Language and Religion (unit 3)
The ability to speak two languages is called _______
Bilingualism
What is to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give an unfair advantage to one party in elections
Gerrymadering
What was an international organization created in 1949 for collective security started in the north atlantic?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals?
Agriculture
What is the cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed by cutting and burning
What is slash and burn?
what is the combination of two languages to create a new one
Creole
What is a boundary that no longer exists?
Relic Boundary
What is the treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain?
What is the Warsaw Pact
What is the cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
Aquaculture
what is the cultivation of crops in tropical forest clearings in which forest vegetation has been removed?
What is shifting cultivation
What is the monotheistic religion which started with a man named Abraham obeying God.
Judaism
What is a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape that ignores pre-existing cultural patterns?
What is a superimposed boundary
What is an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
What is the United Nations?
What is large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology?
Commercial Agriculture
What is the science of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants?
What is Horticulture?
Monotheistic religion of Muslims
Islam
What is a boundary that developed with the evolution of the cultural landscape and is adjusted as the cultural landscape changes?
What is a Subsequent boundary
What is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994?
What is MERCOSUR?
What is the practice of rotating the use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil?
Crop rotation
What is the manual clearing of rows in the field though the use of hoes, rakes, and other manual equipment?
What is intertillage?
What is are the three main ethnic religions?
Judaism, Hinduism, and Shintoism
What is the Phase in which the boundary is visibly marked on the landscape by a fence, line, sign, wall or other means?
What is the Demarcation phase in boundary process?
What is the members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas? It is the world's oldest regional organization
What is the Organization of American States?
a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
Double Cropping
What is the approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs
What is organic agriculture?