Cultural landscapes, language, religion, and cultural diffusion as tested on AP Human Geography.
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- What is cultural diffusion?
- The spread of cultural traits from one place to another through time.
- Define hierarchical diffusion.
- Diffusion that spreads from larger cities to progressively smaller cities and villages.
- What is contagious diffusion?
- Diffusion that spreads from one place to adjacent places, moving outward like an expanding wave.
- Define stimulus diffusion.
- Diffusion in which a cultural trait is modified by the receiving culture to suit local needs.
- What is relocation diffusion?
- Diffusion that occurs when people move from one place to another, taking cultural traits with them.
- What is a cultural hearth?
- A place where cultural traits originate and from which they diffuse outward.
- Define cultural region.
- An area unified by a shared cultural trait, practice, or characteristic.
- What is acculturation?
- The process by which individuals adopt traits of another culture while retaining their original culture.
- Define assimilation.
- The process by which individuals from one culture completely adopt traits of another culture and abandon their original culture.
- What is ethnicity?
- A group of people sharing a common cultural heritage, ancestry, language, or religion.
- Define a language family.
- A group of languages derived from a common ancestral language.
- What is a lingua franca?
- A language adopted for communication between people who do not share a native language.
- Define a pidgin language.
- A simplified language with basic vocabulary and grammar used for trade between speakers of different languages.
- What is a creole language?
- A pidgin language that has become the native language of a community.
- What is an isogloss?
- A geographic boundary line marking the limit of a linguistic feature, such as dialect pronunciation.