Study essential AP Human Geography vocabulary with these practice questions. This guide covers key terms like acculturation, diffusion, migration, and urbanization.
Q: Acculturation
Answer: when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture
Q: Assimilation
Answer: the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
Q: Cultural Adaptation
Answer: new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people
Q: Cultural Ecology
Answer: the place and location of a specific culture based on ecology
Q: Cultural Landscape
Answer: the landscape in which people have affected by cultural means
Q: Culture Realm
Answer: a group of culture traits
Q: Culture Region
Answer: group of culture realms, in formal, functional, and vernacular
Q: Diffusion Types
Answer: expansion and relocation, expansion is the expanding, and relocating is moving
Q: Maladaptive Diffusion
Answer: Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another
Q: Sequence Occupancy
Answer: Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey
Q: Adaptive Strategies
Answer: strategies that make people adapt to the prevailing culture
Q: Folk Culture
Answer: a prevailing culture in a homogeneous population
Q: Popular Culture
Answer: a culture that is always changing by a heterogeneous population
Q: Creole
Answer: a formalized pidgin language
Q: Dialect
Answer: variant of a language
Q: Indo-European Languages
Answer: Romance and Germanic languages spoken by about 50% of the world’s population
Q: Isogloss
Answer: geographical boundary lines where linguistic features meet
Q: Language Family
Answer: and group of languages with the same proposed hearth
Q: Language Group
Answer: a grouping of languages by geographers based on similarities, etc.
Q: Language Subfamily
Answer: a section of a language family
Q: Lingua Franca
Answer: an international language used for trade and commerce
Q: Monolingual/Multilingual
Answer: mono- one language, multi- more than one language
Q: Official Language
Answer: the main language spoken by a country
Q: Pidgin
Answer: a language that is just a mix of several languages
Q: Toponym
Answer: a name for a place
Q: Animism
Answer: Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, the doctrine saying that the world is infused through spirits, and supernatural powers
Q: Buddhism
Answer: a religion stating that there is no god, and that the path to happiness is self-realization
Q: Christianity
Answer: monotheistic religion that is most adopted in the world that believes in Christ
Q: Confucianism
Answer: the religion that follows a set of philosophies
Q: Ethnic Religion
Answer: religion that is adopted mainly by people of one race
Q: Exclave/Enclave
Answer: An enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country; an exclave is one, which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.
Q: Fundamentalism
Answer: literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.
Q: Geomancy
Answer: is a method of prediction that interprets markings on the ground, or how handfuls of dirt land when someone tosses them. The Arabic tradition consists of sketching sixteen random lines of dots in sand.
Q: Hajj
Answer: the pilgrimage to Mecca for Islam followers, it’s the fifth of the five pillars
Q: Sunni/Shiite
Answer: the two branches of the Muslim religion, divided by a conflict over the prophet
Q: Taoism
Answer: religion based on Chinese philosophy
Q: Universalizing
Answer: the spreading of a religion worldwide
Q: Zoroastrianism
Answer: is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster
Q: Hinduism
Answer: Created in India, approximately one billion followers. Unlike other religions, heaven isn’t always the ultimate goal in life. Third largest in world behind Christianity and Islam. Talk about Karma (what goes around comes around.)
Q: Interfaith Boundaries
Answer: boundary that separates two religious views
Q: Islam
Answer: means the submission to the will of god, also monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a key religious figure
Q: Jainism
Answer: religion and philosophy originating in ancient India. Stresses spiritual independence and equality throughout all life
Q: Judaism
Answer: It is the religion of ancient Hebrews, said to be one of the first monotheistic faiths
Q: Monotheistic/Polytheistic
Answer: mono- one god, poly-many gods
Q: Mormonism
Answer: a branch of Amish Christianity that allows men to have several wives
Q: Muslim pilgrimage
Answer: If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, they usually make the trip around Ramadan, this pilgrimage is also referred to as Hajj
Q: Proselytic Religion
Answer: Referred to as a Universalizing Religion, which is an attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location
Q: Reincarnation
Answer: birth after death
Q: Secularism
Answer: this is the belief that humans should be based on facts and not religious beliefs
Q: Shamanism
Answer: this is the range of traditional beliefs and practices that claim the ability to cure, heal, and cause pain to people
Q: Sharia Law
Answer: it is the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles
Q: Shintoism
Answer: said to be the way of god. It is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami (a god). Not very significant anymore and lost importance to today
Q: Sikhism
Answer: a combination of Hinduism and Islam
Q: Acculturation
Answer: Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
Q: Assimilation
Answer: the succession of one race into another
Q: Dowry Death
Answer: death of a wife over the families offer off to marriage
Q: Ethnic Cleansing
Answer: an attempt to remove all the people of one race or ethnicity
Q: Ethnocentrism
Answer: the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one’s own culture
Q: Enfranchisement
Answer: suffrage
Q: Infanticide
Answer: is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant