Stats: AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Match

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Speaking more than one language.	Multilingual	60%
Someone who embarks on a mission to spread their religion to new people and places.	Missionary	57%
Belief that there is more than one God.	Polytheism	57%
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	53%
The belief that God does not exist.	Atheism	50%
A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling.	Dialect	50%
The place where an idea or innovation originates from.	Hearth	50%
Visible, tangible aspects of culture such as architecture, clothing, books, instruments, etc.	Material Culture	50%
Speaking only one language.	Monolingual	50%
A language designated by a country as the one used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects.	Official Language	50%
The belief that nothing can be known about whether or not God exists.	Agnosticism	47%
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	47%
The coexistence of several cultures in one society, with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of practice.	Multiculturalism	47%
When an innovation spreads but is changed by the people who adapt it.	Stimulus Diffusion	47%
A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.	Taboo	47%
A type of diffusion where an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there, while also spreading outwards.	Expansion Diffusion	43%
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.	Language Family	43%
A language of international communication.	Lingua Franca	43%
Belief that there is only one God.	Monotheism	43%
Invisible, intangible culture such as values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms.	Non-Material Culture	43%
A group of related languages derived from Vulgar Latin (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian).	Romance Languages	43%
Belief that inanimate objects or natural events have spirits and a conscious life.	Animism	40%
The process of absorbing one cultural group into another until that group can no longer be distinguished from the dominant culture.	Assimilation	40%
A language that results from the mixing of the colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people they colonized.	Creole	40%
The process by which an innovation or idea spreads from one place to another over time.	Diffusion	40%
The idea that the interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases.	Distance Decay	40%
A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.	Isolated Language	40%
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	40%
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	37%
The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a place.	Charter Group	37%
When people of one group are dispersed to various locations but still maintain their heritage in their new land.	Diaspora	37%
A religion that primarily appeals to one group of people living in a particular place.	Ethnic Religion	37%
A language that is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world.	Extinct Language	37%
Culture that is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.	Folk Culture	37%
The spread of businesses, products, people and ideas around the world.	Globalization	37%
Favoring those born in a country over immigrants.	Nativism	37%
Religions that attempt to appeal to all people, everywhere in the world, not just those of one culture or location.	Universalizing Religion	37%
Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state and pull the population apart.	Centrifugal Force	33%
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	33%
All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects.	Culture	33%
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.	Custom	33%
Relatively small, ethnically homogenous enclaves situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context.	Ethnic Enclave	33%
A type of religious movement characterized by strict conformity to a religious text.	Fundamentalism	33%
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	33%
When traits from two distinct cultures fuse to form a new cultural trait.	Syncretism	33%
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	33%
Forces or attitudes that bring people together and enhance support for the state.	Centripetal Force	30%
The structures within the physical landscape caused by human activities.	Cultural Landscape	30%
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.	Sect	30%
The emotions someone attaches to an area based on their experiences.	Sense of Place	30%
Identity of a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland.	Ethnicity	27%
The belief that environmental conditions may impact culture in some ways, but people are the primary architects of culture.	Possibilism	27%
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	23%
Word usage boundaries, determined by data collected directly from people.	Isogloss	23%
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	23%
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.	Sequent Occupance	23%
The belief that the physical environment actively shapes culture.	Environmental Determinism	20%
Culture found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.	Popular Culture	20%
When two cultures become more similar the more that they interact.	Cultural Convergence	17%
When members of a culture become less like other group members over time.	Cultural Divergence	17%

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