Cultural Geography
The mix of values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that form(i.e. cultivate) a people’s way of life.
Culture
Places that reveal a society’s cultural identity through nature as well as through architecture and artifacts.
Cultural Landscape
The material culture of an individual will help us to identify the cultural traits, such as social norms, behaviors, and values that were taught at birth via the family or the community.
False
Correct Response: Non-Material Culture
A book would be considered a part of ones...
Material Culture
The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.
Ethnocentrism
The study of how and why cultures differ based upon location and the resources available to them.
Cultural Geography
A landscape that is consciously designed to embody the cultural ideals of the designer(s).
Designed Landscape
Culture helps us to identify the values, beliefs, and material objects of a society's culture.
True
A religious belief or practice would be considered...
Non-Material Culture
The process of the less dominant culture adopting the traits of the more dominant one.
Acculturation
The spread of culture to areas surrounding the cultural hearth.
Cultural Diffusion
A landscape that is created when people use a certain space over a long period of time.
Vernacular Landscape
Marriage would be considered an independent invention.
True
Material Culture
When the less dominant culture loses native customs completely.
Assimilation
Cultural traits that develop in many hearths apart and have limited interaction with one another.
A landscape that is important because of a historical event, activity, or person.
Historic Site
Location and the resources available hardly play a role in the development of a culture or civilization.
False
Correct Response: Location and resource accessibility always play a role in the development of a culture or civilization.
Material Culture
The practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards.
Cultural Relativism
The area where a cultural trait first begins.
Cultural Hearth
A landscape that contains both natural and cultural resources important to a certain group of people.
Ethnographic Landscape
Students becoming interested in anime and learning more about Japanese culture would be considered cultural ecology.
False
Correct Response: Cultural Diffusion
A child who grew up believing in the Tooth Fairy would be considered...
Non-Material Culture
The relationship between the natural environment, personal resources within that environment, and how it influences that culture.
Cultural Ecology