Chp. 4 CULTURE QUESTIONS for Folk and Popular Culture Test

  1. Frequent repetition of an act by a GROUP of people: CUSTOM
  2. Popular culture is practice a homogeneous or heterogeneous groups. HETEROGENEOUS
  3. Folk culture varies from place to place at a given time or from time to time at a given place.
  4. Folk culture is spread by what kind of diffusion? RELOCATION
  5. Popular cultures originate where? MDCs
  6. Popular culture diffuses by what method? HIERARCHICAL
  7. Examining elements of folk and popular culture requires geographers to use what? GIS or census or statistics or FIELD WORK
  8. Wine needs what 4 elements of the physical environment to be successful? climate, soil, vegetation, proximity to lakes or river
  9. Popular folk culture creates what kind of landscape? UNIFORM
  10. Popular customs can cause negative affects to the environment in what two ways? POLLUTION and depletion of SCARCE RESOURCES
  11. What kind of rural area do you find folk culture thriving? ISOLATED
  12. ISOLATION promoted what? CULTURAL DIVERSITY
  13. The effect of the Internet is that it decreases the _____ between places. DISTANCE
  14. What is the area in which the particular culture is dominant but less intense? DOMAIN
  15. What do you call the entire region throughout which a culture prevails or is dominant? CULTURAL REALM
  16. What do you call any item made by humans that represents a material aspect of culture? ARTIFACT
  17. What do you call the zone of outer influence where people with the culture traits in question can even be a minority within another culture region? SPHERE
  18. Folk culture is transmitted from 1 location to another more slowly on a smaller scale primarily through what? RELOCATION DIFFUSION
  19. A folk song tells what? A STORY
  20. Name 3 USA folk hearths? Lower Chesapeake, Middle Atlantic, New England
  21. The two most common building materials in the world are: wood and brick
  22. Culture involves 3 elements: values, material artifacts, and political institutions
  23. Chp. 4 deals with what elements? MATERIAL ARTIFACTS
  24. All people need what 3 material artifacts? CLOTHING< SHELTER FOOD
  25. A restriction on behavior imposed by social customs with a concern for the natural environment is called what? TABOO
  26. Name 3 influences on clothing: income, occupations, environment,
  27. Sometimes the black market in LDCs sell American jeans for $400.00. Jeans are obviously considered as what kind of symbol? STATUS
  28. TV began in what country and in what decade? England - 1950s – Mr. Baird
  29. FACEBOOK began in what country, year, person? USA – 2007 – Mark Zuckerberg
  30. What 3 countries have a monopoly in television? USA, JAPAN, and UK
  31. The USA has far more ______(technology) than any other country in 2014? FACEBOOK
  32. Two major problems with Popular Culture: 1. can hurt folk culture/eliminate 2. hurt the environment
  33. How are women hurt in LDCs by the spread of popular culture? Prostitutes,
  34. In many parts of the world, what is the only reliable and unbiased source of news in 2014? BBC
  35. FOOTBALL's origin was what country? Great Britain.
  36. LaCrosse, the sport, was invented by whom? Iroquois Indians of USA
  37. What is a positive of using SATELLITE Dishes? choose from a wide variety of programs produced in other countries
  38. Popular culture generated 3 kinds of waste: solids, liquids, gasses
  39. The most visible kind of waste is which one? SOLIDS
  40. How does folk culture cause environmental damage? burning grasslands, cutting down forests, over-hunting, soil erosion
  41. Popular culture can significantly modify or control what? THE ENVIRONMENT
  42. What do you call a complete change in the identity of a minority culture group as it becomes part of the majority culture group? ASSIMILATION
  43. What do you call the centralized zone of concentration or the area that possesses all of the culture traits used to define the region? CORE
  44. The origin of popular music is what? hierarchical diffusion by one person
  45. The purpose of popular music is? To sell
  46. A social custom originates at a where? HEARTH.
  47. The number of people supported by a unit of land suitable for agriculture is called ______. Physiological density
  48. The world’s fourth largest population cluster is located in what AP Region? SE Asia
  49. Which of the following is an example of a functional, or nodal region? A. TV market B. a time zone C. a geographic region D. a postal zip code
  50. Which type of diffusion is NOT a type of expansion diffusion? A. relocation b. hierarchical c. stimulus d. contagious