ap human geography unit 3

What is the difference between the number of immigrants and the number of emigrants?

The migration of people to a specific location because relatives previously migrated there.

A permanent move within the same country is…

Two hundred years ago it might have taken weeks to travel from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast. Today it takes a few hours. This phenomenon is called _______

• placelessness

• cultural homogenization

• convergence hypothesis

• glocalization

• time-space convergence

A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they are spread

• Cultural Hearth

• Minority Religion

• An Ethnic Group

• Universalizing Religion

What might explain the historical, cultural, and linguistic diversity in the Caucasus Region on the map?

• political borders that separate groups of people

• languages that separate groups of people

• religions that separate groups of people

• waterways that separate groups of people

• mountains that separate groups of people

What is an alphabetic language?

• English

• Arabic

• Hebrew

• Thai

• Japanese

Folk Culture is

• Homogenous

• Rural

• Slowly Changing

• All of the above

The image shown was taken in Ketchikan, Alaska. Which of the following best explains the process illustrated by the image?

• Through the process of migration, people from Texas and New York brought their cultures to Alaska.

• Through the process of population growth, small villages in Alaska are rapidly expanding and becoming multicultural urban areas.

• Through the process of uniculturalism, multiple types of foods are blended together into one cuisine.

• Through the process of ethnocentrism, American culture has spread throughout the world.

• Through the process of diffusion, ethnic cuisines may change the cultural landscape in locations far from their hearths.

The theory that cultures are becoming more alike as a result of globalization trends is the ___________

• cultural adaptation theory

• placelessness theory

• convergence hypothesis

• time-space convergence

• glocalization