AP Human Geography - Unit 3 (Culture)

Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced societies.

<p>A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or community, sharing experiences, customs, and traits while working to preserve them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of diffusion where an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The region from which innovative ideas and cultural traits originate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits when they come into contact with another society or culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures for their own benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A neighborhood typically situated in a larger metropolitan city, constructed by or composed of a local culture, where that culture can practice its customs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process through which something is given monetary value.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The effects of distance on interaction, where generally the greater the distance, the less interaction occurs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The social and physiological effects of living in a world where time-space convergence has rapidly intensified.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape, causing one place to look like another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A practice routinely followed by a group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social differences between men and women, rather than anatomical, biological differences between the sexes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How we make ourselves; how people see themselves at different scales.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another in different parts of an urban environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The area of social relations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether a place is defined for men or women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focuses on the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and highlights political engagement of 'queers'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bride is brutally beaten or killed for her father's failure to fulfill the marriage agreement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of contiguous dialects where the nearest dialects to each other are most closely related.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A slight change in a word across languages within a subfamily or through a language family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language linked to ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward toward the original language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to re-create the language that preceded it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A proposed ancestral language of Proto-Indo-European and other language families.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process where new languages are formed when a language breaks into dialects due to lack of spatial interaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from consistent spatial interaction of people with different languages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hypothesis proposing that three areas in the Fertile Crescent gave rise to three language families.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hypothesis holding that Indo-European languages first spread eastward into Southwest Asia before moving to the Balkans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Languages such as English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish that reflect the expansion of peoples out of Northern Europe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Languages such as Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and others that developed as Slavic people migrated from present-day Ukraine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A language that originated as a pidgin but was adopted as the mother tongue by a people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Countries in which only one language is spoken.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Countries in which more than one language is in use.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The language used most commonly around the world, often for commerce or trade.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated for life on earth, not to accommodate religious beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Religion located in Japan focusing on worship of nature and ancestor worship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Religion founded by Lao-Tzu, focuses on political rule and the oneness of humanity and nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>&quot;Wind-water&quot; - Chinese art of placement to channel &quot;life-breath&quot; in favorable ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Philosophy based on the writings of Confucius, traditionally part of Chinese culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora and establish a homeland in the Promised Land.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the three major branches of Christianity that arose from the Roman Empire division.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The branch of Christianity that arose from Rome after the division of the Roman Empire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the three major branches of Christianity that arose from challenges to the Roman Catholic Church.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Branch of Islam that accepts the traditions of Muhammad as authoritative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Branch of Islam that also accepts the traditions of Muhammad as authoritative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Places or spaces infused with religious meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Towers attached to a mosque from which a crier calls Muslims to pray.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boundaries between the world's major faiths.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boundaries within a single major faith.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>System of Islamic law based on varying interpretations of the Qur'an.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Doctrine within Islam, commonly translated as 'Holy War', representing a struggle to live up to religious standards.</p> Signup and view all the answers