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

6

Language family, branch and group

7

Placelessness

8

Toponym

9

Religious diffusion patterns

10

Folk vs popular culture

11

Culture, cultural trait and cultural complex

12

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

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Agricultural land use reflects both economic models and technological change. (A) Identify the type of agriculture Von Thünen’s model places in the ring nearest the market. (B) Explain why that activity locates nearest the market in the model. (C) Explain how refrigerated transport has weakened the predictive power of Von Thünen’s model. (D) Define the Green Revolution. (E) Using a specific region, explain one positive economic effect of the Green Revolution. (F) Explain one environmental cost associated with Green Revolution agriculture. (G) Explain how commercial agriculture in the core differs from subsistence agriculture in the periphery with respect to inputs and market orientation.