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46 Cards in this Set
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Name two concepts important in understanding how culture changes
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innovation-new ways to do things that are useful and valuable
diffusion- when an innovation or cultural trait spreads into another culture |
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This hunter and gathering group is most associated with the Arctic Circle
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Inuits
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Ancient Mesopotamia is an example of
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culture hearth
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Regions of important new ideas and developments are called
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culture hearths
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Growth in proportion of people living in towns and cities is called
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Urbanization
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This crop is known as the most widely cultivated plant in the world today
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wheat
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This crop originated in Mexico and Central American around 5-6 thousand BC
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Maize
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The study of world people and how they live and how their activities vary from one place to another
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cultural or human geography
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The fact that teenagers might eat with knives and forks is an example of this
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culture trait
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The adoption of U.S. blue jeans throughout the world is an example of this
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acculturation
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This hunter gatherer group is closely associated with Australia
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Aborigines
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This hunter gatherer group is closely associated with the Kalahari Desert
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San (Bushmen)
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The world is divided up into nearly ____ countries
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200
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During what centuries did industrialization spread in Western Europe?
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eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Throughout the world, cultures are mixing and mingling to form a new
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world culture
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What is a key term in understanding human geography?
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culture
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Name the causes of cultural conflict
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Nationalism
Religion Traditional versus Modern values Politics Economics |
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Name the characteristics of culture
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language
religion government economics food clothing architecture family life |
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Feeling of pride and loyalty for one's country
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Nationalism
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This limits the amount of a good that can be imported
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quota
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In what type of government does only one person and a few advisors govern?
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totalitarian government
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This is usually a two way process in which each culture changes the other
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acculturation
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What is the basic food for more than half the world's population?
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grain
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The world's resources are ___________ distributed
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unevenly
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What is the main way of life for most of human history?
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hunting and gathering
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South America is a majority _____ continent
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Roman Catholic
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This crop originated in South America near the Andes Mt. more than 4000 yrs. ago
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Potatoes
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This is probably the most important cultural trait?
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Language
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Geographers believe that agriculture first appeared about _____ years ago
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10,000
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In what part of the world did agriculture first appear?
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Western Asia
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What country is considered a Shintoist nation
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Japan
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What two religions are practiced in Sudan?
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Islam and other local religions
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What two countries are examples of one country being a single cultural region?
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France and Japan
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A good portion of the world's ___ population is located in Northern Africa
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Islam
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Most Indonesians are what religion?
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Islam
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When did cities first appear?
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5000 years ago
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Boat building, which was developed independently by people all around the world would be an example of
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innovation
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What is the more common type of agriculture in the United States?
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Commercial agriculture
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One of the best examples of cultural diffusion is the spread of
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languages
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This dramatically altered the earth's physical and human geography
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How people have used the land to acquire their resources
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When an innovation spreads into another cultural region, which then adopts that element into its own culture, it is called
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acculturation
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What are the basic needs of all humans
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food, clothing, shelter, and water
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The predominant religion of Thailand is
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Buddism
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Why was the development of agriculture an important innovation?
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changed how people interacted with their environments
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What two continents are predominantly Roman Catholic?
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South America and Central America
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On what continent do you know you would find a Jewish population
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Europe
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