Lightning Vocab
This is the stuff people do, think about, possess, and share.
What is Culture?
Immigrants are often expected to do this, and change their culture to fit into the new society they live in.
What is assimilation?
The biggest problem in making a two-dimensional map is this.
What is distortion?
All religions have ideas about things being separate, or holy, known as this.
What is sacred?
The biggest factor in the development of new human language is this activity.
What is migration?
The process by which historians make history and write about it.
What is historiography?
Children reading about creation stories are hearing these, stories that may not factually true but teach a belief held to be true.
What is a religious myth?
On a map, this shows how a distance corresponds to one in real life.
What is a scale?
Religions may have received their understanding of these from a deity, or made up themselves.
What are ethics?
English and Spanish share the Indo-European language as their common single ancestor, so they belong to this.
When a territory is controlled by a sovereign government, it is this.
What is a state?
This way of categorizing people looks at their culture and ancestral connections.
What is ethnicity?
An attempt at reducing errors of the Earth's surface, cartographers create these.
What are projections?
Large groups that are connected by their culture are known as this.
What is a nation?
An area that can be grouped together based on having similar culture (i.e. Anglo-America, Latin-America).
What is a cultural region?
This is calculated by dividing total population by land area, and used to determine how crowded a place is.
What is population density?
Widespread immigration during the early 1900s saw an increase in many European cultures' this.
This kind of map shows changes in elevation over an area.
What is a topographical map?
This is an area that is sovereign, but only has one major cultural group.
What is a nation-state?
Television, radio, and the Internet are all a part of the creation of this cultural phenomenon.
What is popular culture?
A cultural hearth is also known by this term.
What is an origin?
The US Constitution's First Amendment is a modern example and element of this type of society with many cultures living together.
What is pluralism?
These maps are useful for displaying data, especially election data or population information.
What are cartograms?
When society is welcoming and supportive of different groups of people, it supports this idea.
What is multiculturalism?
The English language saw its biggest transformation after 1066 and the invasion of this group.