Geography Chap. 7
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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 - This hunter and gathering group is most associated with the Arctic Circle
- Inuits
- Ancient Mesopotamia is an example of
- culture hearth
- Regions of important new ideas and developments are called
- culture hearths
- Growth in proportion of people living in towns and cities is called
- Urbanization
- This crop is known as the most widely cultivated plant in the world today
- wheat
- This crop originated in Mexico and Central American around 5-6 thousand BC
- Maize
- The study of world people and how they live and how their activities vary from one place to another
- cultural or human geography
- The fact that teenagers might eat with knives and forks is an example of this
- culture trait
- The adoption of U.S. blue jeans throughout the world is an example of this
- acculturation
- This hunter gatherer group is closely associated with Australia
- Aborigines
- This hunter gatherer group is closely associated with the Kalahari Desert
- San (Bushmen)
- The world is divided up into nearly ____ countries
- 200
- During what centuries did industrialization spread in Western Europe?
- eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Throughout the world, cultures are mixing and mingling to form a new
- world culture
- What is a key term in understanding human geography?
- culture
- Name the causes of cultural conflict
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Nationalism
Religion
Traditional versus Modern values
Politics
Economics - Name the characteristics of culture
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language
religion
government
economics
food
clothing
architecture
family life - Feeling of pride and loyalty for one's country
- Nationalism
- This limits the amount of a good that can be imported
- quota
- In what type of government does only one person and a few advisors govern?
- totalitarian government
- This is usually a two way process in which each culture changes the other
- acculturation
- What is the basic food for more than half the world's population?
- grain
- The world's resources are ___________ distributed
- unevenly
- What is the main way of life for most of human history?
- hunting and gathering
- South America is a majority _____ continent
- Roman Catholic
- This crop originated in South America near the Andes Mt. more than 4000 yrs. ago
- Potatoes
- This is probably the most important cultural trait?
- Language
- Geographers believe that agriculture first appeared about _____ years ago
- 10,000
- In what part of the world did agriculture first appear?
- Western Asia
- What country is considered a Shintoist nation
- Japan
- What two religions are practiced in Sudan?
- Islam and other local religions
- What two countries are examples of one country being a single cultural region?
- France and Japan
- A good portion of the world's ___ population is located in Northern Africa
- Islam
- Most Indonesians are what religion?
- Islam
- When did cities first appear?
- 5000 years ago
- Boat building, which was developed independently by people all around the world would be an example of
- innovation
- What is the more common type of agriculture in the United States?
- Commercial agriculture
- One of the best examples of cultural diffusion is the spread of
- languages
- This dramatically altered the earth's physical and human geography
- How people have used the land to acquire their resources
- When an innovation spreads into another cultural region, which then adopts that element into its own culture, it is called
- acculturation
- What are the basic needs of all humans
- food, clothing, shelter, and water
- The predominant religion of Thailand is
- Buddism
- Why was the development of agriculture an important innovation?
- changed how people interacted with their environments
- What two continents are predominantly Roman Catholic?
- South America and Central America
- On what continent do you know you would find a Jewish population
- Europe