AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - UNIT 3
(CULTURE) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
Culture - Answer-The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns
shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
Folk Culture - Answer-cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and
institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
Popular Culture - Answer-Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and
are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies.
Local Culture - Answer-Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a
collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, traits, and who work to
preserve those traits and customs.
Material Culture - Answer-The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods and other
similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
Nonmaterial Culture - Answer-The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of
people.
Hierarchal Diffusion - Answer-A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads
by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is
usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with
geographic distance a less important influence.
Hearth - Answer-The region from which innovative ideas and cultural traits originate.
Assimilate - Answer-The process through which people lose originally differentiating
traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact
with another society or culture.
Cultural Appropriation - Answer-The process by which cultures adopt customs and
knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
Neolocalism - Answer-The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in
response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
Ethnic Neighborhood - Answer-Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitian
city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can
practice its customs.
, Commodification - Answer-The process though which something is given monetary
value.
Distance Decay - Answer-The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater
the distance the less interaction.
Time-space Compression - Answer-The social and physiological effects of living in a
world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.
Cultural Landscape - Answer-the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape
Placelessness - Answer-Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of
uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
Diffusion Routes - Answer-The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other
phenomena spread.
custom - Answer-practice routinely followed by a group of people
neolocalism - Answer-The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in
response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
authenticity - Answer-in the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with
which the single sterotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise
dynamic and complex local culture or its customs
reterritorialization - Answer-with respect to popular culture, when people within a place
start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their
local culture and making it their own
folk-housing regions - Answer-A region in which the housing stock predominantly
reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long
inhabited the area.
glocalization - Answer-The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter
regional, national, and global processes
global-local continuum - Answer-the notion that what happens at the global scale has a
direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa.
gender - Answer-Social differences between men and women, rather than anatomical,
biological different between the sexes.
(CULTURE) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
Culture - Answer-The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns
shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
Folk Culture - Answer-cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings traditions, and
institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
Popular Culture - Answer-Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and
are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies.
Local Culture - Answer-Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a
collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, traits, and who work to
preserve those traits and customs.
Material Culture - Answer-The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods and other
similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
Nonmaterial Culture - Answer-The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of
people.
Hierarchal Diffusion - Answer-A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads
by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is
usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with
geographic distance a less important influence.
Hearth - Answer-The region from which innovative ideas and cultural traits originate.
Assimilate - Answer-The process through which people lose originally differentiating
traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact
with another society or culture.
Cultural Appropriation - Answer-The process by which cultures adopt customs and
knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
Neolocalism - Answer-The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in
response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
Ethnic Neighborhood - Answer-Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitian
city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can
practice its customs.
, Commodification - Answer-The process though which something is given monetary
value.
Distance Decay - Answer-The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater
the distance the less interaction.
Time-space Compression - Answer-The social and physiological effects of living in a
world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.
Cultural Landscape - Answer-the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the
landscape
Placelessness - Answer-Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of
uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
Diffusion Routes - Answer-The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other
phenomena spread.
custom - Answer-practice routinely followed by a group of people
neolocalism - Answer-The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in
response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
authenticity - Answer-in the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with
which the single sterotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise
dynamic and complex local culture or its customs
reterritorialization - Answer-with respect to popular culture, when people within a place
start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their
local culture and making it their own
folk-housing regions - Answer-A region in which the housing stock predominantly
reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long
inhabited the area.
glocalization - Answer-The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter
regional, national, and global processes
global-local continuum - Answer-the notion that what happens at the global scale has a
direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa.
gender - Answer-Social differences between men and women, rather than anatomical,
biological different between the sexes.
