All About Culture
This is a way of life for a group of people. It is sometimes known as the "blueprint for living."
What is Culture?
How would you describe the absolute location of Mrs. Liebowitz's classroom to someone else?
Room 258. Can't be a relative location.
A body of land that is completely surrounded by water on all sides is known as:
What is an island?
Evidence created by people or things that were present at the time of the event is known as:
What is a Primary Source?
In your own words, what is an Enduring Issue?
Identify three examples of culture:
Culture can be: (Food, Language, Clothing, Music, Religion, Traditions and Customs, Sports, Hobbies etc.)
How would you describe the relative location of the Freedom Tower to someone else?
Answers will vary, can't use an address or exact location.
A large, dry area of land with little to no precipitation (rain) is known as:
What is a desert?
Evidence created by people or things who did not experience the events first-hand during the time of the event being studied is known as:
What is a Secondary Source?
Identify three examples of the enduring issue of Conflict:
What is (fighting, arguing, battles, wars etc.)
When cultures are exchanged, blended, or combined with each other and sometimes create new ideas, beliefs, foods, and languages, this is known as:
What is Cultural Diffusion?
Identify two characteristics that the states of New York and New Jersey share in common because of them both being in the "Northeast Region" of the United States:
What are (being densely populated, located near shoreline or the coast, cities and suburbs, experiences all four seasons etc.)
A body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water is known as:
What is a peninsula?
Identify three examples of a Secondary source:
What are textbooks, documentaries, encyclopedias, research websites, and biographies?
All of the following examples shown below are examples of which type of Enduring Issue?
-Drought
-Famine
-Overcrowding
What is Scarcity?
This is when a person or a group of people think that their culture is superior (better than) to another culture.
What is Ethnocentrism?
People living in the Andes Mountains what would use rope bridges and carve roads into the sides of mountains to get around from place to place. This would be an example of what theme of geography?
What is Movement?
Identify four geographic features that a physical or topographical map of the would show of the area where Frost Valley is located:
(What are mountains, rivers, streams, valleys, hills, trees, lakes, ponds, etc.)
Identify four examples of a Primary source:
What are diaries, songs, paintings, photographs, letters, speeches, and artifacts?
What would be three enduring issues that would come about as a result of a war (conflict) going on within a country?
What is Scarcity, innovation, interconnectedness, security, power, environmental impact etc?
Why would traveling to/visiting different countries be one of the best ways to learn about other people's cultures?
It allows you to experience that different or new culture first hand.
It is a primary source for someone else's culture.
It is a more personal experience than reading about it in a book.
(Answers will vary)
Identify 3 ways that people who live in the Sahara Desert would have to adapt to their environment:
(Wear light clothing, always be on the lookout for water, be nomadic, would use camels to move around from place to place, minimal food, etc.)
What is a political map?
What is a newspaper?
What enduring issue is best being shown by the famous quote shown below?
“One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself!” ― Vladimir Lenin
What are Ideas and Beliefs?