Intro to Geography Exam 4: part 6
According to the map below (Figure 7.27, pg. 264), of these four major world religions, the one which has experienced worldwide dispersion is?
Christianity
The spread of AIDS in a region is an example of
Contagious Diffusion
Determination of the critical distance can be affected by
Cost, effort, and time
Which of the following statements about culture is not true?
Culture is genetically tied and transmitted as a racial characteristic.
Within the United States, directional biases favor information flows between
East & West
It is believed that the Indo-European protolanguage originated about 5,000 years ago in
Eastern Europe or southern Russia.
Among the reasons for migrating, push factors
Encourage relocation away from original residence areas
Which one of the following is an example of an ethnic group?
Mexican Americans
The process of the fusion of old and new cultural forms and practices by contact with outside groups is termed:
Syncretism
A language may be defined as
an organized system of speech communication.
Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity have been called "universalizing" religions because each
claims universal applicability and seeks converts
Pidgin and creole languages are distinguished from one another by the fact that pidgin
is always a second language for all its speakers; creole has become a distinctive first language of a society.
The cultural landscape
is the earth's surface as modified by human action.
Ethnicity always contains a spatial or territorial implication.
true
Spatial diffusion declines rapidly with distance. With migration behavior, one expects places close to one another to have a greater rate of migration than places far from one another.
true
Syncretism implies the fusion of old and new culture traits into a new, composite form.
true
The sociological subsystem of a culture expresses accepted patterns of interpersonal and group behavior and agreed-upon institutions.
true
Value systems that are nonreligious in nature tend not to be binding on the societies that hold them.
false
We form place opinions and perceptions only on the basis of personal experience.
false
Which one of the following languages belongs to the same language subfamily with English?
German
The spread of travel agencies, first to larger cities and then to smaller population centers, is an example of a pattern referred to as
Hierarchical
A religion that teaches that a person's status in this life is determined by his/her existence in previous lives is
Hinduism.
Which of the following religions has remained dominant in its area of origin?
Islam
Change within culture groups is induced by
diffusion and innovation.
Territoriality is the spatial expression of one's mental map.
false
The elements of the sociological subsystem of a culture include all of the following EXCEPT
language
Acculturation is the term applied to
the process by which one culture group adopts the characteristics of another, dominant group.