AP Human Geography Chapter 4 UPDATED
Exam Questions And CORRECT Answers
Artifact - CORRECT ANSWER - Any item, made by humans, that represents a material
aspect of culture
Built environment - CORRECT ANSWER - The man-made surroundings that provide the
setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-
scale civic surroundings.
Cultural convergence - CORRECT ANSWER - The contact and interaction of one culture
to another.
Cultural/environmental perception - CORRECT ANSWER - The concept that people of
different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different
decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
Cultural landscape - CORRECT ANSWER - Modifications to the environment by humans,
including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects of their culture
Cultural realm - CORRECT ANSWER - The entire region throughout which a culture
prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet,
customs, or economic development.
Cultural hearth - CORRECT ANSWER - Locations on earth's surface where specific
cultures first arose.
Cultural trait - CORRECT ANSWER - The specific customs that are part of the everyday
life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of
popular culture.
, Cultural region - CORRECT ANSWER - a region defined by similar culture traits and
cultural landscape features.
Custom - CORRECT ANSWER - Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural
group.
Folk culture (folkways) - CORRECT ANSWER - Culture traditionally practiced by a
small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. Usually have a
subsistence economy
Food attraction - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types
of food.
Habit - CORRECT ANSWER - a repetitive act that a particular individual performs.
Material culture - CORRECT ANSWER - The physical manifestations of human activities;
includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture
Popular culture - CORRECT ANSWER - Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous
societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based
economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak
interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
Possibilism - CORRECT ANSWER - The theory that the physical may set limits on
human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a
course of action from many alternatives.
Taboo - CORRECT ANSWER - a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom.
placelessness - CORRECT ANSWER - loss of a distinct local feature in favor of
standardized landscapes. Happens as a result of the overtaking of popular culture and mass
production in an area
Exam Questions And CORRECT Answers
Artifact - CORRECT ANSWER - Any item, made by humans, that represents a material
aspect of culture
Built environment - CORRECT ANSWER - The man-made surroundings that provide the
setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-
scale civic surroundings.
Cultural convergence - CORRECT ANSWER - The contact and interaction of one culture
to another.
Cultural/environmental perception - CORRECT ANSWER - The concept that people of
different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different
decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
Cultural landscape - CORRECT ANSWER - Modifications to the environment by humans,
including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects of their culture
Cultural realm - CORRECT ANSWER - The entire region throughout which a culture
prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet,
customs, or economic development.
Cultural hearth - CORRECT ANSWER - Locations on earth's surface where specific
cultures first arose.
Cultural trait - CORRECT ANSWER - The specific customs that are part of the everyday
life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of
popular culture.
, Cultural region - CORRECT ANSWER - a region defined by similar culture traits and
cultural landscape features.
Custom - CORRECT ANSWER - Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural
group.
Folk culture (folkways) - CORRECT ANSWER - Culture traditionally practiced by a
small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. Usually have a
subsistence economy
Food attraction - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types
of food.
Habit - CORRECT ANSWER - a repetitive act that a particular individual performs.
Material culture - CORRECT ANSWER - The physical manifestations of human activities;
includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture
Popular culture - CORRECT ANSWER - Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous
societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based
economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak
interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
Possibilism - CORRECT ANSWER - The theory that the physical may set limits on
human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a
course of action from many alternatives.
Taboo - CORRECT ANSWER - a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom.
placelessness - CORRECT ANSWER - loss of a distinct local feature in favor of
standardized landscapes. Happens as a result of the overtaking of popular culture and mass
production in an area
