Ap Human Geography Units 3 4 Exam Review Flashcards

the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitutes a group’s distinct tradition

a single unit of culture (e.g. praying before eating)

the distinct combination of multiple traits (e.g. religion)

the region from which innovative ideas originate

the origin of a folk culture

the origin of a popular culture hearth

the region where a certain culture prevails

actions or processes involving the whole world and result in making something worldwide in scope

the belief that the physical environment solely caused human activities

the theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment

the division of a culture due to internal differences

multiple cultures becoming more alike due to globalization

the evolution of 2 separate groups to have similar traits due to similar circumstances

the culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

the culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

a conflict between different ethnicities

the ideas, beliefs,knowledge, and way things are expressed in a culture

the expected patterns of social interaction

the material objects and their uses needed to fill basic needs

the evolution of cultures over time

a new idea accepted into a culture

the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process

the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

the spread of a feature or trend from one key person/node of authority to other persons/places

the spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature

the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features

the process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another more dominant group

the coexistence of different cultures in a society

identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland/hearth

loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

a system of communication through the use of speech

a collection of languages related through a common ancestor long before recorded history

a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence

a collection of languages that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary

the division of two dialects that have become so different due to physical separation as to become separate languages

the form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications

the language adopted for use by a government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages

a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a language franca used for communications among speakers of two different languages

a language that results from mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

the study of the distribution of languages

a set of beliefs and practices

a place where religious figures meet and perform ceremonies

a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location

a religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated

a religion that has existed for a long time as part of folk culture

a religion whose leader has magic and can communicate with the spiritwort

the belief that inanimate objects have spirits

an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs

a homogenous group of people that inhabitant the same area

a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.

an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension

a state with a long, narrow shape

a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory

a state that completely surrounds another one

a part of a country not connected to the mainland

(a part of) a country completely surrounded by another one

an invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory

a boundary that follows a physical feature

a boundary drawn by humans

an argument over the placement of a boundary

a conflict over thethe interpretation of documents defining a boundary or the way its is shown on the ground

a conflict over the ownership of a given area

a conflict over the use of resources created or complicated by a boundary

a conflict over the policies applied at a border

an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

an attitude that tends to divide people and lessen support for a state

loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality

an internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to Units of local government

an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of the central government

a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity

political control over a territory

cultural and economic power over a country/territory

the desire of a group to be autonomous

the theory that stated that if one country fell to communism, then its neighbors would do so as well

the break up of a state

a process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

a complete enumeration of a population

the redrawing of electoral boundaries based on census resultes

the addition/removal of seats in a district

the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

a region caught between 2 other conflicting regions