Ch 4 Culture Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| cultural landscape | Modifications to the enviorment by humans, including the built enviorment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if thier culture |
| Culture | The shared understandings that guide behavior and values and condition a group's perception of the world. Is learned from one generation to the net and evolves over time. |
| Culture region | a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. |
| Culture trait | A defining characteristic of the culture that is shared by most, if not all, members |
| artifact | object made by human beings |
| folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
| popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| custom | a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic |
| habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
| taboo | a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom |
| uniform landscape | the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another |
| cultural landscape | a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture |
| culture realm | a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail |
| culture hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture |
| accultration | modifying cultural traits to conform to dominant culture |
| assimilation | adopting dominant culture |
| multicultralism | many cultures |
| globalization | spread world wide |
| terroir | contribution of envionment to taste of food |
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Mrs. Sweeney
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