Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes
Human Geo · Unit 3 · Paper 1

Cultural Patterns & Processes unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
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Language extinction and revival

2

Cultural landscape

3

Universalizing vs ethnic religions

4

Cultural hearth

5

Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism

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Language family, branch and group

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Placelessness

8

Toponym

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Religious diffusion patterns

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Folk vs popular culture

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Culture, cultural trait and cultural complex

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Sacred space and pilgrimage

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Multiculturalism

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Sequent occupance

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Acculturation, assimilation, syncretism

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Lingua franca and pidgin

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

NO STIMULUS. Languages, religions, and other cultural traits diffuse across space at different rates and by different mechanisms.

A. Define cultural diffusion.

B. Describe the difference between a universalizing religion and an ethnic religion.

C. Describe one example of hierarchical diffusion.

D. Explain how relocation diffusion differs from expansion diffusion.

E. Explain one reason lingua francas develop.

F. Explain how physical geography can create a barrier to cultural diffusion.

G. Explain one way globalization contributes to the loss of local languages.