AP Human Geography

Chapter 5 Study Guide 4

Religion, Nature, and Landscape
1. What do Aboriginal tribes believe about the Earth?

2. What connection do religious rituals have with the environment?

3. What environmental features are often considered sacred spaces in

various religions?

4. What does the term geopiety coined by geographer J.K. Wright

refer to?

5. How did geographer Yi-Fu Tuan extend this definition?

6. What two important points follow from the extension of geopietys

definition?

7. What organization is a prime example of the second point?

8. What does the term religious ecology refer to?

9. What did historian Lynn White, Jr. argue regarding religious ecology
and Judeo-Christian beliefs?

10.
Why is this point of view inaccurate (why cant it be solely
blamed on Judeo-Christian teachings and beliefs)?

11.
on?

What point do many scholars agree with historian Lynn White, Jr.

12.
What does the concept of environmental stewardship
describe?

13.
What branches of Christianity consider churches themselves as
sacred spaces, or in other words the house of God?

14.

How often do Hindus visit a temple?

15.
What do many Hindus keep in their homes for daily worship
known as puja?
16.
What practice related to death do many Christians share?

17.

What determines the selection of grave sites in Buddhism?

18.

What religion requires in-ground burial?

19.

What religious groups typically cremate their dead?

20.
What do Hindus believe about performing cremation next to the
Ganges river?

21.
According to the What a Geographer Sees section on pgs. 156157, what state in the southeast still has large number of small family
cemeteries?

22.
What seems to be happening in relation to cemeteries
throughout the rest of the country?

23.
What belief systems have fused to form a unique above ground
burial system in Alaska?

24.
What is happening in China in relation to cremation and burial in
relation to scarcity of space?
25.

What is a mausoleum?