Ap Human Geo Vocab-- Unit 3

The way people speak and how words are pronounced are different in different parts of the world.

The adoption of cultural traits, such as languages.

Speakers of proto-indo european lived in anatolia during the neolithic era.

Belief that objects or natural events have discrete spirit and life.

An artifact that is made by humans that represents culture.

People lose originating differentiating traits when they go to another culture/ place.

A religion that doesn’t have central authority but shares ideas and cooperates.

Invisible line that marks the states territories

Large fundamental division within a religion.

The tangible items that are built by humans.

Model that shows culture traits that characterize the region is greatest.

Religious beliefs concerning the universe

Languages formed by the combination of 2 or more languages.

Culture becomes similar in ways such as structure, technology and values.

The study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.

Attributes of an area to describe a place.

People of different cultures will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature, potentiality and use.

Group of traits that define a culture.

Place of origin with widespread cultural trend

Regin where traits maintain homogeneity.

Functional region within common cultural characteristics

Specific customs that are a part of everyday culture.

Frequent repetition of an act of a group

Division of a branch unifies a number of congregations in a single legal body.

Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary spelling and pronunciation.

Unit of organization in the roman catholic church.

Philosophy of geography that stated human behaviors are a result of the surrounding environment.

Relate closely to the culture ethnic heritage and physical geography of a particular place.

Once used by people in daily activities but no longer used.

Particular customs of a small group of people that make the group unique.

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.

Area of a city where people in ethnic minority are confined by government and economic and social obstacles that make it hard to ethnically exist outside of the place.

Increasing connection of economic, cultural and political characteristics around the world.

Process which human culture spreads internationally while reinforcing certain local culture.

Repetitive act performed by one person.

Religion which central authority exercises high degree of control

System of writing used in china or other east asian countries where each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a sound.

Language family that has all European languages in it.

Act of human burial

Interfaith- boundaries between worlds major faiths.

Intrafaith- boundaries within major religions.

Boundary line between two distinct linguistic regions.

Language that is unrelated to any other language but doesn’t belong to any language family.

Initial spread of proto-indo european during 5th and 4th millennia BC.

Way of human communication with others like them.

Lots of languages related to a common ancestor derived from the same family.

Collection of languages through common ancestors long before recorded history.

Collection of languages within a branch, recent languages

Language that has simple words from multiple languages so that people can understand one another.

System of written communication.

Anything that can be physically seen on a landscape.

Shared ideas, values and belief in culture.

Mono- speaks one language, bi speakers two languages, multi speakers several languages. Can understand people in said language and speak fluently.

Belief that there is only one god.

Language adopted by countries' governments conducting business and publishing of official government documents.

philosophical position that promotes that universal or abstract concepts do not exist in the same way as physical, tangible material.

Hypothesized family of languages to several language families of eurasia and northern africa.

Language adopted by countries' governments conducting business and publishing of official government documents.

Method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symboles.

Emerges when 2 or more languages join together in a small geographic area.

Voluntary travel to a sacred site to pay respects or to participate in a ritual at the site.

Using several languages

Belief in many gods

Culture not tied to specific location but rather  a general location

Theory that the physical environment sets limits on human actions but can adjust to the physical environment.

A place that is considered holy to some people.

Small group that broke away from an established denomination.

idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on earth

Notion that societies leave their cultural imprints on an area.

Form of tribal religion that involved the community of a religious leader,healer, worker of magic and so on.

Short lived language used in place of standard words.

Organizations of a culture that has influence on social behavior.

Language used for government business education and large group communication.

Blending of cultures and ideas from different places along the globe.

How words are arranged in sentences.

Restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

Word for name but specific to locations.

Language used between native speakers to they can trade with each other.

Ethnic or regional religions customs under an organized religion but unique to the tribe.

Spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that is similar to each other.

Belief that systems are attractive to the population of the world.

Area that people believe exist as part of cultural identity.

Emerge from someone’s informal sense of place; mind map

Cultural landscape defined

Movement to unite jewish people of the group that lives in one area but want to be in the promised land