Vocabulary
Food, Language, and Culture
Diffusion
Countries and Capitals
Patterns and Processes
100

What do you call a place that does not have a religious influence?

Secular.

100

What would you call a physical object made by people of the same cultural group?

material culture

100

When two languages begin blending together, but do not create a full vocabulary, what kind of language is this?

A Pigin language

100

Which country has two capitals?

Bolivia

100
A large group of people speaking the same language is an example of which kind of force?

Centripedal.

200

What is a force that brings people together?

Centripetal force.

200

What would you call a group of people with a common ancestry and cultural tradition?

(Ex: Jewish people, Amish people, African-Americans)

Ethnic Group.

200

When two or more languages blend together and make an entire new (and full) dialect, what is this called?

A creole language.

200

Bogota is the capital of which Country in South America?

Colombia

200

Differing religions is an example of which kind of force?

Centrifugal.

300

What is something that divides people?

Centrifugal force.

300

What is it called when someone adheres to a new culture brought in by imperialism rather than rejecting it?

Assimilation

300

What kind of diffusion comes through foreign countries adopting McDonald's as a brand, but not the entire menu?

Stimulus Diffusion.

300

Georgetown is the capital of which South American Country?

Guyana

300

What is it called when you evaluate a culture's perspective without consideration of their culture?

Ethnocentrism.
400

What would you call a barrier that halts diffusion?

Absorbing barrier.

400

Seeing a different language on a sign than the dominant language signifies what type of cultural landscape?

Linguistic

400

Scenario: Memes about bacon and fascinations with Bacon would struggle to gain cultural significance in predominantly Muslim countries.

What kind of barrier to diffusion is this?

Absorbing Barrier. 

400

What is the capital of Venezuela?

Caracas

400

When you seek to understand another person's culture from a wider perspective—i.e. through trying to see things from their cultural point of view?

Cultural Relativism

500

What is a language that is spoken across wide numbers of areas that is not the mother tongue?

Lingua Franca

500

The Māori are native to New Zealand, practicing kaitiakitanga (guardianship and kinship with nature) and traditional haka dances. The Māori are and example of what?

An ethnic group

500

Many areas in Europe are becoming less and less religious, so the cultural impact of religion on a region is lessening. What is this an example of?

Secularization

500

What is the capital of Uruguay?

Montevideo

500

What do you call a place that has been controlled by many different groups over time? (It creates layers of a cultural landscape.)

Sequent Occupance

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