What should I study for the North America and Culture Quiz? You could re-read pages 96-101, 155-160,
182-187 in the textbook.
You’ll want to look over pages 1, 8, 11-12, 14, 15, 16-18 in the ISN –
especially page 17. And, the stuff below (which is from those pages):
1. What is a cultural
value?____________________________________________________________________________
2. What is a cultural trait?_____________________________________________________________________________
3. What are the six broad categories of cultural traits we
will study this year?
P___________________ S___________________
E___________________ I____________________
R___________________ A___________________
4. A cultural region is an area of the world in which many
people share similar _______________________,
________________________, and ____________________________.
For 5-14, identify
the following elements common to all cultures: (Page 8 in your ISN might be helpful, hint,
hint.)
5. _____________________ instruments used to do work
6. _____________________ organized collection of beliefs
that relate to the meaning of life
7. _____________________ moving people, goods, and materials
from one place to another
8. _____________________ leaders/courts/laws
9. _____________________ producing, distributing, and
consuming goods
10. ____________________ the process of imparting knowledge,
skills and cultural values
11. ____________________ sports, games, and other play
activities
12. ____________________ the exchange of ideas and
information
13. ____________________ a group of persons, usually
related, living in one household
14. ____________________ an outlet of human expression presented
so that anyone can view, hear or experience it
For 15-19, identify the type of government. (Pages
11-12 in your ISN might be helpful, hint, hint.)
15.___________________________ The world’s smallest country,
Vatican City, is ruled by the Pope – who is both the governmental and spiritual
leader of the country.
16. ___________________________ This type of government was
the most common in human history until modern times. One person ruled with complete
authority. Power was usually passed down
through families.
17. ___________________________ For almost 50 years
Anastasio Somoza (and his sons after his death) treated Nicaragua as if it was
their own playground. They took money
from the government treasury, land and buildings from the people, and gave all the powerful jobs to their
friends and family. They were never elected into power, but had complete
control of the military and country.
18. ___________________________ From the mid 1500s to the
late 1700s, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was governed by a group of
wealthy landowners from both regions.
They took power away from the former king.
19. _____________________________ Both modern day countries
in the North American Cultural Region enjoy this type of elected government.
20. List
four reasons that the Canadian/U.S. border is undefended.
21. Which
two countries have had the greatest impact CULTURALLY on the North American
cultural region?
22. What is
the Continental Divide?
23. Which
physical feature of North American has had the greatest impact on the financial success of the continent?
24. Do more
North Americans live in big cities (urban) or in the country (rural)? Why do
you think that is?
25. When it
comes to entertainment like movies, music and television shows, it is often
difficult to tell if they were made in the U.S. or Canada. Why is that?
26. Why did the American founding fathers created THREE branches of
government?
27. In both
the U.S. and Canada, there are still cultural conflicts based on decisions made
hundreds of years ago. In American, the decision not to address slavery in order
to pass the U.S. Constitution into law lead to what in the mid-1800s and still
causes social strife in our culture today? __________________ In Canada, the decision
to allow Quebec to keep French cultural, language and religious traditions in
British held Canada has led to modern social strife between provinces and a Quebec
voting on whether or not to become its own country in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on these examples, we see how closely
what areas of PERSIA can be related?
28. Be able to identify physical
features as political borders in North America.
Give some examples.
