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

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Sequent occupance

7

Cultural hearth

8

Acculturation, assimilation, syncretism

9

Cultural relativism vs ethnocentrism

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Religious diffusion patterns

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Language family, branch and group

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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

TWO STIMULI. Source 1, "Minority Language Schools in Canada" (Statistics Canada): a national map shading each province and territory by its French-English bilingual population, with triangles marking minority-language schools (schools teaching in the less common official language — English in Quebec, French elsewhere). Quebec is in the highest band (2,000,001–3,898,980 bilinguals); Ontario is in the 1,000,001–2,000,000 band; British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia/New Brunswick fall in 100,001–1,000,000 (New Brunswick with a dense cluster of schools); Saskatchewan, PEI and Newfoundland lower; the northern territories lowest. School triangles cluster where bilingual populations are largest — southern Ontario, southern Quebec, New Brunswick — and thin out westward and northward. Source 2, "Schools by Language in Montreal and Ottawa" (Statistics Canada): a map of the Ontario-Quebec border region showing metropolitan boundaries, with yellow circles for English-language schools and blue squares for French-language schools. Around Montreal (in Quebec), French schools dominate with a substantial cluster of English schools concentrated in the metropolitan core. Around Ottawa (in Ontario), English schools dominate with a marked cluster of French schools inside the metropolitan area near the Quebec border. Each city's minority-language schools cluster within its metro area.

A. Using the data shown in Source 1, identify the province or territory with the largest bilingual population.

B. Describe one type of region shown in Source 2.

C. Using the data shown in Source 1, describe the relationship between the number of bilingual speakers and the pattern of minority language schools in Canada.

D. Language is a characteristic of the cultural landscape. Describe another characteristic of the cultural landscape.

E. Explain how a historical process, such as technological change or colonialism, has affected language patterns.

F. Explain how a city can engage in a process of globalization.

G. Explain how the patterns shown in Source 2 illustrate the concept of multiculturalism.