Geography Test 2 Set Two

Front 1

What are the dominant universalizing religions?

Back 1

Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

Front 2

a large and fundamental division within a religion.

Back 2

branch

Front 3

a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.

Back 3

denomination

Front 4

a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.

Back 4

sect

Front 5

attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just those of one culture or location.

Back 5

universalizing religion

Front 6

appeals to primarily one group of people living in one place.

Back 6

ethnic religion

Front 7

the third of the world's major universalizing religions, has nearly 400 million adherents, who are found mainly in China and southeast asia.

Back 7

buddhism

Front 8

the distinctive ethnic religion of japan.

Back 8

shintoism

Front 9

belief that there is only one god

Back 9

monotheism

Front 10

worshipping a collection of gods

Back 10

polytheism

Front 11

a literal interpretation and a strict and intense adherence to basic principles of religion

Back 11

fundamentalism

Front 12

the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu was assigned according to religious law.

Back 12

caste system

Front 13

The attribute of membership in a group distinguished by racial, territorial, economic, religious, cultural, aesthetic, and linguistic uniqueness.

Back 13

ethnicity

Front 14

identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor

Back 14

race

Front 15

the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas

Back 15

apartheid

Front 16

a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Back 16

ethnic cleansing