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Which state contains the largest Amish population? - ANS_Pennsylvania
Folk songs are more likely than popular songs to tell a story about what? - ANS_Traditions, ancestry
The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example of ________ culture. - ANS_popular
The most popular house style in the United States especially during the 1950s and 1960s (and very common around Florence, SC) was the ___________ house. - ANS_ranch
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of one element of __________ culture. - ANS_folk
Some features of U.S. material culture such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels promote a ____________ landscape. - ANS_Uniform, homogenous
People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of a strong desire to preserve what? - ANS_Traditions and values
Which characteristics are more typical of popular culture than folk culture? - ANS_Heterogenous, urban, large populations
Diffusion of popular customs can adversely impact environmental quality by the depletion of ______________ and _______________ of the air and water. - ANS_resources quality
Folk cultures usually the product of which kind of groups or societies? - ANS_Homogeneous
American and Aussie Rules Football originated from ______________. - ANS_Soccer
A sport which is widely popular in Britain and throughout former British Empire countries such as India and Australia and is similar to baseball is _______________. - ANS_Cricket
A sport which is widely popular in Britain and throughout former British Empire countries such as India and Australia and is similar to American football is _______________. - ANS_Rugby
Vernacular dwellings associated with the New England region include: - ANS_New England large, Saltbox, Cape Cod cottage, Front Gable and Wing
The concepts of hand-hewn plank and corned-notched log construction further diffused throughout the Upland South along with migration of which cultural group(s)? - ANS_Scotch-Irish, Germans
Popular culture is practiced mostly among which type of societies? - ANS_Urbanized and industrialized
Globally, the lack of hog production in North Africa and Southwest Asia corresponds most closely to the spatial distribution of which religion? - ANS_Islam
In folk societies, where do building materials come from? - ANS_Local resources
__________ culture tends toward behavioral uniformity and the reduction of regional differences. - ANS_Popular
The concepts of hand-hewn plank and corned-notched log construction was introduced into North America by people from where? - ANS_Scandinavian (Northern) Europe
The Cajun cottage and Shotgun house were folk houses once common in which part of the United States. - ANS_Southern Louisiana
The Cajun cottage is evidence of diffusion from where? - ANS_France
The Creole cottage and Shotgun house are evidence of diffusion from where? - ANS_Haiti
Flat-roofed dwellings of adobe construction are most common in which part of North America? - ANS_The Southwest (mostly New Mexico)
A yurt is a round, portable dwelling made of felt and used by nomadic peoples in: - ANS_Central Asia and Mongolia
What is a toguna? - ANS_meeting house for tribal elders in Dogon Country of Mali, in West Africa
Earthen pit dwellings are common in which country? - ANS_Tunisia
Medieval folk house types once common throughout Europe were often made of what kind of construction? - ANS_Half timber
What region of the United States was the hearth for box-shape housing that often included a central hall? - ANS_New England
From where did adobe houses of the American Southwest and Mexico originate? - ANS_Spain
From which region in the U.S. did the I-house originate? - ANS_Middle Atlantic
Early forms of popular music such as country originated from _________________ and jazz originated from ___________________. - ANS_Nashville and New Orleans
Famous early jazz singer Dizzy Gillespie was from: - ANS_Cheraw, SC
From where did soccer originate? - ANS_England
What technologies have been the most important for the worldwide diffusion of popular culture? - ANS_television, computers, internet, cell phones
The language family encompassing the languages of China is: - ANS_i
What are the four most frequently spoken branches of the Indo-European language family? - ANS_Indo- Iranian, Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic
The second most widely spoken language family in Europe is: - ANS_Uralic
In which 3 European countries are Uralic speakers located? - ANS_Hungary, Finland, Estonia
Scandinavian languages such as Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish derive from which Indo- European language branch? - ANS_Germanic
To which branch of the Indo-European language family do Dutch and English belong? - ANS_Germanic
- A group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is a language ___________________. - ANS_family
Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese belong to which language branch? - ANS_Romance
Welsh, Gaelic, and Bretons belong to which branch of Indo-European? - ANS_Celtic
The best example of a dialect in the Southeastern United States is: - ANS_Gullah
The principal concentration of French-speakers in North America is in: - ANS_Quebec
Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, and Slovenian belong to which language branch? - ANS_Balto- Slavic
Arabic and Hebrew belong to which language family? - ANS_Afro-Asiatic
Hindi and Persian belong to which language family? - ANS_Indo-European
Which language dominates northern India? - ANS_Hindi
Which language family dominates northern India? - ANS_Indo-Iranian
Which language family dominates southern India? - ANS_Dravidian
The Cyrillic alphabet is used in which languages?
Which branch? - ANS_Indo-Iranian
Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian + some Turkic languages
What language branch dominated Britain before the cultural invasions and the beginnings of the English language? - ANS_Celtic
Ethnic languages in Spain, such as Catalonian and Galician, belong to which language branch or family? - ANS_Romance
Turkish, Mongolian, and Central Asian languages such as Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, and Kazakh belong to which language family? - ANS_Turkic
The language family that is most widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa is: - ANS_Niger-Congo
The language family that is most widespread in North Africa is: - ANS_Afro-Asiatic
A collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language, such as Latin, is a language ___________________. - ANS_branch
Which language family diffused long ago from Southeast Asia all the way across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, near Africa? - ANS_Austronesian
Spoken language originated in which part of the world? - ANS_Western Africa
Persian is associated with which country? - ANS_Iran
Languages such as Vietnamese and Khmer belong to which language family? - ANS_Austro-Asiatic
