Elements of Culture
Expressions of Culture
Cultural Change
Key Vocabulary
Regions & Patterns
100

This element of culture allows people to communicate and share beliefs.

Answer: What is language?


100

A central characteristic shared by most members of a culture.

Answer: What is a culture trait?


100

The spread of ideas and practices from one culture to another.

Answer: What is cultural diffusion?


100

Culture is the set of beliefs, behaviors, and ______ shared by a group of people.

Answer: What are traits?


100

The United States and Canada make up one of these broad cultural units.

Answer: What is a world culture region?


200

This system helps people in a culture work together to meet basic needs.

Answer: What is a social system?


200

Dance, music, and visual arts are examples of this group of cultural elements.

Answer: What are expressions of culture?


200

This revolution increased how quickly ideas spread around the world in modern times.

Answer: What is the Information Revolution?


200

A traditional behavior practiced by people in a group.

Answer: What is a custom?


200

Asia is divided into multiple culture regions. Name one.

Answer: What is South Asia, East Asia, or Southeast Asia?


300

Governments help cultures by maintaining order, providing protection, and offering these.

Answer: What are services to citizens?


300

This term refers to a place where people share similar ways of life, such as language or religion.

Answer: What is a culture region?


300

A culture hearth is an early center of civilization where these spread outward.

Answer: What are ideas and traditions?


300

The movement of people from one place to another.

Answer: What is migration?


300

Geographers study culture from this perspective to find patterns and relationships among people.

Answer: What is a spatial viewpoint?


400

People are not born with culture; instead, they do this to gain it.

Answer: What is learn it from people around them?


400

This part of culture shapes how people view the world, based on past events and experiences.

Answer: What is history?


400

This type of movement of people can be voluntary or involuntary.

Answer: What is migration?


400

The term for broad areas of the world that share cultural similarities.

Answer: What are culture regions?


400

This major revolution shifted societies from farming to manufacturing and accelerated cultural diffusion.

Answer: What is the Industrial Revolution?


500

Name two elements of culture besides language and religion.

Answer: What are social systems, government, and economic activities?

500

Outward displays of culture, such as greetings or celebrations, are known as these.

Answer: What are customs?

500

This global process connects cultures politically, economically, and socially.

Answer: What is globalization?

500

The process in which global economic, political, and cultural systems spread across the world.

Answer: What is globalization?

500

Early centers of civilization like Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley are examples of these.

Answer: What are culture hearths?