**NOTE** most of the questions on the study guide have been said to be on the midterm from past ap students. These questions are NOT on here, this is mostly for final exam but a lot is on Midterm
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| 1128566418 | A single attribute of culture is called a | culture trait | 0 | |
| 1128566419 | The best example of cultural integragation ( where all elements of society are interwoven with the dominant culture) in the united states is | the mormon culture region | 1 | |
| 1128566420 | the area of origin of a culture is called | culture hearth | 2 | |
| 1128566421 | a geographic assemble of related culture regions is | a culture realm | 3 | |
| 1128566422 | Which of the following areas is not considered a cultural realm? | New England | 4 | |
| 1128566423 | Which of the following is an example of a formal cultural region? | The Bible Belt | 5 | |
| 1128566424 | A group of related cultural traits is a | culture complex | 6 | |
| 1128566425 | The theory that the physical environment causes social and cultural development is called | environmental determinism | 7 | |
| 1128566426 | The best example of cultural integration (where all elements of society are interwoven with the dominant culture) in the united stated is | the Mormon culture region | 8 | |
| 1128566427 | Which of the following regions is considered a vernacular culture region? | The American South | 9 | |
| 1128566428 | Cultural Diffusion is | the spread of culture traits from one group to another | 10 | |
| 1128566429 | culture is spread by | all of the above | 11 | |
| 1128566430 | this is the process by which a less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of a more dominant culture | acculturation | 12 | |
| 1128566431 | this is the process by which a less dominant culture adopts the traits of a more dominant culture adopts the traits of the more dominant culture so completely that the two cultures become indistinguishable | cultural assimilation | 13 | |
| 1128566432 | Today, an estimated ______ illegal immigrants living in the US | 10,000,000 | 14 | |
| 1128566433 | The type of movement that involves journeys that begin at and brings us back to our home base is called | cyclic | 15 | |
| 1128566434 | all of the following are examples of periodic movements except | commuting to work | 16 | |
| 1128566435 | the long-term relocation of an individual, household, or group to a new location outside the community of origin is called | migration | 17 | |
| 1128566436 | during the first decades of the twentieth century, African americans families in the united states migrated primarily to | other southern states farther west | 18 | |
| 1128566437 | In the united states during the late twentieth century, internal migration streams were moving people from | east to west and south to north | 19 | |
| 1128566438 | internal migration in peru is fairly simple with the majority moving to | Lima | 20 | |
| 1128566439 | the smallest number of slaves involved in the atlantic slave trade was sent to | british north america | 21 | |
| 1128566440 | between 1788 and 1838, tens of thousands of convicts were shipped from britain to which continent? | Australia | 22 | |
| 1128566441 | What is the model which states that spatial interaction between places (e.g. migration) is directly related to the population size and inversely related to the distance between them? | gravity model | 23 | |
| 1128566442 | according to Ravenstein , migrants who move longer distances tend to choose | big-city destinations | 24 | |
| 1128566443 | in terms of total number of refugees, ____ is the geographic realm most severely affected by refugee problems. | tropical africa | 25 | |
| 1128566444 | one recent refugee crisis in southwest asia took place in 1991, when, in the aftermath of the gulf war, the ____ population of northern iraq was forced to leave their villags and flee across the turkish and iranian borders | Kurdish | 26 | |
| 1128566445 | Today, the largest refugee numbers in southest asia are reported from | mymanmar (burma) | 27 | |
| 1128566446 | in 1995, the collapse of which of the following european countries produced the largest refugee crisis in europe since the end of world war 2 | yugoslavia | 28 | |
| 1128566447 | in 1997, the only country in the western hemisphere that had a serious refugee problem was | colombia | 29 | |
| 1128566448 | in the period from 1882-1907, the united states congress passed exclusionary immigration laws designed to keep _____ out of the immigrant stream | chinese | 30 | |
| 1128566449 | today, mahor internal migrations in the united states are toward the sunbelt and western states. (true or false) | true | 31 | |
| 1128566450 | when migrants move along or through kinship links, this is called chain migration. (true or false) | true | 32 | |
| 1128566451 | sri lanka, because of its buddhist religion, has never experienced significant refugee problems. (true or false) | false | 33 | |
| 1128566452 | hutterites differ from the Amish in that they______ | accept modern technology | 34 | |
| 1128566453 | ______culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits. | folk | 35 | |
| 1128566454 | which is an example of a non-material aspect of culture? | burning of incense | 36 | |
| 1128566455 | in terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New York, and Milan are referred to as | hearths | 37 | |
| 1128566456 | Buying a Native American-styled dream catcher at a wal-mart store would possibly be an example of | cultural appropriation | 38 | |
| 1128566457 | the makah of washington state reinstituted ______ as a means of solidifying their culture and reconnecting with their past. | whaling | 39 | |
| 1128566458 | The building of a sense of community identity around the idea of "swedish-ness" in Lindsorg, Kansas is an example of | assimilation | 40 | |
| 1128566459 | Urban local cultures as in Brooklyn, New York and North End Boston, Massachusetts are seens as positive examples of _____________, places as cultural persistence. | ethnic neighborhoods | 41 | |
| 1128566460 | Cultural appropriation for purposes of profit (e.e, naming a beer for a Lakota as an example ofakota chief) is referred | commodification | 42 | |
| 1128566461 | geographer david Harvey refers to increasing speed by which innovations in popular culture diffuse as | time-space compression | 43 | |
| 1128566462 | Local "extreme sports" , such as skateboarding, rapidly spread by being featured in | video games | 44 | |
| 1128566463 | japan is a hearth of global popular culture that influences north america with | animated films | 45 | |
| 1128566464 | a group in people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share customs and traits are referred to as a local culture (true or false) | true | 46 | |
| 1128566465 | local cultures are distinctive in that they are stable over time (true or false) | false | 47 | |
| 1128566466 | popular cultures can change rapidly in periods as short as days or even hours (true or false) | true | 48 | |
| 1128566467 | the spread of clothing styles from paris or new york to regional mall store and finally to shops near your local college, is an example of hierarchical diffusion (true or false) | true | 49 | |
| 1128566468 | commodification of local culture often leads to stereotypical images of that culture (true or false) | true | 50 | |
| 1128566469 | a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community and who share experience, customs, and traits are referred to as a | local culture | 51 | |
| 1128566470 | the fact that trends in popular culture (e.g. fashion) proceed from large global centers (Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of progressively smaller cities is an examples of | hierarchical dissfusion | 52 | |
| 1128566471 | government efforts to discourage native practices and languages in the united states and canada were attempts to _______ natives groups | assimilate | 53 | |
| 1128566472 | According to Gillian Ross, "identity" is | how we make sense of ourselves | 54 | |
| 1128566473 | race is | socially constructed | 55 | |
| 1128566474 | skin color is a matter of pigmentation, a protective element against strong radiant from the sun. The pigment is called | melanin | 56 | |
| 1128566475 | according to the census bureau, the most residentially segregated metropolitan area of african americans is | milwaukee, wisconsin | 57 | |
| 1128566476 | hispanic new yorkers are mostly (65%+) | puerto rican/ dominican | 58 | |
| 1128566477 | when places are "designed" either for women or men they are said to be | gendered | 59 | |
| 1128566478 | groups in northern ireland and gangs in major us cities "exclusive" areas by | graffiti demarcating territories | 60 | |
| 1128566479 | in 1990, all of the regions showed rising female employment except | sub-saharan | 61 | |
| 1128566480 | it is estimated that _____% of the sub-saharan realm's food is produced by females | 70 | 62 | |
| 1128566481 | in india the breaking of a dowry contract may lead to | a beating or killing of the wife (dowry death) | 63 | |
| 1128566482 | barrio is the spanish term for | neighborhood | 64 | |
| 1128566483 | most of the workers in maquiladoras are | young females | 65 | |
| 1128566484 | in the 1910s, segregation of the Chinese in Oakland, California was | the result of "white only" zoning laws | 66 | |
| 1128566485 | in the sub saharan realm, _______ remains the rule rather than the execption | male dominance | 67 | |
| 1128566486 | indigenous peoples of south India, New Guinea, and Australia are about as dark skinned as native Africans due to their close genetic relationship. (true or false) | false | 68 | |
| 1128566487 | Invasion and succession is the term used to describe the process where new immigrants to a city often move into areas occupied by older immigrant groups (true or false) | true | 69 | |
| 1128566488 | rural Africa is demographically male dominated. (true or false) | true | 70 | |
| 1128566489 | banks in Sub-Saharan Africa will not lend money to rural women. (true or false) | true | 71 | |
| 1128566490 | the belief that inanimate objects (e.g. treese, mountains, boulders) contain spirits is | animism | 72 | |
| 1128566491 | Zoroastrianism is similar to Islam and Christianity in that it is | monotheistic | 73 | |
| 1128566492 | which of the following is NOT generally a characteristic of an ethnic religion? | always polytheistic | 74 | |
| 1128566493 | One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it | emerged without a prophet, book of scriptures, and without evolving a bureaucratic structure comparable to those of Christian religions | 75 | |
| 1128566494 | the fundamental doctrine of the Hindu faith is | karma | 76 | |
| 1128566495 | Sikhism is a small compromise religion that arose from the confrontation between Hinduism and | Islam | 77 | |
| 1128566496 | Buddhism has its source in | India | 78 | |
| 1128566497 | The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Guatama, who came to be known as the Buddha ( enlightened one) was perhaps the first prominent Indian religious leader to | speak out against the Hindu caste system | 79 | |
| 1128566498 | Buddhism thrives in all of the areas except | India | 80 | |
| 1128566499 | Tibetan buddhism is of the ______ type | Lamaism | 81 | |
| 1128566500 | Geomancers, those who know the desire of the spirits and ancestors, dragons and tigers occupying the natural world are associated with | feng-shui | 82 | |
| 1128566501 | the jews of central Europe are known as | Ashkenzim | 83 | |
| 1128566502 | the disaspora of the Jews resulted from | the Roman destruction of Jerusalem | 84 | |
| 1128566503 | The ideology of Zionism has its goal | a homeland for Jewish people | 85 | |
| 1128566504 | the largest contituency of Christianity is | Roman Catholicism | 86 | |
| 1128566505 | The African country where a major cluster of Eastern Orthodox churches survive is | Ethiopia | 87 | |
| 1128566506 | The youngest major religion | Islam | 88 | |
| 1128566507 | Modern-day Shiah Islam dominates a region centered on | Iran | 89 | |
| 1128566508 | The Hajj, one of the "pillars of Islam," is | the pilgrimage to Mecca | 90 | |
| 1128566509 | the world's largest dominantly Islamic state is | Indonesia | 91 | |
| 1128566510 | The rise of secularism and decline of religious membership are found in | Europe | 92 | |
| 1128566511 | Jerusalem is a sacred place for | Jews, muslims, Christianty | 93 | |
| 1128566512 | The pagoda is the style of building most often assiciated with | the Buddhist faith | 94 | |
| 1128566513 | Which of the following U.S. regional associaction is INCORRECT | Southwest-Mormon | 95 | |
| 1128566514 | which is NOT a feature of Islamic sacred architecture | Frescoes depicting the life of th prophet | 96 | |
| 1128566515 | Christianity is an example of a polytheistic religion (true or false) | false | 97 | |
| 1128566516 | Secularism is not a force in Roman Catholic countries (true or false) | false | 98 | |
| 1128566517 | What would be considered a cultural tranisition zone? | Southwest USA- Northern Mexico, Southern Florida, Eastern Ontario-Western Quebec, Poland | 99 | |
| 1128566518 | Belgium is a _____ speaking country | Flemish (germanic language) and French (romance language) | 100 | |
| 1128566519 | Hawaii and Louisiana are examples with | official bilingual policies | 101 | |
| 1128566520 | standard Italian is the version of the language spoken in | Florence and Tuscany | 102 | |
| 1128566521 | Dialects are most often marked by the actual differences in | vocabulary | 103 | |
| 1128566522 | a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs is called a/an | isogloss | 104 | |
| 1128566523 | there are __ principle language families of the world | 20 | 105 | |
| 1128566524 | the most widely used Indo-European language today is | English | 106 | |
| 1128566525 | The predominant languages spoken on Madagascar are not of an African language family, but belong to | Austroneasian family | 107 | |
| 1128566526 | Two Russian scholars have established the core of what they believe is a pre-Proto-Indo-European language named | Nostratic | 108 | |
| 1128566527 | The language tree diagram of language divergence has some branches with dead ends. These represent | extinct languages | 109 | |
| 1128566528 | The Indo- European language family prevails on the map of europe. Which country listed below has a language which is not in the Indo-European family? | Hungary | 110 | |
| 1128566529 | Subsequent migrations and empire building caused the decline and marginalization of this subfamily which had brought Indo-European languages to European 3,000 years ago | Celtic | 111 | |
| 1128566530 | Bantu migrations marginalized this once widespread African languag family which is now found only in dry regions of southwestern Africa | Khoisan family | 112 |
