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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 3 VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 3 VOCABEXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Acculturation - answer-adoption of the behavioural 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 - answer-able to speak two languages
Buddhism - answer-a religion of buddha that teaches that life is permeated with
suffering caused by desire
Confucianism - answer-the teachings of confucius that encourage love for humanity
Contagious diffusion - answer-rapid and widespread diffusion
Creole - answer-mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
Cultural determinism - answer-the belief cultural that influences determine the behaviors
and personalities of people
Cultural diffusion - answer-spread of cultural ideas from one society to another
Cultural ecology - answer-geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment
interactions
Cultural geography - answer-human geography that looks at how cultures vary over
space.
Cultural hearths - answer-place of origin of a culture
, Cultural landscape - answer-visible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape
Cultural relativism - answer-practice of judging a culture by its own standards
Cultural transmission - answer-process by which one generation passes culture to the
next
Culture complex - answer-related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a
society's behavior or activity
Culture region - answer-area in which people have many shared culture traits
Culture system - answer-collection of interacting elements taken together shape a
group's collective identity
Culture trait - answer-single element of normal practice in a culture
Daoism - answer-philosophical system of lao-tzu and chuang-tzu that emphasizes a
simple, honest life
Dialect - answer-usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
branches off of a language
Diaspora - answer-a group migration of people with common roots
Durkheim's sacred and profane - answer-sacred is the religious world
Profane is the secular world (world withoyut religion)
Eastern orthodox - answer-a branch of christianity that derives from the byzantine
church
Environmental determinism - answer-view that the natural environment has a controlling
influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development
Ethnic religion - answer-religion with a concentrated spatial distribution
Ethnocentrism - answer-belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
Extinct religion - answer-religion that is extinct
Folk culture - answer-culture usually practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group
living in relative isolation from other groups
Folk culture region - answer-an area where many people who live in a land space share
at least some traditions or customs
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