Stats: AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Match

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Speaking more than one language.	Multilingual	65%
The spread of an idea from one key person or node of authority/power to other people/places with less power and influence.	Hierarchical Diffusion	59%
Someone who embarks on a mission to spread their religion to new people and places.	Missionary	59%
Belief that there is more than one God.	Polytheism	59%
Speaking only one language.	Monolingual	57%
The belief that God does not exist.	Atheism	54%
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling.	Dialect	54%
The place where an idea or innovation originates from.	Hearth	54%
Visible, tangible aspects of culture such as architecture, clothing, books, instruments, etc.	Material Culture	54%
A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.	Taboo	54%
The belief that nothing can be known about whether or not God exists.	Agnosticism	51%
The belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is superior to others; judging other groups through the lens of one’s own culture.	Ethnocentrism	51%
A language of international communication.	Lingua Franca	51%
Belief that there is only one God.	Monotheism	51%
The coexistence of several cultures in one society, with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of practice.	Multiculturalism	51%
A language designated by a country as the one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects.	Official Language	51%
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another, while still maintaining elements of their own culture.	Acculturation	49%
The process of absorbing one cultural group into another until that group can no longer be distinguished from the dominant culture.	Assimilation	49%
A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.	Isolated Language	49%
Belief that inanimate objects or natural events have spirits and a conscious life.	Animism	46%
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people they colonized.	Creole	46%
The process by which an innovation or idea spreads from one place to another over time.	Diffusion	46%
The idea that the interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases.	Distance Decay	46%
A type of diffusion where an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there, while also spreading outwards.	Expansion Diffusion	46%
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.	Language Family	46%
Invisible, intangible culture such as values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms.	Non-Material Culture	46%
The spread of an idea or innovation through the physical movement of people who migrate and take their ideas and innovations with them.	Relocation Diffusion	46%
A group of related languages derived from Vulgar Latin (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian).	Romance Languages	46%
When an innovation spreads but is changed by the people who adapt it.	Stimulus Diffusion	46%
Religions that attempt to appeal to all people, everywhere in the world, not just those of one culture or location.	Universalizing Religion	46%
Diffusion where one person spreads an idea or innovation to multiple people and then those people spread it to multiple people until it uniformly affects all individuals and areas outward from the source.	Contagious Diffusion	43%
Relatively small, ethnically homogenous enclaves situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context.	Ethnic Enclave	43%
The reduction of the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communication and transportation technologies.	Time-Space Compression	43%
Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state and pull the population apart.	Centrifugal Force	41%
The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a place.	Charter Group	41%
All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects.	Culture	41%
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.	Custom	41%
A religion that primarily appeals to one group of people living in a particular place.	Ethnic Religion	41%
A language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.	Extinct Language	41%
Favoring those born in a country over immigrants.	Nativism	41%
The emotions someone attaches to an area based on their experiences.	Sense of Place	41%
When traits from two distinct cultures fuse to form a new cultural trait.	Syncretism	41%
Forces or attitudes that bring people together and enhance support for the state.	Centripetal Force	38%
The structures within the physical landscape caused by human activities.	Cultural Landscape	38%
When people of one group are dispersed to various locations but still maintain their heritage in their new land.	Diaspora	38%
Culture that is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.	Folk Culture	38%
The spread of businesses, products, people and ideas around the world.	Globalization	38%
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.	Sect	38%
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary.	Language Group	35%
The belief that environmental conditions may impact culture in some ways, but people are the primary architects of culture.	Possibilism	35%
The belief that the physical environment actively shapes culture.	Environmental Determinism	32%
A type of religious movement characterized by strict conformity to a religious text.	Fundamentalism	32%
A simplified form of language that adopts the grammar and vocabulary of a lingua franca to allow speakers of two different languages to communicate.	Pidgin Language	32%
The principle that an individual human’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.	Cultural Relativism	30%
Identity of a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland.	Ethnicity	30%
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.	Sequent Occupance	30%
When members of a culture become less like other group members over time.	Cultural Divergence	27%
Word usage boundaries, determined by data collected directly from people.	Isogloss	27%
When two cultures become more similar the more that they interact.	Cultural Convergence	24%
Culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.	Popular Culture	24%

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