Culture
The study of how cultures change over time is called what?
Cultural Geography
A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs is called a/an?
Isogloss
Remember: Pop vs. Soda
All evangelical religions, including Christianity and Islam are categorized as what?
Universalizing Religions
A culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women, their character, roles and divisions of labor are referred to as?
Gender
When you learn about the evolving landscape and spatial organization of the earth’s surface, what discipline are you learning?
The discipline of Geography
________________ culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits
Folk Culture
A language that allows speakers of two or more languages to communicate, especially for trade is called:
Lingua Franca
The belief that inanimate objects (e.g. trees, mountains, boulders) contain spirits is called what?
Animism
When we talk about how we make sense of ourselves, we are talking about our what?
Identity
What is the name of the area of the U.S. that is experiencing rapid population growth through both emigration and immigration?
The Sun Belt
The fact that trends in popular culture (e.g. fashion) proceed from large global centers (Milan, Paris, New York) through a series of progressively smaller cities is an example of what type of diffusion?
Hierarchical Diffusion
The systematic study of the origin and meaning of place names is called what?
Toponymy
Give an example of an intra-faith (boundary) conflict.
Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland
The term used to describe the process where new immigrants to a city often move into areas occupied by older immigrant groups is called?
Invasion and Succession
*Remember Chinatown*
Ideas in our minds, based on accumulated knowledge about a place is called what type of region?
Perceptual Region
With Distance Decay, the likelihood of diffusion _________________ as time and distance from the hearth ________________.
Decreases, Increases
Convergence processes yielding a synthesis of several languages to produce a pidgin language. When this language becomes the first language of a population it is referred to as a?
Creole Language
Buying a Native American styled dream catcher at a Wal-Mart store would possibly be an example of what?
Cultural Appropriation or Commodification
The changes in local culture brought about by the onslaught of popular culture tend to disrupt what the most?
Customs
Software that contains digitized place-specific information is called what?
Geographic Information Systems or GIS
When compared to _______ culture, _______ culture loses some of its distinctive characteristics as it crosses national boundaries
Popular Culture, Folk Culture
The two theories of the Proto-Indo-European language dispersal are the Conquest theory and _________?
Agriculture Theory; Renfrew Model
In terms of popular culture, cities like Paris, New York, and Milan are referred to as what?
Hearths
When an ethnic group of relatively new arrivals has been completely integrated into the economic and cultural mainstream of a society, that group is said to have been:
Assimilated
When we talk about the arrangement and organization of things on the surface of the earth what approach are we referring to?
The Spatial approach or idea.