Multiple choice from Unit 3 (Cultural Geography Part I) test
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| 50128337 | According to Marvin Harris, Jews and Muslims do NOT eat pork because ________ | the environment of the Middle East is not conductive to raising pigs | |
| 50128338 | Carl Sauer | geographer who developed the Berkeley School of interpreting cultural landscapes | |
| 50128339 | The cultural hearth of the Indo-European language family | Turkey (near where Anatolia would have been in the past) | |
| 50128340 | Saltbox houses can be found in which region of the US? | New England | |
| 50128341 | According to Marvin Harris, which is a wasteful practice? Kwakiutl Potlatch, Maring Pig Love, Hindu Cow Love, or none of them? | None of them | |
| 50128342 | Marvin Harris would be considered a _________ | cultural relativist | |
| 50128343 | The "shared set of meanings" of culture include ___________ | religious practices, family values, ideas about gender roles, and technology uses | |
| 50128344 | Involves the study of the mutual interactions of space, place, and landscape with culture | Cultural geography | |
| 50128345 | cultural landscape | results from the action of a cultural group within and on a landscape | |
| 50128346 | Confirmation of 12-year-old boys and girls in the Roman Catholic Church is best described as _____________ | rite of passage | |
| 50128347 | Characteristics of Folk Culture include __________ | located on a small scale, passed down by oral tradition, usually does not impact the environment | |
| 50128348 | Of a language family, branch, group, and dialect, which one is most likely to encompass the largest number of languages? | Language family | |
| 50128349 | What language family do both Spanish and French belong to? | Indo-European | |
| 50128350 | About 50% of the global population speaks languages belonging to this language family __________ | Indo-European | |
| 50128351 | Of a symbolic landscape, derelict landscape, node, or cultural hearth, the Central Park shopping area would be most considered __________ | a node | |
| 50128352 | Spread of popular culture impacts the environment by ________ | increasing population, uniforming landscapes, and increasing demand for natural resources | |
| 50128353 | Of professional sports, fast food restaurants, blue grass music, and brand name clothing, which one is not an example of pop culture? | Blue Grass music | |
| 50128354 | Pidgin | a language that develops to allow communication between peoples coming in contact with each other but speaking different languages | |
| 50128355 | isogloss | the lines dividing areas of differing dialects within a country speaking the same language | |
| 50128356 | toponymy | the study of place names | |
| 50128357 | Which of the following cultures practices pig love? Islam, the Maring, the Yanomamo, or the Amish | The Maring | |
| 50128358 | Because it's buildings are modeled after those of the relatively democratic Greek city-states of ancient times, the landscape created by the federal government in Washington, D.C., is best thought of as __________ | symbolic landscape | |
| 50128359 | According to Carl Sauer, what is the medium of change in the development of culture? | Time and Natural landscape | |
| 50128360 | semiotics | the practice of writing and reading cultural signs | |
| 50128361 | What is the tribe in the Amazon that practices abuse of women as part of their gender relations? | the Yanomamo | |
| 50128362 | Of French, English, Hindi, Arabic, and Russian, which is not an Indo-European language? | Arabic | |
| 50128363 | Marvin Harris believes the witch-hunts of Medieval Europe to be the product of ________ | efforts of the Catholic Church to maintain power | |
| 50128364 | Of Saudi Arabia, France, the US, and Quebec, which is least likely to engage in cultural nationalism? | Saudi Arabia | |
| 50128365 | Cultural nationalism | is exemplified by France's efforts to protect its language from "Americanization" |
