AP Human Geography Chapter 6: Religions

Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

• migrants leave their religion behind when they migrate to a new area

• religion always represents the most traditional worldveiws of a population

• many people follow more than one religion

• all religions are in competition to convert as many people as possible

• religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

Animists believe that

• people should complete God's creation of earth

• inanimate objects and natural events have spirits

• people should make complete use of Earth's resources

• natural disasters are preventable

• enlightenment can be achieved by all people

The belief in the existence of only one God is

• animism

• cosmogony

• monotheism

• polytheism

• pagan

beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

• animism

• cosmogony

• monotheism

• astroomy

• polytheism

The world's largest ethnic religion is

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Hinduism

• Shintoism

• Islam

The maps and diagrams in this chapter help us surmise that a person from northern Germany is more likely to be an adherent of

• Protestantism

• Roman Catholic

• Judaism

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• a fundamentalist Christian sect

The maps in this chapter indicate that Eastern Orthodoxy is a branch of Christianity prevalent in

• Russia

• Italy

• Spain

• Russia and Spain but not Greece

• Greece and Germany but not Russian

A review or the maps in this chapter indicates that in northeastern Canada,

• all of the people are Catholic

• the great majority of the people are Catholic

• nearly all of the people are protestant

• the population is almost equally divided between Catholics and Protestants

• about three fourths of the people are Protestant and one fourth are Catholic

The world's largest universalizing religion is

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Shintoism

Which is a branch of Christianity?

• Druze

• Eastern Orthodox

• Shiite

• Theravadist

• Judaism