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human geo test 2
Question | Answer |
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Culture is transmitted by imitation, instuction, and __________. | Example. |
What is the most important transmitter of culture ? | Language. |
True or False : Trait is the largest item of culture. | False; It's the smallest. |
Define culture realm. | A composite region summarizing the spatial association of a number of culture traits. |
What says that physical enviornment only shapes culture ? | Enviornmental determinism. |
Define possiblism ? | The viewpoint that humans are the active agents in shaping culture. |
True or False : The culture landscape is the Earth's surface modified by human action. | True. |
What is the Pleistoscene Overkill ? | 10,000 years ago the sudden disappearence of whole species of animals. |
What caused the Chaco Canyon desolation? | Deforestation. |
What happens to the form of government as the scale increases ? | The more formal the gonvernment gets. |
What significance did the Neolithic era have ? | The creation of tools and technologies that helped humans go from hunter gathers to agriculture. |
True or False : the Agriculture revolution is more than a revolution then a evolution | False : More of an evolution than a revolution. |
What is Multilinear Evolution ? | Happens when unconnected culture hearths display comparable characteristics. |
What are two indicators of civilization ? | Writing, Metallurgy, Astronomy, Government, urbanization, etc. |
Whats does cultural convergence imply ? | That the world populations increasinly share common technologies. |
Define Ideological. | Consists of idea's, beliefs, and knowledge of a culture. |
True or False : Sociological subsystems is the interlocking nature of all aspects of a culture. | False; It has to do with interpersonal and group behaviors. |
Give an example of Sociological subsystems. | Schools, religions, governments. |
What is cultural integration ? | The interlocking nature of all aspects of a culture. |
What is innovation ? | When a changes as a result of ideas developed within the social group itself. |
What is synonomis with innovation? | invention. |
Define culture lag. | When a social group is unresponsive to a useful innovation. |
Give an example of contagious diffustion. | Flus, diseases. |
True or False : Hierarchial diffusion spreads to less prominent people, and then to more prominent. | False: Visa Versa. |
Give an example of stimulus diffusion. | Charokee language. |
Define acculturation. | When an immigrant population takes on the values, attitudes, customs and speech of a receiving society. |
Define Sycretism. | The forming of a new trait by fusion of two different parent traits. |