices of culture?
Colonialism shapes cultures by diffusing characteristics and traits from different cultures in which other cultures can culturally appropriate those traits
Colonialism shapes cultures by the migration of individuals on to new territory
Colonialism shapes cultures by creating pidgin languages
Colonialism shapes cultures by spreading taboos and terroirs
What is a way that religious distribution are represented statistically on maps and charts?
By showing the color range of where Christianity is distributed
Choropleth map of where Buddhism and Hinduism is distributed
Showing dots to represent the people of an area
Showing arrows on how religion expands around the globe
Why are folk culture origins usually anonymous and rooted in tradition while also often found in rural or isolated indigenous communities?
A folk culture maintains a state of anonymity but is present in communities by slowly diffusing throughout a region.
A folk culture is not able to diffuse throughout a region because of deep traditions that exist inside it.
A folk culture is rooted in tradition yet exists in rural communities because they associated with a hearth of the culture.
Folk cultures exists in isolated communities by a deep rooted sense of place within the communities.
Why are universalizing religions spread through expansion and relocation diffusion?
Because expansion diffusion spreads the religion through direct contact of people and relocation diffusion allows the religion to go to different countries.
Because it’s the fastest way to spread the religion.
The religions aren’t spread like that, they spread through contagious diffusion.
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Why are languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts essential in understanding landscapes that are symbolic of a cultural identity and what are some examples of these symbolic landscapes?
These concepts are what define the cultural identity that is represented by symbolic landscapes.
The symbolic landscapes are specific to these concepts and do not stray from them.
These concepts are only seen in symbolic landscapes.
These concepts are not essential in understanding symbolic landscapes.
How does culture and its traits diffuse throughout time and space?
Folk culture diffuses quickly through relocation diffusion and is common to be seen globally and pop culture diffuses slower through transportation and communication.
Popular culture diffuses through rapid electronic communication and transportation networks and folk culture diffuses through relocation and diffuses slower than pop culture.
Culture diffuses into hearths through assimilation and acculturation and quickly diffuses globally. Folk cultures diffuse slower than pop culture as they are more isolated.
Pop culture and folk culture diffuse the same way through hierarchical and relocation diffusion and diffuses quickly because of communication and transportation.
Why are folk culture origins usually anonymous and rooted in tradition while also often found in rural or isolated communities?
folk culture refers to the products and practices of homogeneous and small-scale social groups often associated with tradition, historical continuity, sense of place, and belonging
folk culture is usually found in large, heterogeneous societies and can be traced back to a specific person or place
folk culture has no specific upbringing and continues to spread by modern communications and hierarchical diffusion
folk culture is traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups who share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics and has many connections due to globalization
Why are universalizing religions spread through expansion and relocation diffusion?
In attempt to be spread out globally and appeal to all people
They are religions that primarily appeal to one group of people
To adopt culture traits from other religions and ethnicity's
They travel with a particular ethnic group
How has trade helped to shape patterns and practices of culture?
Trade brings new languages and new ideas into a culture
Trade brings job opportunities for the poor
Trade only allows the wealthy to get richer and therefore isolates their culture
Trade is only about economics so it does not have any impact on culture.
What represents language distribution on maps?
Isogloss and Ethnic Neighborhoods
District line and Gerrymandering
Site and Place
Language Family and Language Group
Which is not an example of a way that ethnicity and gender can reflect cultural attitudes that shape the use of space?
Ethnic neighborhoods such as Little Italy, New York
The concentration on members of the Mormon church in and around Utah
The concentration of women in Chicago, Illinois due to business opportunities
A minority of European-Americans in Cleveland, Ohio due to the immigration of freed African-American slaves
How does the diffusion of culture shape acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism?
Diffusion allows the culture of others to spread and the people learn new things that they then bring into their own culture.
Diffusion only shapes acculturation because that is how both cultures change
People moving to different places shows others how they could improve their culture, making them take action.
Diffusion shapes how people view other cultures and makes them want to be a part of that culture.
How are acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism shaped by the diffusion of culture?
New languages, food, and cultural traits are spread all around the world making other people and cultures adapt/ take in other cultures.
Diffusion of culture makes acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism by making culture traits spread faster.
Cultures notice and always take in the new culture traits that they hear and see about.
Diffusion of culture shapes them by adding popularity to the types of new cultures being spread.
What forms cultural landscapes?
The flexibility of trade due to better transportation routes
The combining of agricultural and industrial practices
Religious conflicts in a dense area
Controversial issues dealt by the government in a highly populated country.
How is folk culture different from popular culture in terms of origin?
Folk culture is typically traced back to a specific person or place, especially in North America or Europe
Folk culture is typically traced back to a person of hierarchical status, such as a royal individual, especially in England or Britain
Folk culture is typically traced back to a religion, where it is a custom or behavior of adherents of that religion
Folk culture is typically anonymous because it comes from anonymous hearths, sources, dates, originators, or comes from multiple hearths
Why are folk cultures found in rural or isolated indigenous communities, rather than urban areas?
Folk culture is found on a small scale, is traditional to a homogeneous group, and is limited by lack of connections - diffusing mostly through relocation diffusion
Folk culture has customs that are not easily accepted by societies with a dominant popular culture, so therefore, it is only practiced within a small, rural group
Folk culture is only found on islands, and its diffusion is limited because of geographical barriers such as water or mountains
Folk culture is only present in developing countries, especially those in Africa with many ethnicities and nations, so therefore, it cannot be found in a developed area
How do languages, dialects, gender roles, religions, ethnic cultures, etc. diffuse from cultural hearths and result in the interaction between two cultures that lead to new forms of cultural expression?
By the absorbing of one culture into another, so the dominant culture is unaffected and the absorbed culture is obliterated.
By intermingling, so both cultures take on some of the traits of the other but retain their largest characteristics.
By not interacting, but keeping there difference so no changes made to either.
By the slow spreading of both, so they merge and become one new culture.
Why are ethnic religions generally found near the hearth or spread through relocation diffusion?
Lack of missionaries, appeals to one group and not all people
Welcomes anyone willing to adapt the belief system
Practiced by many people and has many interpretations
Small/ folk religion open for interpretation
Why are ethnic religions generally found near the hearth or spread through relocation diffusion?
Due to the appeal to all people not just those living in a particular location.
Due to the commonality of language spoken within a particular location.
Due to the heavy concentration of adherents in particular physical characteristics of a location.
Due to the homogeneous isolation from other groups,typically found in rural locations.
How would a culture diffuse throughout time?
A culture would diffuse throughout time because of forced migration from another group,though a long time period, with a different culture.
A culture would diffuse because of peaceful interactions of a culture with another group, these cultures would respect each other and as they interacted more they would understand one another better
A culture would diffuse through out time as interactions in trading; this expose a culture with many different cultures that would interact and spread there cultures through out these groups that they are trading with,this would lead to the diffusion of culture over time
A culture would diffuse over time as it was introduced to pop culture and diffused as more people found it appealing and choose to adopt this culture as their own and passing it to the next generation
How would a cultural trait diffuse throughout space?
A cultural trait would diffuse throughout space by the trait diffusing into pop culture which would make more people adopt this trait across more regions which would make the cultural trait found in many different places
A cultural trait would diffuse throughout space by the being spread into different regions through trading but would only diffuse into certain groups
A cultural trait would diffuse as people visit places with a certain trait that they bring back to their home and spread it to people in their own town
A cultural trait would diffuse throughout space as the culture trait spreads but eventually stops spreading but remains popular in the regions that they initially diffused too
How do ethnic and universalizing religions (and their geographic patterns) compare and contrast?
Ethnic religions appeal to all people, while universalizing religions are based on physical features of the area inhibited by its adherents
Ethnic religions mainly appeal to only the people living in a certain place, while universalizing religions are on a more global scale
Universalizing religions have less adherents because it is scattered to multiple areas, while the clustering of ethnic religions makes them overall more populous
Universalizing religions have looser interpretations due to their diffusion over broad areas, while the interpretation of ethnic religions is more exact due to locational isolation of its adherents
Explain the concept of culture and identify cultural traits.
Culture is communist rule, a cultural trait can be not having a religion.
Culture is the act in carrying religious actions, a cultural trait could be praying.
Culture includes acts or customs, that people of a certain people in an ethnicity or religion, a cultural trait can be something such as eating a food.
Culture is a dictatorship, a cultural trait could be the acts Hitler believed in, such as cleaning the society of Jews and things relating to them.
How are acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism shaped by the diffusion of culture?
They are shaped by cultural diffusion because, all have people spreading the culture in different ways.
They aren’t shaped by diffusion of cultures.
Cultural diffusion has shaped them by moving cultures away from each other, allowing for them to stay the same.
They are shaped by cultural diffusion because, all have people moving and combining or taking over another culture.
How are acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism shaped by the diffusion of culture?
A. Diffusion of culture doesn't shape them
B. It shapes then by changing one or more culture by overpowering or by influence.
C. It shapes them by making a melting pot of cultures.
D. Both B & C
How have colonialism, imperialism, and trade helped to shape patterns and practices of culture?
Through colonialism, imperialism, and trade, two or more cultures are exposed to each other, and are forced to interact. This can lead to assimilation, acculturation, and in some instances, cultural appropriation, shaping patterns and practices of cultures.
Colonialism, imperialism, and trade can influence cultures by non material culture only through two culture’s interactions with one another.
Cultural characteristics could be forced on one culture by the opposing culture through colonialism and imperialism. Said cultures could be permanently influenced and perhaps their norms and customs would change.
A culture’s patterns and practices could be distorted by the exposure to another culture’s non material culture and material culture.
Why is it that ethnic religions stay close to the hearth?
Ethnic religions stay close to the hearth because the people of the religion wish to keep i close and personal to their community.
Ethnic religions stay close to the hearth because they are closely tied to the physical geography of a specific place and are spread through relocation diffusion.
Because ethnic religions are spread through hierarchical diffusion and spread rapidly.
Because the people of the religion don’t want society to change the deep meaning of the religion.
Which definition matches with the right terms; folk and popular culture?
Folk Culture- Traditional culture; traditional cultural traits of a community.
Popular Culture- Totality of ideas, perspectives, memes, and images and other phenomenal that permeate the everyday lives of a given society, especially those heavily influenced by mass media.
Folk Culture- Totality of ideas, perspectives, memes and images and other phenomenal that permeate the everyday lives of a given society, especially those heavily influenced by mass media.
Popular Culture- Traditional culture; traditional cultural traits of a community.
Folk Culture- Culture of towns and cities.
Popular Culture- The established language, religion, behavior, values, rituals, and social customs of a society.
Folk Culture- The established language, religion, behavior, values, rituals, and social customs of a society.
Popular Culture- Culture of towns and cities.
How do languages, dialects, religions, cultures, and gender roles diffuse from cultural hearths leading to new forms of cultural expression?
Culture expands through relocation/expansion diffusion and acculturation takes place.
The culture expands through hierarchical diffusion only.
Culture expands through cultural ecology and acculturation occurs.
The culture expands solely through cultural appropriation.
How are specific cultural traits such as food preferences, architecture, or land use examples of culture?
They reflect the homogeneity of the culture
They reflect the diversity of the culture
They reflect the traditions and customs of the culture that can date back several hundred generations
They reflect certain aspects of life that are peculiar to that one specific culture
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What is an example of how culture is expressed in landscapes?
MECCA
RIO GRANDE
Appalachian MOUNTAINS
Sahara desert
Which answer choice correctly identifies the universalizing or ethnic religions with its geographic pattern?
Christianity; Australia
Buddhism; Southeast Asia
Hinduism; Latin-America/ Caribbean
Islam; Europe
Which is an example of how globalization is influencing cultural interactions and change?
Fast Food Chains
Western style clothing
English is the Lingua Franca
All of the above
Only clothing and language
Why are languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts essential in understanding landscapes that are symbolic of a cultural identity and what are some examples of these symbolic landscapes?
Languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts are essential in understanding landscapes of a cultural identity because they’re important
Languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts are essential in understanding landscapes of a cultural identity because those concepts are things that make up a culture
Languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts are essential in understanding landscapes of a cultural identity because they are easy things to identify
Languages, religions, ethnic & gender concepts are essential in understanding landscapes of a cultural identity because they help
Which of the following would not be an example of how globalization influences cultural interactions and change?
Jeans no longer being taboo in west Asian countries
A small village having telephone access after being isolated
A Sub-Saharan tribe finding getting easier transportation to needs
Your grandma moving closer to your household
Varying by a place and region, what could you best
describe as a cultural pattern and landscape?
A person wearing a toga in Egypt.
Making geometric masks in Africa.
Farming in the middle east.
People in the U.S. going to church.
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