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Culture is a genetically-inherited characteristic of humans. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2 | |
Which is the correct order of hierarchy from smallest scale to largest scale for identifying the spatial dimension of culture? |
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| | A) | culture realm, culture region, culture complex, culture trait |
| | B) | culture trait, culture region, culture complex, culture realm |
| | C) | culture complex, culture region, culture realm, culture trait |
| | D) | culture trait, culture complex, culture region, culture realm |
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3 | |
Globalization is claimed to promote this change among cultures __________. |
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| | A) | heterogeneity |
| | B) | homogeneity |
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4 | |
The viewpoint that the dominant control on humans are physical phenomenon such as climate is known as: |
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| | A) | possibilism |
| | B) | environmental determinism |
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5 | |
The viewpoint that the key force in the development culture is humanity is known as: |
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| | A) | possibilism |
| | B) | environmental determinism |
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6 | |
The modification of the earth's surface by humans results in a cultural landscape. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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7 | |
Groups of hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic time period probably lived _______________. |
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| | A) | in close proximity to each other |
| | B) | more isolated than not from each other |
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8 | |
Human carrying capacity in Europe made its first major shift upward during the Mesolithic time period because of _____________. |
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| | A) | increased hunting of wild animals |
| | B) | more gathering of wild fruits and berries |
| | C) | more emphasis upon food cultivation |
| | D) | decreased population due to disease |
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9 | |
Which came first: domestication of plants or the domestication of animals? |
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| | A) | domestication of animals |
| | B) | domestication of plants |
| | C) | animals and plants were domesticated simultaneously |
| | D) | depended upon where the domestication took place |
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10 | |
Seed crops and vegetatively reproduced crops seem to have different major cultural hearths. Which form of domestication of plants is most closely associated with the tropics and humid subtropics? |
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| | A) | seed crops |
| | B) | vegetatively reproduced crops |
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11 | |
The center from which a culture trait diffuses is called a cultural hearth. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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12 | |
Which of these ancient cultures seem to have collapsed because its carrying capacity was exceeded: |
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| | A) | Mayan |
| | B) | Egypt Old Kingdom |
| | C) | Minoan Crete |
| | D) | Mesopotamian |
| | E) | All |
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13 | |
The ideological subsystem of a culture is known as its _________. |
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| | A) | mentifacts |
| | B) | sociofacts |
| | C) | artifacts |
| | D) | all of these |
| | E) | none of these |
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14 | |
A culture’s technological subsystem is referred to as its __________. |
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| | A) | mentifacts |
| | B) | sociofacts |
| | C) | artifacts |
| | D) | all of these |
| | E) | none of these |
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15 | |
The sociological subsystem of a culture is called its ___________. |
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| | A) | mentifacts |
| | B) | sociofacts |
| | C) | artifacts |
| | D) | all of these |
| | E) | none of these |
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16 | |
The two basic categories of diffusion are ____________. |
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| | A) | contagious and hierarchical |
| | B) | cascade and stimulus |
| | C) | relocation and contagious |
| | D) | expansion and hierarchical |
| | E) | expansion and relocation |
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17 | |
Generally, the farther the distance from the source of an innovation, the slower the diffusion of it. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | |
The most crucial medium for space-time compression is the _____________. |
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| | A) | telegraph |
| | B) | telephone |
| | C) | radio |
| | D) | television |
| | E) | Internet |
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19 | |
If one culture imitates the behavior of a second culture and adopts the fundamental idea of a specific culture trait but not the culture trait itself, this reflects which form of diffusion? |
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| | A) | hierarchical |
| | B) | cascade |
| | C) | stimulus |
| | D) | relocation |
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20 | |
Can there be independent invention of a mentifact, artifact, or sociofact in two or more different places? |
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| | A) | Yes |
| | B) | No |
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21 | |
What form of diffusion is represented by the spread of Wal-Mart? |
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| | A) | cascade |
| | B) | relocation |
| | C) | reverse hierarchical |
| | D) | stimulus |
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22 | |
An equal exchange of cultural items such as ideas or behaviors between two groups reflects ______________. |
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| | A) | assimilation |
| | B) | acculturation |
| | C) | transculturation |
| | D) | transformation |
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23 | |
The fusing of old ideas for one group with new ideas from a second group demonstrates that the former group is practicing syncretism. |
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| | A) | Yes |
| | B) | No |
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24 | |
The preagricultural world was marked by cultural uniformity. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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