AP Human Geography Exam Review
Unit III
Name: _______________________
This exam review outlines the major concepts and questions that will be a part of the “Cultural Patterns and Processes.” Topics
on this section focus on traits and identity of culture, popular versus folk, religion, language, ethnicity and sense of place. This
comprises 13-17% of the AP Exam.
Part A: Define vocabulary terms
Culture
Ecumene
Environmental Determinism
Lingua Franca
Dialect
Diaspora
Acculturation
Universalizing Religion
Evangelical Religion
Cultural Imperialism
1. Compare and contrast a cultural trait and a custom.
2. Compare and contrast syncretic and dynamic traditions.
3. Compare and contrast folk culture and pop culture.
4. Compare and contrast pidgin language and Creole language.
5. Compare and contrast monotheism and polytheism.
6. Compare and contrast Shamanism and Animism.
7. Compare and contrast Ethnicity and Race.
8. What is the single largest language family, spoken by 50% of the world’s people?
9. What is the second largest language family, spoken by 20% of the world’s people?
10. What are the five Romance Languages?
11. Which religion is the most widespread with 2 billion followers? What are their major beliefs?
12. What is the second largest religion with 1 billion followers? What are their major beliefs?
13. What is the third largest religion with 300 million adherents? What are their major beliefs?
14. Which two major religions are ethnic religions?
15. Which of the major religions is not evangelical? Why is this?
16. What are some reasons behind language extinction? Name a language facing extinction.
17. What are some of the environmental impacts of various folk cultures? Give a geographic example.
18. What are some of the environmental impacts of popular (pop) culture? Give a geographic example.
19. How is culture diffused across space?
20. How does culture and ethnicity lend itself to a “sense of place?”
21-25. Label the Distribution of the world’s major religions. Place a star on their cultural hearths.