AP Human Geography Unit 3 (copy)

Artifacts, Sociofacts, Mentifacts

Cultural (built) attributes of an area often used to describe a place

Human made surroundings that provide a setting for human activity

The study of how the natural environment can influence a cultural group

The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

The perception based on our emotional connection and association with a certain place

Locations or environments that lack unique characteristics and appear generic or homogeneous due to globalization and commercialization

An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background

Religion that identifies with a particular ethnic or tribal group and does not seek new converts

Refers to a group of people who share a common identity

the adaption of cultural and social characteristics of one society that is controlled by another society with minority of inhabitants, adopting the host cultures experiences

When a minority culture integrates, and absorbs the host culture, and in the process, loses aspects of their native customs

The birth of a new cultural trait, from blending two or more cultural characteristics

An equal exchange or flow of traits between two cultural groups

The largest grouping of related languages

A collection of languages with a family, sharing common ancestry, and separated, from other branches, in the same family thousands of years ago

Languages within a branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past, and have a lot of overlap

As coaches interact, they become more similar, sharing in adopting one another’s ideas, innovations, and other cultural traits

Conflicting beliefs or other barriers to cost cultures to become less similar

Taking global items or concepts, and altering them to accommodate local areas

A variation of a standard language, distinguished by differences and punctuation degree of rapidy in speech, word choice in spelling

A geographic barrier that exists between uses of a dialect

A language that develops when two or more different languages meet in one geographic region

A language that evolves into the primary language of a region

A language used for communication between speakers of different native languages

A language that will almost certainly become extinct in the near future, because no children speak it as their first language

The way the language is written

Names of a place (specific to locations)

Pulls people apart

Brings people together

Attempt to appeal to arrive right at people and are open to membership by all regardless of a persons, location, language, or ethnicity

Closely tied with a particular ethnic group, generally, in a particular region

A large fundamental division with any religion followed by denominations

Division of ranch that unites local congregations in a single, legal and administrative body, followed by a sect

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination

Cultural diffusion that is caused by the immigration of people

Material manifestations (technologies)