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To human geographers, culture is what?
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A way of life involving a set of skills, values and meanings, beliefs, language, symbolic practices of everyday life, shared sets of meanings, internal and external forces to particular groups
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According to your textbook, the fastest growing religion in the U.S. is ________.
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Islam
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Human-built features over a land surface such as small dairy farms over the Wisconsin countryside or vineyards over California's Napa Valley are examples of what?
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Cultural landscape
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Coming of age ceremonies, marking the transition from childhood into adulthood are examples of what?
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Rites of passages
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Diasporas have contributed especially to the spread of ________ around the world.
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Religions
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The world's four major world religions began where?
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Old world agricultural urban hearth ares-the fertile crescent
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Despite having a long history and followers around the world, Judaism does not have many followers. In large part, this is because ________?
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It does not seek converts
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Before the Colombian Exchange and contract with the New World, the people of the Americas practiced ________?
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Various form of animism and related rituals like Shamanism
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The Dalai Lama travels the world supporting the people of Tibet and promoting ________?
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Conversion to Buddhism
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Before attaining enlightenment and becoming the Buddha, Prince Gautama was a (n)?
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Hindu
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Currently, around the world, there are roughly ________ iving languages?
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5000
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In a 1995 response to political, economical and social threats to their cultural identity, the people of Quebec narrowly voted to do what?
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Remain part of Canada
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The Hajj, fasting during Ramadan, and giving alms (charitable donations) are ________?
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2 of the 5 primary obligations
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How did the split of Islam into 2 sects, Sunni and Shi'i occur?
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Bloodlines
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Cultural geography explores what?
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Space, place and landscape
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