World Regional Geography Chapter 1
Questions and Answers
Physical arrangement of buildings, streets, parks, and architecture that gives each
city its unique sense of place. - Answer-Urban Form
The urban population grows more quickly than the provision of necessary support
services such as housing, transportation, waste disposal, and water supply. -
Answer-Overurbanization.
Illegal developments of makeshift housing on land neither owned nor rented by their
inhabitants. - Answer-Squatter Settlements
Shared behavior held in common by a group of people, empowering them with what
could be called a "way of life." - Answer-Culture
Active promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another. - Answer-Cultural
imperialism
The process of protecting and defending a cultural system against diluting or
offensive cultural expressions, while at the same time actively promoting national
and local cultural values. - Answer-Nationalism
The most common product of cultural collision is blending of forces to form a new,
synergistic form of culture. - Answer-Cultural syncretism, hybridization
A Religion, usually with an active missionary program that appeals to a large group
of people regardless of local culture and conditions. Christianity and Islam both have
strong universalizing components - Answer-Universalizing religions
Remain identified closely with a specific ethnic, tribal, or national group. (Do not
actively seek new converts, people are born into) - Answer-Ethnic religions
People consider themselves either nonreligious or outright atheistic. - Answer-
Secularization
A political entity with territorial boundaries recognized by other countries and
internally governed by an organizational structure. - Answer-State
A large group of people who share numerous sociocultural elements such as
language, religion, tradition, and identity. - Answer-Nation
Relatively homogeneous cultural group occupying its own fully independent political
territory. - Answer-Nation-state
A colony's gaining (or regaining) control over its own territory and establishing a
separate, independent government. - Answer-Decolonialization
Questions and Answers
Physical arrangement of buildings, streets, parks, and architecture that gives each
city its unique sense of place. - Answer-Urban Form
The urban population grows more quickly than the provision of necessary support
services such as housing, transportation, waste disposal, and water supply. -
Answer-Overurbanization.
Illegal developments of makeshift housing on land neither owned nor rented by their
inhabitants. - Answer-Squatter Settlements
Shared behavior held in common by a group of people, empowering them with what
could be called a "way of life." - Answer-Culture
Active promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another. - Answer-Cultural
imperialism
The process of protecting and defending a cultural system against diluting or
offensive cultural expressions, while at the same time actively promoting national
and local cultural values. - Answer-Nationalism
The most common product of cultural collision is blending of forces to form a new,
synergistic form of culture. - Answer-Cultural syncretism, hybridization
A Religion, usually with an active missionary program that appeals to a large group
of people regardless of local culture and conditions. Christianity and Islam both have
strong universalizing components - Answer-Universalizing religions
Remain identified closely with a specific ethnic, tribal, or national group. (Do not
actively seek new converts, people are born into) - Answer-Ethnic religions
People consider themselves either nonreligious or outright atheistic. - Answer-
Secularization
A political entity with territorial boundaries recognized by other countries and
internally governed by an organizational structure. - Answer-State
A large group of people who share numerous sociocultural elements such as
language, religion, tradition, and identity. - Answer-Nation
Relatively homogeneous cultural group occupying its own fully independent political
territory. - Answer-Nation-state
A colony's gaining (or regaining) control over its own territory and establishing a
separate, independent government. - Answer-Decolonialization
