FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

PDF Download

FREE AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

CHAPTER 6 VOCABULARY EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -20 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Extinct language

Answer:

Language without any native speakers.

Question 2: Language convergence

Answer:

Process where two languages collapse into one language. Happens when people speaking two languages have frequent and consistent spatial interaction with each other; the opposite of language divergence.

Question 3: Standard language

Answer:

The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual elite seek to promote as the norm for use in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life.

Question 4: Isogloss

Answer:

A geographic boundary where linguistic features occur.

Question 5: Creole language

Answer:

A language that began as a pidgin language and was later adopted as the mother tongue of a people.

Question 6: Dialect

Answer:

Variants of a standard language along regional or ethic lines.

Question 7: Pidgin language

Answer:

Combination of two or more languages in a simplified structure and vocabulary.

Question 8: Vernacular

Answer:

A language used in everyday interaction among a group of people in a local area.

Question 9: Language family

Answer:

Group of languages with a shared but distant origin.

Question 10: Mutual intelligibility

Answer:

Ability of two people to understand each other when speaking.

Question 11: Dialect chain

Answer:

A group of contiguous dialects where the dialects nearest to each other geographically are the most similar and the dialects farther apart are least similar.

Question 12: Language divergence

Answer:

Process where discrete, new languages are eventually formed from one language. Happens when people speaking two dialects of a language are relatively isolated from each other and have little spatial interaction; the opposite of language convergence.

Question 13: Cognate

Answer:

A word in one language that shares its origin with a word in another language. They have similar meanings and spellings and show shared origins and connections among languages.

Question 14: Conquest Theory

Answer:

Idea that early speakers of Proto-Indo-European left the hearth area and moved westward on horseback, overpowering earlier inhabitants and beginning the diffusion and differentiation of Indo-European tongues.

Question 15: Backward reconstruction

Answer:

Tracking sound shifts and hardening consonants backward to uncover an original language.

Question 16: Toponym

Answer:

Place name.

Question 17: Language

Answer:

A set of sounds and symbols that are used for communication.

Question 18: Language subfamilies

Answer:

Divisions within a language family where commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent.

Question 19: Agriculture Theory

Answer:

The theory that the Proto-Indo-European language spread with the diffusion of agriculture.

Question 20: Lingua franca

Answer:

Language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages.