Lesson 2

Question 1

What is a social system?

Answer 1

A social system develops to help the members of a culture work together to meet basic needs.

Question 2

What role does the family play in culture?

Answer 2

The family forms an important group in all cultures.

Question 3

What are social classes?

Answer 3

Groups of people ranked according to ancestry, wealth, education, or other criteria.

Question 4

Define an ethnic group.

Answer 4

A group of people who share a common language, history, or place of origin.

Question 5

What features do governments share?

Answer 5

Maintaining order, providing protection, and supplying services to the people.

Question 6

How can governments be categorized?

Answer 6

By levels of power (national, regional, local) and by type of authority (single ruler, small group, body of citizens).

Question 7

What influences do economic activities have on culture?

Answer 7

They shape how people make a living, whether in farming, industry, or providing services.

Question 8

What do geographers study regarding natural resources?

Answer 8

How a culture utilizes its natural resources to meet needs like food and shelter.

Question 9

What is a culture region?

Answer 9

Areas that have certain traits in common, such as economic systems, forms of government, or social groups.

Question 10

What is ‘culture’?

Answer 10

A way of life of a group of people who share similar culture traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.

Question 11

What is a language family?

Answer 11

A group of related languages that have all developed from one earlier language.

Question 12

What is an ethnic group characterized by?

Answer 12

Common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin.

Question 13

How many language families are most languages spoken throughout the world part of?

Answer 13

One of 12 language families.

Question 14

Where are Dravidian languages spoken?

Answer 14

In regions of India and surrounding areas.

Question 15

Do people within the same language family necessarily speak the same language? True or False?

Answer 15

False.

Question 16

What does the Robinson projection represent?

Answer 16

A map projection that represents the Earth in a visually appealing way.

Question 17

Fill in the blank: The _______ is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Answer 17

Equator

Question 18

What are the characteristics of culture regions?

Answer 18

They may share similar economic systems, forms of government, or social groups.

Question 19

What are some examples of language families?

Answer 19

• Afro-Asiatic
• Altaic
• Austro-Asiatic
• Austronesian
• Dravidian
• Indo-European
• Japanese-Korean
• Kam-Thai
• Niger-Congo
• Nilo-Saharan
• Sino-Tibetan
• Uralic
• Other