WORLD CULTURES
This cultural practice involves traditions, beliefs, and customs passed down through generations.
What is culture?
This invention made it easier to share information during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
This imaginary line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is money earned from working a job.
What is income?
This is the smallest social unit and usually includes parents and children.
What is a family?
This holiday, celebrated in many countries, marks the start of a new year based on the lunar calendar.
What is Lunar New Year?
This tool helped ancient sailors navigate using stars.
What is an astrolabe?
This landform is higher than a hill and often part of a range.
What is a mountain?
This term means saving money to use later.
What is saving?
This term refers to shared expectations about how people should behave.
What are social norms?
This ancient civilization is known for its mythology, gods like Zeus, and the Olympic Games.
What is Ancient Greece?
This innovation allowed food to be preserved for long periods.
What is refrigeration?
This type of climate is hot and dry with little rainfall.
What is a desert climate?
This refers to the cost of something compared to what you give up to get it.
What is opportunity cost?
This word describes a person’s position or role in a group.
What is social status?
This term refers to a group of people who share language, traditions, and history.
What is an ethnic group?
This transportation invention dramatically changed trade and travel in the 1800s.
What is the steam engine?
This body of water is smaller than an ocean and usually surrounded by land.
What is a sea?
This happens when the price of goods and services increases over time.
What is inflation?
This is the process of learning values and behaviors of a society.
What is socialization?
This process occurs when different cultures blend together through contact.
What is cultural diffusion?
This invention allowed people to communicate instantly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This term describes how people adapt to their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
This term describes a plan for spending and saving money.
What is a budget?
This term refers to differences among people, including culture, language, and traditions.
What is diversity?