AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 3.1 Flashcards

Shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors that a society learns and transmits among members and across generations

A customary or repeated way of doing something, such as preparing food, worshipping, farming, or celebrating

The tools, techniques, knowledge, and methods people use to accomplish tasks and modify their environments

A learned value, belief, preference, or disposition through which people interpret the world

An observable action shaped in part by learned cultural practices and attitudes

The tangible objects and built forms produced or used by a society, such as buildings, clothing, and tools

The intangible elements of culture, including language, beliefs, values, customs, and social expectations

A single identifiable element of culture, such as a language, food prohibition, roof style, or farming technique

Cultural traits involving favored or avoided foods, preparation methods, and occasions for eating particular foods

Cultural traits expressed through building materials, construction methods, floor plans, decorative features, and styles

The way people arrange, modify, and assign functions to space

The view that the environment presents opportunities and limitations while societies choose among them through culture and technology

The claim that physical environmental conditions directly and inevitably determine cultural characteristics

Judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture, often assuming one’s own practices are normal or superior

Understanding a cultural practice through the meanings, standards, and circumstances of its own culture rather than automatically judging it by outside standards