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Unit 3 Cheat Sheet

One-page visual infographic summarizing every key concept in Cultural Patterns and Processes.

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AP Human Geography Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes cheat sheet infographic

What’s covered in this cheat sheet

This infographic covers the core content of Unit 3: the cultural landscape and how to read it; folk culture vs. popular culture; types of cultural diffusion (contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, relocation); language families, branches, dialects, and lingua francas; universalizing vs. ethnic religions and their global distributions; sacred spaces; cultural change (acculturation, assimilation, syncretism); and globalization’s effects on local cultures including convergence, divergence, and placelessness.