Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes
Human Geo · Unit 3 · Paper 2

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 2” 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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Placelessness

2

Sacred space and pilgrimage

3

Toponym

4

Language extinction and revival

5

Folk vs popular culture

6

Sequent occupance

7

Cultural hearth

8

Acculturation, assimilation, syncretism

9

Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism

10

Religious diffusion patterns

11

Language family, branch and group

12

Universalizing vs ethnic religions

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Culture, cultural trait and cultural complex

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Lingua franca and pidgin

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Cultural landscape

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Multiculturalism

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.

Population geographers use the demographic transition model to compare countries at different stages of development. (A) Define the rate of natural increase. (B) Describe the relationship between crude birth rates and crude death rates in Stage 2 of the demographic transition model. (C) Explain why countries in Stage 2 typically experience the highest rates of population growth. (D) Using a specific example, explain one economic challenge faced by a country in Stage 5 of the model. (E) Explain how demographic momentum can cause a population to continue growing after fertility reaches replacement level. (F) Describe one antinatalist policy a government has adopted and one consequence of that policy. (G) Explain one limitation of using the demographic transition model to predict the future of a country in the periphery.