My Autobiography

Study Guide - Test # 3

 Study Hints: Do not wait to look up these terms the night before the test. Read, Remember, Regurgitate, Know, Understand and Relate to Cultural Geography. Think of specific examples that relate to the subject. Remember RTFQ!

 The test will consist of multiple choice type questions, at least three short answer essay type questions, vernacular housing styles and, possibly, a map.

Chapter 7

1. Differentiate between Folk Culture and Pop Culture. Pop culture is mainstream and Folk culture is the traditional non faddish aspect of culture.

2. Is it the product of homogeneous, self-sufficient, isolated groups or does it belong to everyone? It is isolated

3. Who is likely to preserve Folk Culture? - groups or individuals? individuals

4. Pop Culture expects certain behavior that is often uniform and reduces isolated

regional differences - often exactly the opposite of Folk Culture, which is individual in

nature.

5. What causes Pop Culture? - Three causes - Mass communication YES or NO.

6. Are any Folk Societies left in America? If so, list this group of people - They are

sometimes referred to as the Pennsylvania Dutch.

7. The landscape created by human action is the .

8. What is a vernacular house style?

9. In Folk societies building materials are dictated by local .

10. Know the Northern Hearths and the two regions of development.

11. What house types were built in the Northern Hearths?

12. Know the types of houses built in the Middle Atlantic Hearth.

13. What are the houses of the Middle Atlantic Hearth made of?

14. Was the log cabin an original house style of the first Anglo-Americans?

15. Know the Southern house styles. Who built them and for what reasons?

16. Know the Mississippi Delta house styles? Why were they built this way?

17. Know the difference between material and non-material Folk Culture and examples.

18. Describe Geophagy and where and why is this practice often seen.

19. How is Geophagy expressed as a modern Folk Medicine?

20. Many folk medicines, foods and ideas came from what indigenous American group?

21. Black song tradition came from work songs of slaves that diffused to become .

22. Appalachian song tradition diffused to become .

23. Southern Backwoods song tradition diffused to become .

24. Describe the Western Song tradition.

25. What is Oral Tradition?

26. What is folklore?

Chapter 8

1. Economic Geography relates to the spatial relationships about how people..............

2. Know the FIVE CATEGORIES of Human Activities.

3. Know the THREE types of economic systems. Think of examples of each.

(1)Sub (2)Comme (3) Plan .

4. How many people are farmers in the world (by percentages)-in the U.S. & Canada?

5. Why do farmers grow more in the Midwest region of the U.S. than almost any

other region of the world? Hint - two big reasons but there are many overall.

6. What