AP HUG: 3.1-3.3 Practice

What is an artifact?

• A behavior, like a certain way to prepare food, that belongs to a culture

• Something physical, like technology, belonging to a culture

• A shared belief by a culture

• A key political figure in a country

Which of this is NOT a part of the cultural landscape?

• The local architecture

• The weather

• How the environment is being used by locals

• How many schools there are

When culture begins to spread from its hearth to other regions on earth, this is called

• cultural creep

• cultural movement

• cultural diffusion

• cultural osmosis

Sequent occupance is seen when

• there are more pull factors than push factors

• there is evidence of previous cultures, as well as modern cultures, in a place

• there are multiple languages spoken by a population

• the dependency ratio is greater than .5

Areas with cultural differences can have factors that lead to political disintegration and make it difficult to unify the community. These factors are called

• disintegrating influences

• centrifugal forces

• shatterbelt regions

• zones of separation

• acculturation forces

The largest category a language can belong to is the

• Group

• Genus

• Family

• Branch

Two of the most widely used language families are

• Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European

• Australian and Dravidian

• Indo-European and Creole

• North Caucasian and Niger Congo

Which language is regarded as the world's lingua franca?

• French

• Pidgin

• Spanish

• English

Many tourists visiting St. Peter's Square see their journey to this place as a spiritual journey that is deeply meaningful. To these people, St. Peter's Square is a(n)

• vacation destination

• architectural treasure

• sacred space

• world heritage site

• iconic landmark

Many religions, when they expand into a new region, begin to incorporate some of the elements of the previous religious customs of the new adherents. This process is called

• globalization

• syncretism

• acculturation

• assimilation

• conversion