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Unit 1: Geography, Its Nature and Perspectives Test

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  1. Relocation Diffusion
  2. Culture Complex
  3. Culture System
  4. Spatial Perspective
  5. Cultural Landscape
  1. a A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
  2. b observing variations in geographic phenomena across space
  3. c Cultural complexes have traits in common such as ethnicity, language, religion and others
  4. d a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture
  5. e sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances
  2. The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person - analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
  3. The position of place of a certian item on the surface of the Earth as expresed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude, 0° to 90° north or south of the equator, and longitude, 0° to 180° east or west of the Prime Meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
  4. A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region.
  5. a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it

5 True/False Questions

  1. AssimilationProcess by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture

          

  2. PatternThe sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.

          

  3. Physical GeographyOne of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography.

          

  4. Acculturationthe modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend

          

  5. DistributionThe arrangement of something across Earth's surface