1516 ACORN TERMS: Unit 3
Pop culture, folk culture, language, religion, ethnicity and gender
 Be sure to use a Geographic definition. Good online vocabulary link
>http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/snyderd/MWH/AP/definitions/APdefinitions1.htm
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Good site for review and definitions >http://www.studystack.com/APHumanGeography
More good sources are listed at www.geographysource.wikispaces.com
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YOU WILL START TO SEE SOME TERMS AND CONCEPTS SPIRAL THROUGH THE OUTLINE AND VOCAB LISTS. KNOW HOW
TERMS AND CONCEPTS APPLY IN THE UNIT WE ARE STUDYING.
Part 1 Quiz _____________________
Part 2 Quiz ________________________
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PART 1 > CULTURE/LANGUAGE
CULTURE CONCEPTS
Folk vs pop culture
 Acculturation
 Adaptive strategies
 Amalgamation
 Anglo-American landscape
 Anthropology
characteristics
 Archaeology
 Architectural form
 Built Environment/Cultural
 Assimilation
Landscape
 Folk food
 Colonialism
 Folk houses
 Cultural Adaptation
 Folk songs
 Cultural Core/Periphery Pattern
 Folklore
 Cultural Diffusion Types
Expansion Diffusion
 Nonmaterial culture
Hierarchical, Contagious
 Traditional architecture
Stimulus Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion
Language 
 Cultural Ecology
 Artificial language
 Cultural Identity
 Creole
 Culture Region
 Dialect/accent/mutual language/
 Culture Traits
 Indigenous language
 Cultural Values
 Indo-european languages
 Enculturation
 Isogloss
 Globalization
 Language extinction
 Glocalization
 Language family
 Hearth
 Language subfamily
Formal—Core, Periphery
 Language tree
Functional—Node
 Lingua franca
Vernacular (Perceptual)
 Linguistic diversity
Ie Regional Self-Awareness
 Monolingual/multilingual
 Imperialism
 Official language
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Innovation Adoption
 Pidgin
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Maladaptive Diffusion
 Toponym
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Multicuturalism
 Trade language
Italics = Repeat term
from previous units! 
Be able to apply
terms/concepts
appropriately across
units.
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Multi-National State
Polarization Theory
Self Determination
Sense Of Place
Sequent Occupance
Survey Systems
Symbolic Landscape
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Trade
PART 2 > RELIGION/ETHNICITY/
GENDER
Religion
1. Abrahamic religion
2. Buddhism
3. Cargo cult pilgrimage
4. Confucianism
5. enclave
6. ethnic religion
7. Exclave
8. Fundamentalism
9. Geomancy (feng shui)
10. Hajj
11. Hinduism
12. Interfaith boundaries
13. Islam
14. Jainism
15. Judaism
16. Landscapes of the dead
17. monotheism
18. Mormonism
19. Muslim Pigrimage
20. Polytheism
21. Prostleytic religion
22. Reincarnation
23. Religious architectural styles
24. Religious conflict
25. Religious culture hearth
26. Religious toponym
27. Sacred sites
28. Sacred space
29. Secularism
30. Shamanism
31. Sharia law
32. Shia
33. Shintoism
34. Sikhism
35. Sunni
36. Taoism
37. Theocracy
38. universalizing religion
39. Vedic religions
40. Zionism
41. Zoroastrianism
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ETHNICITY TERMS
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Acculturation
Adaptive strategy
Assimilation
Barrio
Centrifugal forces
Chain migration (as related to
ethnicity)
Cultural adaptation
Cultural shatterbelt
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic enclave
Ethnic group
Ethnic homeland
Ethnic landscape
Ethnic neighborhood
Ethnicity
Ethnocentrism (Sneetchism )
Ghetto
Plural society
Segregation
Social distance
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GENDER
1. Dowry death
2. Enfranchisement
3. Gender
4. Gender gap
5. Infanticide
6. Longevity gap
7. Maternal mortality rate
Italics = Repeat term
from previous units!
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Be able to apply
terms/concepts
appropriately across
units.