MIDTERM AP HUMAN GEO DSHS

A pilgrim to Varanasi (Benares) in India is most likely to be a:

Hindu

Comparing both photographs each imagine shows the significance of temples, religious statuary, and iconography on the:

Cultural Landscape

Which Scenario best explains the process of assimilation?

The American government educated Native American children in American-style boarding schools. All of the children were taught English, and girls were taught to be homeschooled.

Cultural differences within a country’s population, such as different religions, and ethnics, have political impacts and can best be described as:

centrifugal forces within a state

Which of the following describes the process of creolization?

The mix of Native American, African, and European influences to create new cultural forms.

Which of the following statements best explains why English is the most widely spoken language in North America?

The English language initially diffused to North America through the process of relocation diffusion. A number of colonies were established and settled by people from Great Britain.

Which of the following scenarios best exemplifies the concept of hierarchical diffusion?

The increasing sales of clothing brands endorsed by professional athletes to customers in Europe

An ethnic neighborhood is best described as which of the following?

A voluntary urban community where people of similar origin reside.

Which of the following best explains how Christianity became the dominant religion in the Philippines?

Christianity was brought to the Philippines through relocation diffusion when the Spanish colonized the Philippines in the sixteenth century.

The Indo-European language family includes the major languages of Europe and those dominant in all the following regions EXCEPT:

Central Asia

The principal religion of Central and South America is:

Roman Catholicism

Christianity has expanded through repeated patterns of relocation diffusion to spread to the Americas. Which of the following explains impacts of this diffusion on Christianity in the Americas?

The repeated relocations have resulted in a wide diversity of Christian religious beliefs and practices

Swahili in East Africa and English in global commerce are examples of:

lingua franca

Which of the following do Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have in common?

The United States initially dominated with the worlds highest percentage of users.

Which of the following terms best describes the food preferences, architecture, and land-use practices found in a particular region?

Culture traits

Which of the following originated in South Asia subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?

Buddhism

As Buddhism diffused through East Asia, Buddhist traditions blended with local cultural customs to create distinct religious practices, such as Daoism in China and Shinto in Japan. Which of the following terms best describes this blending of cultural traditions?

Syncretism

Which of the following religions is appropriately matched with its region of origin?

Buddhism… India

Identify which of the following concepts or processes is symbolized by the pagoda in the image..

Cultural trait

Cultural landscape can be defined as:

the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

Which of the following statements explains the regional location in the United States where the figures shown in the image are most likely part of the cultural landscape?

The Southwest, because residents are influenced by Spanish Catholicism.

Which of the following is most accurate with regard to food preferences and taboos?

Some foods are avoided for religious or cultural reasons even at the expense of a balanced diet.

According to the figure above, which of the following choices best describes the changes in interaction as distance increases?

It decreases

A world map of hog production per capita would reveal the lowest values in which of the following regions?

The Middle East

If four languages have similar words for numbers and the names of fish, but different names for a certain disease, what might be concluded about the time at which the disease first diffused?

The population divided and evolved into the four different languages, and then the disease spread.

Which of the following best accounts for the universal appeal of blue jeans?

Diffusion of popular culture

The spread of the use of chopsticks into Southeast Asian countries with the influx of Chinese immigrants is an example of which of the following concepts?

Relocation diffusion

In which of the following countries has the diffusion of Christianity met the most resistance?

China

The diffusion pattern of Walmart stores, which have spread from small towns to large cities throughout the United States, is an example of:

reverse hierarchical diffusion

Which of the following is a term used in the study of place names?

Toponyms

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Hinduism?

It is a universalizing religion

The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States, particularly in South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida. It is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects. one can describe Gullah as a:

creolized language

How does the map illustrate global diffusion of the French language from its cultural hearth in Paris?

The map shows how in many areas of the former French empire in language persists despite the independence of former colonies.

Which of the following terms best describes the spatial effects of the Internet on the global diffusion of culture?

Time-space convergence

Which of the following religions is predominant in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota?

Lutheran

Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

Built Environment

The term “cultural diffusion” refers to the

spread of an idea or innovation from its source

The map shows the distribution of the language family that has the largest number of speakers in the world. Which statement correctly identifies the language family shown and the method of diffusion that best explains the pattern?

The map shows the distribution of the Indo-European language family, which diffused from tis hearth in the Caucasus Mountains and spread throughout Eurasia through contagious diffusion and into the Americans, Africa, and Australia through colonialism and relocation diffusion.

Cities in India have a competitive advantage over cities in China as locations for international consumer services, such as call centers and bill processing. This advantage has its origins in which of the following?

The English language legacy of British colonialism in India

The photograph shows a road sign in the Republic of Ireland. Which of the following best describes the sign’s significance within the cultural landscape?

The sign promotes the use of traditional language among citizens of the Republic of Ireland.

Sometimes a diffusion process encounters barriers that slow or stop the spread of an innovation. Which of the following is an example of such a barrier?

A lack of infrastructure to support a new technology.

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical:

large heterogeneous groups

Which of the following best exemplifies the diffusion of popular culture throughout the world in contemporary society?

The spread of an Internet meme via social media applicants

The spread of specialty coffee shops across the United States in the 1990’s is an example of

hierarchical diffusion

The urban linguistic landscape shown in the photograph above is most likely found in a region where which of the following languages is spoken?

Arabic

The state of California, often considered a hearth of environmental laws, will be the first state to ban plastic straws. Which of the following statements best describes the likely spread of this environmental practice?

Similar environmental laws will likely spread through stimulus diffusion to other states via political activism.

Identify the cultural trait that influences the architecture of the cultural landscape shown in the image.

Religion

In the late nineteenth century, a large proportion of Swedish immigrants that came to the United States settled in rural areas of Minnesota. Descendants of these communities remain in Minnesota today, as shown in the map. Which of the following best describes the pattern of Swedish-American ethnicity within Minnesota’s cultural landscape?

A clustered pattern of Swedish ethnicity

Which of the following is true of popular culture?

It incorporates traits that diffuse quickly to a wide variety of places.

The world’s three major monotheistic religions originated in which of the following religions?

Southwest Asia