COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

CHAPTER 4
The Geography of Culture, Language and Religion
Activity 1
Name: ________________________________ Date:___________
Course:______________________ Score:___________
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DIRECTIONS: Read the given instructions before proceeding.

Part I. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the box provided
below.

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

1. Known as the way of life of people.

a. Culture c. Folk Culture
b. Pop Culture d. Religion
2. Which of the following is an example of cultural traits?
a. Race c. Food
b. Music d. All of the choices
3. A culture practice by a small and homogenous group.
a.Culture c. Folk Culture
b. Pop Culture d. Religion
4. It is a practice where a certain tribe eat clay to treat diarrhea and to fight toxicity of plants.
a. Geography c. Geophagy
b. Geophagia d. none of the choices
5. This type of culture is known to heterogeneous group of people and is usually practice by large
group of people.
a. Culture c. Folk Culture
b. Pop Culture d. Religion
6. Which of the following is an example of pop culture?
a. Geophagy c. Baki
b. Jollibee d. Tattoo
7. Coca-Cola is an example of which of the following
a. Folk Culture c. Pop Culture
b. Culture d. Practice
8. It is defined as a system of communication through speech, collection of sounds that a group of
people understands…
a. Language c. Speech
b. Communication d. Verbal
9. It is one of the fundamental way in which culture is taught, shared and expressed among group of
people.
a. Speech c. Action
b. Language d. Communication
10. This theory explained that the Proto-Indo-European language was a result of diffusion of agrarian
practices.
a. Kurgan Hearth c. Anatolian Hearth
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 b. Dialects d. none of the choices
Part II. True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is TRUE otherwise write FALSE. Write your
answer on the box provided below.

1. 9.
2. 10.
3. 11.
4. 12.
5. 13.
6. 14.
7. 15.
8.

1. Culture is a learned and shared set of behavior.

2. People are born with a certain culture.
3. Folk Culture is resistant to change.
4. Geophagy is practice by the people of Central Africa.
5. The practice of eating dirt was diffuse to the US from Africa through agriculture.
6. Reggae is a musical form from Jamaica.
7. The spread of pop culture is usually attributed to the growth of globalization.
8. Language primarily diffuses from one point of origin through relocation diffusion in the form of
migration
9. English is recognized worldwide as the international language for commerce and sciences.
10. English is not the native language of United States
11. Mandarin is the official language of China
12. Zulu is the usual language of South Africa.
13. Haitian Creole is the language of Haiti which originates from French language.
14. China is the most populated country in the world.
15. English is the predominant language is the US.

Part III. Identification. Identify what is being described in each item. Write your answer on the box
provided below.

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

1. A classification of religion which aims to spread their belief around the world.
2. This classification of religion develop in one area and focuses on one group of people.
3. Sikhism originated from what country?
4. Founder of Sikhism.
5. It is one of the widespread practiced religion in the world which belief centers about Christ.
6. This term is use to call people whose aim is to spread the word of God from one place to another.
7. What hemisphere of the Earth where Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism were dominant religions?
8. What religion originated from Middle East?
9. Buddhism originated from what country?
10. Hinduism is the state religion of what country?

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Part IV. Choose three of the six main religions in the world. Research the significant features of
following those faiths, and use the table below to record your research and the similarities and
differences between the chosen religions. Write a short explanation about the different features.
Choose between Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Hinduism.

Similarities between ______________________________________________________________

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(Use the table on the next page)

Part V. Essay. (30pts). Answer the following questions. I encourage you to draw on outside sources
or personal knowledge. See rubrics for checking below.
Rubrics for Checking Essay
Criteria Points Your point
Content 10
You have clearly pointed out your point/stand. You supported your
idea/claims/arguments with detailed information.
Organization 10
Your ideas are organized. You have answered all questions.
Grammar and Spelling 10
Total 30

1. Describe the differences between folk and popular culture. In what ways does the spread of
popular culture cause problems? Support your answer.
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2. Choose one universalizing religion and one ethnic religion and discuss the origins and diffusion of
each.
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For number 3, refer to the rubric below.

Rubrics for Checking Essay
Criteria Points Your point
Content 20
You have clearly pointed out your point/stand. You supported your
idea/claims/arguments with detailed information.
Organization 15
Your ideas are organized. You have answered all questions.
Grammar and Spelling 15
Total 50

3. Research about the conflicts of religion around the world. Describe briefly two examples of
religious conflict in your research. Are these really conflicts between religious belief or are other
forces at play?
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 COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
CHAPTER 5
Ethnic and Political Geography
Activity 2

Name: ________________________________ Date:___________

Course:______________________ Score:___________
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DIRECTIONS: Read the given instructions before proceeding.

Part I. Identification. Identify what is being asked in the following. Writ your answer on the box
below.

1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
4. 14.
5. 15.
6. 16.
7. 17.
8. 18.
9. 19.
10. 20.

1. Defined by Rubenstein as the identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions of a
particular homeland hearth.
2. It refers to the sharing of a common genetic ancestor and hence has a biological basis.
3. It acts as an agent of the political body for interactions with other political entities.
4. It is an identity based on genetics.
5. It is based on culture.
6. We choose the classify the race of people based on ____________.
7. These were self-governed cities, often protected by walls, moats, and/or other surrounding areas.
8. It refers to politically controlled area or unit and is also called country.
9. It is a group of people who share similar belief, values, customs, and coexist within similar political
space.
10. Refers to a state’s independence from other political powers.
11. The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among ethnicities.
12. the effort by one country to establish settlements and impose its political, economic and cultural
principles on such territory.
13. What event marked the end of the Cold War?
14. A region that is under the political rule of a sovereign state.
15. The three basic reasons for European colonialism.
16. The control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.
17. It act as a means of security and are often a source of conflict.
18. it is an invisible line separating two states.
19. These type of boundaries is usually associated with mountains, rivers, or oceans.
20. It separate people of different ethnic groups or religions.

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Part II. Matching Type. Match Column A to Column B by writing the letter on the space provided
before the number.

A B
_____1. Apartheid a. Typically small and roundish in shape
_____2. Apartheid System b. It is an example of fragmented shape
_____3. Compact Shape c. a state which have several noncontiguous
pieces of territory
_____4.Prorupted Shape d. this is an example of elongated country
_____5. Chile e. refers to a collection of people who are from
the same region, who hold similar beliefs and
characteristics.
_____6. US f. a practice of South Africa which classifies
races
_____7. Political geography g. Known as the first world country during the
end of the Cold War
_____8. Philippines h. Deals with the organization of the world into
sovereign state…
_____9. Nation i. apartness
_____10. Fragmented Shape j. also known as protruded shape has an
extension that protrudes from the main territory.

Part III. Essay. Answer the following questions. Refer to the Criteria for checking provided below.

Criteria for Checking Essay

Criteria Points Your point
Content 10
You have clearly pointed out your point/stand. You supported your
idea/claims/arguments with detailed information.
Organization 10
Your ideas are organized. You have answered all questions.
Grammar and Spelling 10
Total 30

1. Is the United States of America considered as a nation or a state? Justify your answer.
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2. What is sovereignty and why is it important to national government? Support your answer.
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3. Describe the process of colonization and imperialism and why they were necessary or desirable.
Highlight what you see as positives and negatives for both the colonists and the colonized.
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4. Explain the concept of boundaries and why boundaries are important. Use an example you are
familiar with in your answer.
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5. Explain the concept of Apartheid System of South Africa and discuss the use of boundaries under
the system.
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6. Some people believe that cooperation between world powers is necessary to maintain global order.
Discuss what you believe to be the benefits and the potential pitfalls of international cooperation.
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 COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
CHAPTER 7
The Geography of Development
Activity 3

Name: ________________________________ Date:___________

Course:______________________ Score:___________
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DIRECTIONS: Read the given instructions before proceeding.

Part I. Identification. Identify what is being asked in the following items. Write your answer on the
box provided below.
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

1. It include workers who turn primary-sector commodities into finished products.

2. It is represented by workers involved on the extraction of raw materials from the earth.
3. It is often referred as the service sector.
4. When GDP is divided by the total population in a country you will get ___________.
5. It is the monetary value of the total goods and services produced in a country annually.
6. It is commonly used as an indicator of development.
7. A category of country which lacks the basic conditions people in MDCs tend to take for granted.
8. It is a category of country which is often describe to have relatively high standards of living.
9. It is the process of improving the material conditions of people through diffusion of knowledge and
technology.
10. It is often described as the poorer category of countries in the world.

Part II. Identify if the following workers falls under primary, secondary or tertiary sectors. Write
your answer on the box provided below.
1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
4. 14.
5. 15.
6. 16.
7. 17.
8. 18.
9. 19.
10. 20.

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 1. Farmers 11. Fishermen
2. Judge 12.Factory workers
3. Miners 13.Loggers
4. Barbers 14. Drivers
5. Tailors 15. Seamstress
6. Sales lady/boy 16. Doctors
7. Barista 17. Teachers
8. Makeup artist 18. Foresters
9. Bakers 19. Butchers
10. Jewelers 20. Hunters

Part III. Identify which country belongs to MDC or LDC.

1. 9.
2. 10.
3. 11.
4. 12.
5. 13.
6. 14.
7. 15.
8.

1. Japan 11. Congo

2. South Korea 12. Italy
3. Philippines 13. Nigeria
4. US 14. Taiwan
5. Jamaica 15. Canada
6. China
7. Australia
8. UK
9. New Zealand
10. Myanmar

Part IV. Enumeration. Enumerate the indicators of development and its sub-indicators.
Indicator 1:______________________________
a. _________________________
b. _________________________
c. _________________________

Indicator 2: ______________________________
a. __________________________
b. __________________________

Indicator 3: ______________________________
a. ___________________________
b. ___________________________
c. ___________________________
d. ___________________________

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Part V. Essay. Answer the following questions. Refer to the criteria on page 6.

1. Discuss the problems of financing development through loans. Do you think this approach is part of
the solution or part of the problem for development?

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2. From the discussion on your module, describe the various methods that are used to promote
development. In your opinion, which methods are the most effective and why?
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 COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
CHAPTER 8
Agricultural Geography
Activity 4

Name: ________________________________ Date:___________

Course:______________________ Score:___________
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DIRECTIONS: Read the given instructions before proceeding.

Part I. Fill in the Blanks. Fill the blanks with needed information to complete the sentences. Write
your answer on the box below.

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

a. Plants that have been cultivated by humans are called 1. _______________, while the practice of
allowing livestock to graze on land that is not suitable for growing crops are called 2. _____________.

b. The first people to roam the earth and take advantage of natural resources were 3. ____________
and 4. ________________.

c. Eventually, people learned to 5. _________________, or grow plants. Two primary 6. __________

are believed to have been invented during the 7. _________________ of agricultural production.

d. The first Cultivation method is 8. _______________________, which consist of cutting of stems

from existing plants and replanting them. You may have to cultivate house plants, such as African
Violets or cacti in this manner. The other method is 9. _____________________, a method still used
in modern-day farming.

e. Many of us do 10. ___________________ annually in our backyards; we plant seeds and help
them grow.

Part II. Essay. (10pts each). Answer the questions below.

1. Why does commercial farming produce too much food? How does the US government deal with
this problem?

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2. The green revolution has raised agricultural production drastically in LDCs over the past 40 years.
However, it is not without its problems. Discuss the positive and negative aspects of the green
revolution.
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Part III. Read the article below and answer the questions that follows.

Why Filipino small farmers remain poor

By Dr. Fermin D. Adriano
August 27, 2020
Retrieved from https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/08/27/business/agribusiness/why-filipino-small-farmers-remain-poor/759852

Why are Filipino small farmers poor? Why do they remain poor despite the fertile lands and abundant
supply of fresh water in the Philippines?

The knee-jerk response of populist opinion writers dabbling in agriculture-related development issues,
and pretending to be experts on such concerns, is that the government has neglected our farmers, or
worse, exploited them to favor powerful vested interests in the country. Though there might be a grain
of truth in their hypothesis, the reality is far from their imagined existence of a pervasive conspiracy to
keep the small farmers poor.

Reasons our small farmers are poor

I can identify three major reasons our small farmers are mired in poverty based on reputable works of
our leading scholars on the matter. The first, as noted by National Scientist and economics professor
Raul Fabella (2014), is that the land retention ceiling under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program (CARP) ensured that small farmers will never get out of poverty. The low retention ceiling
(i.e., five hectares for family-cultivated farms, and three hectares each for their children up to four
kids, making a total of 17 hectares) results in economically unviable farm sizes. With the passage of
time, the original CARP beneficiaries further subdivided their lands as inheritance to their children and
grandchildren into minuscule sizes. No wonder, the average farm land size in the Philippines is now
less than 1.5 hectares.

A farmer can earn a decent income from 1.5 hectares of land if he is cultivating high value crops like
vegetables or cut flowers. However, if he is tilling traditional crops like rice, corn or coconut, there is
no way he will earn a decent income from farming. No matter how efficient the farmer is in tending his
farm, no matter how much assistance or subsidies the government provides to such a farmer, it will
be impossible for him to earn an income adequate to support the needs of a family of five or six
members with the land size that he has. It is worth pointing out that most of our farmers are engaged
in the cultivation of traditional crops.

Unorganized farmers

There are millions of small farmers in the country. The government, in particular the Department of
Agriculture (DA), whose headquarters is located in Metro Manila, cannot reach out to all of them. It is
imperative that farmers be organized into cooperatives or associations to facilitate delivery of
assistance from the government. Unfortunately, the history of cooperatives in the country is one
replete with failures. From the heyday of the Facomas (farmers’ cooperative and marketing
associations) in the 1950s, the Masagana 99 under the Marcos regime, to the establishment of the
Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) under the Aquino administration, farmers’ cooperatives in
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the country are far from the beacon of success. The reasons are three-fold: the lack of accountability
among farmer cooperative leaders; cooperatives and farmers’ associations are formed mainly to
access government dole-outs; and the government agency (e.g., CDA), which has oversight
responsibility on cooperatives, is oriented towards regulations of cooperatives rather than bestowing
them with an agribusiness perspective.

The situation is made worse by civil society organizations (CSOs) or people’s organizations (POs),
which trumpet the goal of attaining self-reliance among farmer’s groups but are always at the
frontlines of those who pillory the government if it fails to give dole-outs to the farmers. An excellent
example is the badly conceived free irrigation scheme. Providing free supply of fresh water, when
there is growing scarcity of it, encourages its wasteful use or consumption. It would have been better
if irrigation fees are collected from farmers with the proviso the fees will be used to operate and
maintain the irrigation system. This is a formula for self-reliance. Sadly, there is hardly anybody from
the CSOs and POs championing this line of argument because they prefer the popular appeal of
irrigation dole-outs.

Role of LGUs

The Local Government Code (LGC) of 1991 assigned the delivery of basic services to local
communities to local government units (LGUs). Part of this is the provision of agricultural services,
and this is the reason behind the devolution of extension workers from the DA central office to the
LGUs. Hence, any delivery of assistance coming from DA will have to be downloaded to its regional
field offices (RFOs), which in turn will have to course their assistance through the provincial and
municipal LGUs.

There are two possible bottlenecks in this arrangement. One is the competency of the provincial and
agricultural workers recruited by LGUs. In many cases, because they are political appointees (i.e.,
supporters of the incumbent), they are not qualified to do their jobs. And two, if the elected LGU
official does not give priority to agricultural development because of bias towards big-ticket
infrastructure projects (e.g., constructing sports complex, hospital complex [even without adequate
supply of medical personnel], etc.) where the rent to be extracted is much higher than the
implementation of agriculture development projects.

In such a situation, the DA is held hostage. But it has no choice but to keep on convincing LGUs of
the need to prioritize agriculture activities for two reasons. One is that it is DA’s mandate to promote
agricultural development. And two, the agency automatically gets the blame for everything bad that
happens in the local agricultural communities as the public is unmindful of the delineation of
responsibilities between LGUs and the national agency as contained in the LGC.

Journalism and social media

The major difference between journalism and social media is that in the former, the writer should be
factual in writing about events, particularly if one is writing an opinion piece. This is the strength of
reputable media firms such as The Economist, Washington Post, Financial Times, etc. Their pieces
are well thought out articles based on solid research and analyses, with some of the writers
practically experts in the fields that they are writing about. This is the reason they have found a niche
market for themselves. They have distinguished themselves from social media commentators who
shoot from the hip. Out of respect to the readers and the greater public, it is about time our opinion
writers conscientiously study first the issues they are addressing before making a written commentary
on them. Some writers think that a better command of the English language already makes them
experts on the field that they are commentating on. Unfortunately for them, I have not found a study
showing that there is a direct correlation whatsoever between speaking or writing good English and
possession of high intelligence.

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Questions:

1. Do you agree with the author? Why/ Why not?

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Part IV. Conduct an interview with farmers around you. Ask them about the common problems
farmers are facing and what they think is the possible solutions to this problem. Give your own
reflections at the end of this activity. You can follow the format for your answer.

Name of the Farmer: (optional): _____________________

Address: ______________________
Types of Agricultural work (farmer, gardener, fishermen, miner etc). ____________________

Problem 1. _____________________________ Possible Solution:

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Problem 2. _____________________________ Possible Solution:
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Problem 3. _____________________________ Possible Solution:
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Problem 4. _____________________________ Possible Solution:
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Note: You can use other sheet of paper. Just follow the format above.

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Part V. Read the article about the Revolution in Agriculture on the next page. Then answer the
questions that follows.

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Module Content adopted from Benjamin Timms, B. M. (2004). Geography G110 Introduction to Human Geography. Indian University: Trustees of
Indiana University.