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Which of the following represents a possibilist interpretation of human activity?
Shanghai developed into a world city because of its navigable rivers.
Lesoto's economy has not developed to be globally competitive because of its lack of water access.
Minnesota's people are usually quieter than Florida's because of the harsher weather people endure in Minnesota.
Germany's success in gaining land early in World War II was linked to its use of coal deposits in the Ruhr region, which facilitated a more powerful military.
Civilization was born in arable areas because fertile land created human innovation beyond nomadic lifestyles.
A formal caste system of socioeconomic segregation based on family and occupation was prominent in which country's tradition?
Vietnam
Russia
India
Saudi Arabia
China
If a Spanish speaker and a French speaker come together to conduct trade and revert the authentic form of English they both learned in their schools, English is known to them as a(n)
creolized language
language branch
isogloss
pidgin language
lingua franca
In the 1800s, Czar Peter the Great of Russia returned to Russia from his travels in Europe and taught his people Western-style dance. This diffusion of Western-style dance is closely an example of
cultural convergence
sequent occupance
folk culture
cultural isolation
theocracy
Which of the following lists religions that all started in Southwest Asia?
Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
Islam, Judaism, Christianity
Shintoism, Sikhism, Judaism
Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism
Judaism, Animism, Buddhism
Which of the following is the dominant language family in India?
Sino-Tibetan
Dravidian
Afro-Asiatic
Indo-European
Altaic
The above image comes from Beijing, China, ans is of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that bought out and replaced a local family's restaurant. Some might argue this is an example of
language replacement
creolized language
cultural imperialism
ethnic enclave
ghettoization
A geographer studying the northern Canadian Inuit culture's intricate river navigation routes is best described as analyzing
demography
cultural ecology
linguists
territorial morphology
boundary classification
In which of the following countries has conflict related to its multilingualism escalated to widespread threats of secession?
United States
Germany
Japan
Canada
India
Which of the following is most closely an example of nonmaterial culture?
Blue Jeans
Indian naan bread
Dome of the Rock
Teachings of Confucianism
New England saltbox house style
Which of the following has the highest concentration of Muslims?
Vatican City
Northern Ireland
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
The excitement created by attending a Bon Jovi concert diffused in a pattern with an epicenter, or (node), that followed Bon Jovi's band as it toured through Europe between large ans small towns in no particular order. About two weeks after Bon Jovi's visit, the excited crowds in each city died down and returned to normal lifestyles, while sometimes listening to his CDs in their homes. The pattern of excitement surrounding the traveling Bon Jovi concert in best classified as
hierarchical diffusion
migrant diffusion
stimulus diffusion
reverse hierarchical diffusion
contagious diffusion
Which of the following is a universalizing religion?
Shintoism
Judaism
Islam
Confucianism
Taoism
In which region does shamanism currently have the highest presence?
Western Europe
North America
Sub-Saharan Africa
South America
Southwest Asia
An adherent of which of the following religions would most likely a pilgrimage to the holy place shown in the above picture from Amritsar, India?
Islam
Hinduism
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Sikhism
Buddhism
Which prominent geographer in the 20th century championed the study of cultural landscapes and built environments in human geography?
Ellen Churchill Semple
Walter Christaller
Carl Sauer
Joel Garreau
Alfred Weber
What are the two major branches of Islam?
Sunni and Shintoism
Shiite and Sunni
Sunni and Shamanism
Shiite and Shamanism
Shiite and Shintoism
The simplest component of a culture is a
culture trait
culture complex
culture system
cultural diffusion
cultural identity
Religions that attempt to attract all people to their beliefs are known as
ethnic religions
universalizing religions
monotheistic religions
polytheistic religions
syncretic religions
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the holiest site for which religion?
Buddhism
Shintoism
Hinduism
Sikhism
Islam
What is the world's fastest-growing religion?
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Judaism
Which language has become the world's primary lingua franca?
Mandarin Chinese
Hindi
German
Spanish
English
The following structure would most likely be found in which country?
Ecuador
Germany
India
Thailand
Israel
Which of the following is the largest proselytizing religion?
Hinduism
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Shintoism
Regionalization would best explain the characteristics of the study of
popular culture
adaptive strategies
built environment
material culture
folk culture
Which of the following best exemplifies folk culture?
A dialect that is similar in two different regions in the country
The purchasing of rap music by white suburban youth
Cajun music
Eating Chinese food in New York City
The burial of the dead
Where is the hearth of country music?
Galveston, Texas
Montgomery, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville, Tennessee
Charlotte, North Carolina
A good example of a monolingual country would be
Japan
Canada
Switzerland
South Africa
Turkey
When European settlers established relations with Native Americans, a new language was created to ease translation for both groups. What is that language called?
Constitutional language
Trade language
Creole language
Official language
Indigenous language
Which of the following religions is the best example of a polytheistic religion?
Shintoism
Judaism
Atheism
Christianity
Islam
When Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca to observe the Kabah, which of the five pillars of Islam are they practicing?
Shahadah
Salah
Zakat
Sawm
Hajj
Where in the United States does Roman Catholicism dominate?
southern New England
Southwest
Pacific Northwest
Southeast
A & B only
Many Islamic states in the Middle East region combine religion and state and don't separate them. This is an example of what?
Monotheism
Plural society
Democracy
Theocracy
Multilingual society
The two primary Eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism each have their hearths located where?
Jerusalem, Israel
Western Saudi Arabia
Eastern China
Southeast Asia
Northern India
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the most important holiday in which religion?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
What language is known as the lingua franca of Eastern Africa?
Hindi
English
French
Swahili
Zulu
What percentage of the world's languages are expected to die out within the next century?
90 percent
75 percent
50 percent
25 percent
10 percent
Which distinctive cultural region in the United States has its own food, music, and language along the border with Mexico?
Italian-American
Swedish-American
Cajun
Creole
Tex-Mex
Which of the following is the best example of folk food?
Hamburgers in the United States
Pizza in the United States
McDonald's french fries in Germany
KFC in China
Blowfish in Japan
The modern game of soccer (football) spread to many parts of the world because of British colonization. This is an example of ____________ diffusion.
expansion
hierarchical
relocation
stimulus
contagious
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