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.