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Cultural Patterns (College Board AP® Human Geography): Exam Questions

9 mins9 questions
21 mark

Which of the following is an example of a centripetal force? 

  • Religious differences in one country.

  • Support for a country’s national soccer team.

  • One country having many different national languages.

  • A mountain range or body of water dividing a country

  • Poor governance and mistrust from the population 

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31 mark

Globalisation can impact Sense of Place by

  • Improving community and collaboration 

  • Improving sustainability through cultural heritage

  • Improving feelings of attachment and national identity

  • Homogenising culture and erasing tradition 

  • Enhancing traditional culture in everyday spaces through particular ways of design

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41 mark

Centrifugal forces are

  • Adoption of one societal culture by another, and losing the original identity. 

  • Places where religions originated from

  • Factors which cause instability and divide groups of people

  • The way culture spreads out

  • Factors that unite people

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51 mark

What is the main reason that English is the world’s lingua franca?

  • Assimilation

  • Centripetal forces

  • Globalization

  • Colonization

  • Centrifugal forces

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61 mark

Where is Islam not as predominant? 

  • Middle East

  • Central Asia

  • North Africa

  • North America

  • South Asia

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71 mark

Holy sites that people make journeys to visit, are known as what?

  • Places of worship

  • Religious hearths

  • Ethnic enclaves

  • Pilgrimage sites

  • Ethnic neighborhoods

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81 mark

Multiculturalism is defined as what?

  • The increasing connectedness around the world

  • The way that different cultural groups leave imprints on places.

  • The adoption of one societal culture by another, and losing the original identity. 

  • The spreading of religious ideas

  • The existence of multiple different ethnic groups in one space.

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