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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHYUNIT IV THEME GUIDE

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GEOGRAPHY: ITS NATURE AND PERSPECTIVES: An Introduction to Human Geography,

James M. Rubenstein, 9thed.

Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture 112-143
Origin and Diffusion of Folk and Popular Culture -- 112-120
  1. What is the difference between material culture and leisure culture? Include examples.

  1. What is the difference between habit and custom?

  1. Folk Culture
/ Definition: / Explanation of origin: / Examples of diffusion (Amish):
  1. Popular culture
/ Definition: / Explanation of origin: / Examples of diffusion (soccer):
Clustering of Folk Culture – 120-126
Answer / Examples from text
  1. How has physical environment affected food choices?

  1. How has physical environment affected religious taboos and food choices?

  1. How has physical environment affect housing construction?

  1. Describe the impact that religion has on housing construction. 4-6 sentences.

  1. Describe the diffusion of folk culture throughout the United States. 4-6 sentences.

Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing and Food, 126-131
  1. Explain how your ethnicity or your region in the United States fits into the patterns described in the text.

  1. Explain why Wisconsin is not a manufacturer of wine and what could be done to introduce wine production to Wisconsin.

  1. Explain why fashion has globalized.

  1. Describe the diffusion of jeans. Don’t forget to mention the “hearth”.

  1. Trace the development of US housing architecture from 1945-present day.

Role of Television in Diffusing Popular Culture, 131-135
  1. Two reasons watching TV is a significant popular custom
/ 1. / 2.
  1. How did TV viewing/usage change in the following times:
/ 1930s / 1950s / 1970s / 2000s
  1. How was the diffusion of internet DIFFERENT than TV?

  1. Describe governmental efforts to control access to TV

Globalization of Popular Culture Causes Problems: Threat to Folk Culture, 135 -138
  1. Give two examples of how changes in traditional dress have been received
/ 1. / 2.
  1. How has Popular Culture impacted the traditional role of women?

  1. How do leaders of LDC view the spread of television?

  1. How is new media different in MDCs and LDCs?
/ MDC: / LDC:
Environmental Impact of Popular Culture, 138-141
  1. Give an example of how popular culture has modified the envrionment
/ Example / Implications
  1. How has the global diffusion of fast food created uniform landscape?

  1. Dialect

  1. ingloss

  1. standard language

  1. Analyze the commonality of the English language. Include statistics to back your analysis

  1. Why are the Celts important in the history of the English language?

  1. Why are the Normans important in the history of the English language?

  1. How did new inventions alter the English language? How do they continue to alter the English language?

  1. Noah Webster

  1. Compare pronunciations of British to American English
/ British / American
  1. How did colonial settlement patterns influence American dialects?

The Relationship between English and Other Languages, 143-151
Assignment to be completed in class. Link to the assignment can be found here.
Distribution of Other Language Families, 151-156
  1. What is Mandarin?

  1. Contrast Chinese with the other languages you have studied (2-3 sentences)

  1. Explain the relationship between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

  1. Where is Arabic spoken?

  1. Explain the importance of Swahili.

Preservation of Local Languages, 156-164
  1. Ebonics

  1. Franglais

  1. Spanglish

  1. Denglish

  1. Lingua Franca

  1. Pidgin language

  1. The survival of any language relies on:

  1. The Flemings and Walloons speak languages belonging to different:

Chapter 6: Religion 180-217
Distributions of Religions, 180
  1. Missionary

  1. Pagan

  1. Ghetto

  1. Universalizing Religion

  1. Ethnic Religion

  1. Branch

  1. Denomination

  1. Sect

  1. Origins of Hinduism

  1. Monotheism

  1. Polytheism

  1. Four main branches of Christianity
/ 1.
2.
3.
4. / Issues that separate the branches:
  1. Two main branches of Islam
/ 1.
2. / Issues that separate the branches:
  1. Origins of Buddhism

Holy Places and the Calendar, 196-201
  1. Cosmogny

  1. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur

  1. Passover

  1. Lunar Calander

  1. Solstice

  1. Ramadan

  1. Easter

  1. Christmas

  1. Describe the differences between holy places in ethnic religions v. holy places in universalizing religions?

  1. What makes a Buddhist holy place holy?

  1. List three reasons why Makkah is important in Islam
/ 1.
2.
3.
Sacred Spaces, 202-205
  1. Describe the importance of Mt. Kailas and the Ganges River.

  1. Describe the catacombs importance to early Christianity.

  1. How have Christian cemeteries changed landscapes?

  1. How has overpopulation affected burial customs?

  1. Why did the Mormons establish Salt Lake City?

  1. Explain the division between Catholicism and Protestantism in Quebec (think place names).

Territorial Conflicts, 208-215
  1. Caste

  1. Fundamentalism

  1. Choose one religious conflict and explain the sources of the conflict (2-3 sentences)

Chapter 7, 218-253
Distribution of Ethnicities, 220-230
  1. Triangular trade

  1. Sharecropper

  1. Ethnicity

  1. Race

  1. Identify the four minority groups. Where are each of the four minority groups clustered?
/ 1.
2.
3.
4. / 1.
2.
3.
4.
  1. Briefly summarize what happened to African Americans in each of their three phases of migration.

  1. Explain the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson.

  1. Jim Crow

  1. Explain the impact of Brown v. Board of Education.

  1. White flight

  1. Blockbusting

  1. Apartheid

Ethnicity and Nationalism, 230-237
Using this link, answer the multiple choice questions below.
1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5.
6. / 7. / 8. / 9. / 10.
Conflict Between Ethnicities, 237-243
Assignment to be completed in class. Link to the assignment can be found here.
Ethnic Cleansing, 243-251
  1. How was Yugoslavia fragmented under Josip Tito?

  1. What caused the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia?

  1. What caused the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo?

  1. What caused ethnic cleansing in Central Africa?