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AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Questions and Answers 2025
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AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocabacculturation - answer adoption of the behavioral patterns of the surrounding culture
animism - answer doctrine that everything natural has a soul
artifacts - answer ancient objects made by human beings
assimilation - answer process of adding new ideas
Baha'i - answer follower of Bahaism
behaviors - answer observable actions or responses of humans or animals
beliefs - answer ideas that people hold to be true
bilingualism - answerable to speak two languages
Buddhism - answer a religion of Buddha that teaches that life is permeated with
suffering caused by desire
Confucianism - answerthe teachings of Confucius that encourage love for humanity
contagious diffusion - answerrapid and widespread diffusion
creole - answermother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
cultural determinism - answerthe belief cultural that influences determine the behaviors
and personalities of people
cultural diffusion - answerspread of cultural ideas from one society to another
cultural ecology - answergeographic approach that emphasizes human-environment
interactions
cultural geography - answerhuman geography that looks at how cultures vary over
space.
cultural hearths - answerplace of origin of a culture
cultural landscape - answervisible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape
, cultural relativism - answerpractice of judging a culture by its own standards
cultural transmission - answerprocess by which one generation passes culture to the
next
culture complex - answerrelated set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a
society's behavior or activity
culture region - answerarea in which people have many shared culture traits
culture system - answercollection of interacting elements taken together shape a
group's collective identity
culture trait - answersingle element of normal practice in a culture
Daoism - answerphilosophical system of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu that emphasizes a
simple, honest life
dialect - answerusage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
branches off of a language
diaspora - answera group migration of people with common roots
Durkheim's sacred and profane - answersacred is the religious world
profane is the secular world (world withoyut religion)
Eastern Orthodox - answera branch of Christianity that derives from the Byzantine
Church
environmental determinism - answerview that the natural environment has a controlling
influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development
ethnic religion - answerreligion with a concentrated spatial distribution
ethnocentrism - answerbelief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
extinct religion - answerreligion that is extinct
folk culture - answerculture usually practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group
living in relative isolation from other groups
folk culture region - answeran area where many people who live in a land space share
at least some traditions or customs
folk life - answercomposite culture of folk societies
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