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Root Words Quiz 1. The word "submarine" shares the root "sub" with the word "subvert." What does the root "sub" mean? a) Below b) Above c) Fast d) Deep 2. The word "aquarium" shares the root "aqua" with the word "aquatic." What does the root "aqua" mean? a) Water b) Air c) Fire d) Land 3. The word "transport" shares the root "port" with the word "portable." What does the root "port" mean? a) To carry b) To build c) To read d) To speak 4. The word "spectator" shares the root "spect" with the word "inspect." What does the root "spect" mean? a) To look b) To hear c) To touch d) To smell 5. The word "chronology" shares the root "chron" with the word "synchronize." What does the root "chron" mean? a) Time b) Space c) Light d) Weather 6. The word "microscope" shares the root "micro" with the word "microbe." What does the root "micro" mean? a) Small b) Large c) Fast d) Bright 7. The word "hydrophobia" shares the root "hydro" with the word "hydraulic." What does the root "hydro" mean? a) Water b) Fire c) Fear d) Air 8. The word "autograph" shares the root "auto" with the word "automatic." What does the root "auto" mean? a) Self b) Many c) Fast d) Together 9. The word "biography" shares the root "bio" with the word "biology." What does the root "bio" mean? a) Life b) Death c) Nature d) Movement 10. The word "television" shares the root "tele" with the word "telecommunication." What does the root "tele" mean? a) Far b) Close c) Bright d) Near
Makharij al-Huruf (مخارج الحروف) refers to the specific places or points in the mouth and throat from which the Arabic letters originate. Knowing the correct makhraj is essential for proper Qur’an recitation. 📌 There are 5 main articulation areas in the human vocal system: Al-Jawf (the empty space in the mouth and throat) Al-Halq (the throat) Al-Lisan (the tongue) Ash-Shafatain (the two lips) Al-Khayshum (the nasal cavity) and trainer What is the meaning of "Makharij al-Huruf"? A. Rules of stopping B. Points of articulation C. Types of letters D. Tajwid marks ✅ Answer: B Which letters originate from the lips (Ash-Shafatain)? A. Alif, Waw, Ya B. Fa, Ba, Meem, Waw C. Ta, Da, Tha D. Kha, Ha, Ghayn ✅ Answer: B Where do the letters ‘ع’ and ‘ح’ originate from? A. Lips B. Nasal cavity C. Throat D. Tongue ✅ Answer: C The nasal cavity (Al-Khayshum) is the source of which sound? A. Ghunna B. Qalqalah C. Ikhfa D. Idgham ✅ Answer: A Which letter is produced from the middle of the tongue? A. Lam B. Kaf C. Jeem D. Ba ✅ Answer: C The sound of letter 'ق' comes from: A. The lips B. The nose C. The back of the tongue touching the soft palate D. The teeth ✅ Answer: C How many main articulation areas are there in Makharij al-Huruf? A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 ✅ Answer: C Which of the following is a letter from Al-Jawf? A. Ba B. Waw (madd) C. Fa D. Tha ✅ Answer: B What does 'Ghunna' mean in tajwid? A. Prolongation B. Nasal sound C. Pause D. Echoing sound ✅ Answer: B Which letters are articulated with both lips closed? A. Fa and Waw B. Ba and Meem C. Ta and Da D. Ha and Kha ✅ Answer: B
Align Panel: This panel allows you to align one or more objects the the artboard or other objects. Alignment: Formatting the appearance of text with the margins of the text box. Anchor Point Tool: Allows you to add or remove handles to create a curve on an anchor point. Anchor Points: A point on a path indicates a change of direction. Appearance Panel: This panel shows you the fill, strokes, graphic styles, and effects that have been applied to an object, group or layer and are able to modify theses from this panel directly. Area Type Tool: This occurs when using the type tool and you click and drag a text box, the text will automatically wrap inside the box. Blend Tool: This tool allows you to combine shapes/colors between two or more objects to create a new object between the original, blending the colors and shapes by inserting the middle steps to get from one object to the next. Blob Brush Tool: This tool is used to create free-form objects that can have a more hand-drawn feel. Brushes: Allows you to set the appearance/style of a path, can be applied to existing paths or used to create new paths. Clipping Masks: This command allows you to mask objects to a shape so that only areas that lie within the shape are visible, the mask and objects that are masked are called a clipping set. Closed Path: A path that has the same beginning and ending point. It forms a complete shape that can be filled with color or text. Create Outlines: This command converts text to closed paths and can be found in the Type Menu. Curvature Pen Tool: Allows you to simply create paths with curved anchor points. Curves: Can be applied to an anchor point using handles to create an arched line. Direct Select Tool: Allows you to select individual points of any path. Effects: These can be added to objects to create quick dynamic characteristics. Eraser Tool: This tool allows you to remove anchor points and cut through paths. Expand Objects: This allows you to divide a single object into multiple objects that make up its appearance. Eyedropper Tool: This tool allows you to sample the color or text from an existing part of the artwork. Global Swatches: This is a color swatches that will be automatically updated throughout your artwork when you change them, indicated with a white triangle in the corner of the swatch. Graphic Styles: A set of reusable appearance attributes that allow you to quickly change the look of an object. Grouping: This command allows you to link objects together so that they can be moved, scaled, rotator, or copy. Groups can be nested inside other groups. Hierarchy: To create visual order in design, controlling what the viewer looks at in order using size, color, contrast, etc… Image Trace: This command allows you to convert a raster image into a vector artwork. Isolation Mode: This mode allows you to adjust single objects/groups inside a group without ungrouping the group. Join Tool: This tool joins paths and anchor points together quickly. Kerning: This is the adjustment of the space between two individual letters. Knife Tool: This tool allows you to split an object into 2 pieces along a freehand path you draw. Leading: This is the adjustment of the space between lines of text. Live Corners: This widget appears when using the Direct Select tool and a corner is selected, when used this will create a rounded corner. Live Paint: This command allows you to quickly apply colors to objects in a complex design. Open Path: A path that does not end, not connected back to the original anchor point. Overflow Text: This occurs when the text box is too small to house all the text and is indicated by a small red plus sign in the bottom right corner of the text box. Paintbrush Tool: This tool is used to create free-form paths that can have a more hand-drawn feel. Paragraph Spacing: The space that occurs between lines of text. Pathfinder Panel: This panel allows you to create complex shapes by selecting 2 or more objects and using the buttons in the panel to cut, combine, or divide the objects. Paths: These are created when 2 or more points are connected, these are created using the pen tool. Pen Tool: It allows you to create and edit anchor points and paths. Pencil Tool: This tool is used to create free-form shapes or lines, the accuracy of the lines can be adjusted. Perspective Tool: This tool allows you to place elements on a perspective grid to adjust objects on a different perspective, automatically snapping to the perspective grid. Placeholder Text: Text that is placed in a text box that "holds a place" in a design to allow for creating a layout or adjust the text design. Point Type Tool: This occurs when when using the type tool and you click once, the text will continue without wrapping. Readability: The characteristics of fonts and styles that make test easy to identify and read. Scale, Shear, Distort Objects: This set of commands allows you to adjust the size and perspective of objects. Scissors Tool: This tool allows you to split a path into 2 pieces. Selection Tool: Allows you to select paths, objects or groups by click or dragging over them. Shape Builder Tool: This interactive tool allows you to create complex shapes by merging and erasing simpler objects. Shapes Tools: A group of tools to create basic shapes without using the pen tool (rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star, etc…). Smooth Tool: This tool will smooth a complex path and reduce the number of anchor points. Swatches: This is a saved color that can be applied in a design via the swatches panel and can be grouped, these can include gradients and patterns. Text Wrapping: This is when the text in a text box automatically wraps to the next line when it reaches the edge of the box. Threading Text: This is the ability to create 2 or more text boxes that are linked, when text is added/adjusted in one box, it will affect the other(s). Touch Type Tool: This tool allows you to adjust individual letter in a previously created text box. Tracking: This is the adjustment of the overall spacing between letters. Transform Objects: This allows you to change the size of objects. Type on a Path Tool: This tool allows you to add text along any previously created path. Type Tool: This tool allows you to create text in a design. View Modes: Ability to view projects and adjust the display on the screen. Modes include Outlines, Presentation, & Full Screen.
THE SOAR SYSTEM A solar system is a group of planets and other celestial bodies that revolve around a star. A solar nebula- a vast cloud of gas and dust, mostly hydrogen and helium. How the Solar System Form • COLLAPSE AND SPINNING DISK FORMATION - Gravity pulls material inward. The cloud flattens into a spinning disk due to conservation of angular momentum. • PROTOSTAR FORMATION- (BIRTH OF THE SUN). Material collects at the center, and begun to heat up. When it reaches to 10 million KELVIN, nuclear fusion begins. thus, SUN is born. • PLANETESIMALS AND PROTOPLANETS. Dust and gas in the disk stick together via static and gravitational forces. These form planetesimals, which grow into protoplanets collision and accretion. • PLANET FORMATION. Inner disk: too hot for gas rocky planets form Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. • PLANET FORMATION. Outer disk: gas and ice giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune • LEFTOVER DEBRIS. Remaining materials forms moon, asteroids, comets and dwarf planets. DIFFERENT HYPOTHESIS IN THE FORMATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM. 1. NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS- The Solar system formed from a rotating cloud of Gas and Dust (solar nebula). As it rotates conservation of angular momentum caused the cloud to flatten into a disk. the Sun formed at the center (DISK) while planets formed from the surrounding materials through acceleration. thus, it explains the coplanar and nearly circular orbit of the planets all planets orbits around the sun on the same flat, disk shaped plane. Proposed by Immanuel Kant in 1755 and Modified by Pierre Simon Laplace in 1756. PROTOPLANET HYPOTHESIS. The Solar system formed from a rotating cloud of Gas and Dust (solar nebula). As it rotates conservation of angular momentum caused the cloud to flatten into a disk. 2. Protoplanet hypothesis. Builds on the nebular model but focuses more on the role of planetesimals which then form into full planets. PROCESS: - Small solid particles stick together through collisions. As collisions takes place, it grows into kilometer-sized planetesimals. Gravitational interactions lead to the formation of planets. Lead to formation of steroids belts and varying planet sizes 3. Encounter hypothesis. States that the sun encountered a rogue star. The encounter led to the removal of hot gas from both stars due to their gravitational interaction. The hot gas then accumulated and formed the planets. The materials from the less dense rogue star formed the other planets, while that from the sun formed the inner planets. 4. TIDAL HYPOTHESIS. (also called the Tidal Theory) is an early scientific idea about how the solar system might have formed. Proposed by James Jeans and Harold Jeffreys. A massive star passed very close to the early Sun. The hot gas then accumulated and formed the planets. The materials from the less dense rogue star formed the other planets, while that from the sun formed the inner planets. Streams of hot gas were drawn out from the Sun in elongated shape. These streams eventually condensed and cooled, forming planets, moons, and other bodies in the solar system. 5. Not accepted theory. Later studies showed the streams of hot gas would disperse too quickly into space instead of condensing into planets. The theory also couldn’t explain the specific orbital patterns and compositions we see today. Modern science favors the Nebular Hypothesis, which explains solar system formation through the collapse of a rotating gas cloud. Earth as the only habitable planet 1. Right Distance from the Sun (The Goldilocks Zone). Not too hot, not too cold — just right for liquid water to exist. 2. Atmosphere with Oxygen. Earth has a mix of gases, especially oxygen, which most living things need to survive. 3. Liquid Water. Earth has oceans, rivers, and rain — water is essential for all life. 4. Magnetic Field. Earth’s magnetic field protects us from harmful solar radiation. 5. Stable Climate. The atmosphere and natural cycles keep temperatures and weather mostly stable over time. 6. Rich Resources. Earth has soil for growing food, minerals, and energy sources that support life and technology. Solar explorations 1. AUGUST 6, 2014. First space craft to orbit a comet (ROSETTA PROBE). Captures the comet photograph. -Comets have coma and tail as it approaches to the sun. 2. JULY 14, 2015. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history by becoming the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto, giving us our first close-up look at the dwarf planet. First time visiting Pluto. Before this, Pluto was just a blurry dot in telescope images. Revealed a surprising world New Horizons showed mountains of ice, smooth plains, and a heart-shaped region called Tombaugh Regio. Changed what we knew. Scientists thought Pluto would be dull and frozen — instead, it turned out to be geologically active and incredibly complex. 3. SEPTEMBER 8, 2016. NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid and return it to Earth. Changed what we knew. Scientists thought Pluto would be dull and frozen — instead, it turned out to be geologically active and incredibly complex. OSIRIS-REx stands for: Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security–Regolith Explorer It was sent to study the asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters wide. Mission Goals: Collect a sample of surface material from Bennu Study the asteroid’s omposition, structure, and history. Mission Goals: Help scientists understand the origins of the solar system. Learn more about asteroids that could impact Earth. 4. August 12, 2018: Launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the first spacecraft to "touch" the Sun by flying through its outer atmosphere, called the corona. Mission Goal: To study the Sun up close and help scientists understand: How the solar wind (a stream of charged particles) is formed. Why the Sun’s corona is hotter than its surface. What causes solar storms that can affect Earth’s satellites and power grids. 5. November 26, 2018: NASA’s Insight Lander Touches Down on Mars. Its mission was focused on studying the interior of the Red Planet (crust, mantle, and core of the planet). Why the Sun’s corona is hotter than its surface. What causes solar storms that can affect Earth’s satellites and power grids 6. November 26, 2018: NASA’s Insight Lander Touches Down on Mars. Its mission was focused on studying the interior of the Red Planet (crust, mantle, and core of the planet) 7. JULY 30, 2020 PERSEVERANCE PROBE. Perseverance rover as part of the Mars 2020 mission aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket This marked a major step in Mars exploration. 8. DECEMBER 25, 2021-JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE. Investigate exoplanets’ atmospheres for signs of habitability. Observe the first galaxies formed after the Big Bang. Study the formation of stars and planetary systems. Look deeper into the infrared universe than ever before. RESULTS OF EXPLORATION • Evidence of Ancient Life-friendly Environment. • Sedimentary rocks formed in water-rich environments. • Signs of clay and carbonate minerals, which can preserve biosignatures (traces of past life). • Evidence of Ancient Life-friendly Environment. • Sedimentary rocks formed in water-rich environments. • Signs of clay and carbonate minerals, which can preserve biosignatures (traces of past life). • Evidence of Ancient Life-friendly Environment. • Sedimentary rocks formed in water-rich environments. • Signs of clay and carbonate minerals, which can preserve biosignatures (traces of past life).
To the Lakota, and other indigenous people on North America's Great Plains, the bison was an essential part of their culture ( expressed in the quote on the previous page). The bison provided meat for nutrition, a hide for clothing and shelter, bones for tools, and fat for soap. The bison was also central to their religious beliefs. So, when European settlers hunted the bison nearly to extinction, Lakota culture suffered. Culture is central to a society and the identity of its people, as well as its continued existence. Therefore, geographers study culture as a way to understand similarities and differences among societies across the world, and in some cases, to help preserve these societies. Analyzing Culture All of a group's learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects are a part of culture. It is a visible force seen in a group's actions, possessions, and influence on the landscape. For example, in a large city you can see people working in offices, factories, and stores, and living in high-rise apartments or suburban homes. You might observe them attending movies, concerts, or sporting events. Culture is also an invisible force guiding people through shared belief systems, customs, and traditions. Culture is learned, in that it develops through experiences, and not merely transmitted through genetics. For example, many people in the United States have developed a strong sense of competitiveness in school and business, and believe that hard work is a key to success. These types of elements, visible and invisible, are cultural traits. A series of interrelated traits make up a cultural complex, such as the process of steps and acceptable behaviors related to greeting a person in different cultures. A single cultural artifact, such as an automobile, may represent many different values, beliefs, behaviors and traditions and be representative of a cultural complex. Since culture is learned there are many ways that one generation passes its culture to the next. Children and adults learn traits three ways: • imitation, as when learning a language by repeating sounds or behaviors from a person or television • informal instruction, as when a parent reminds a child to say "please" • formal instruction, as when students learn history in school 132 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: AP" EDITION CULTURAL COMPLEX OF THE AUTOMOBILE The automobile provides much more than just transportation, as it reflects many values that are central to American culture. Origins of Culture The area in which a unique culture or a specific trait develops is a culture hearth. Classical Greece was a culture hearth for democracy more than 2,000 years ago. New York City was a culture hearth for rap music in the 1970s. Geographers study how cultures develop in hearths and diffuse-or spread-to other places. Geographers also study taboos, behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture. For example, many cultures have taboos against eating certain foods, such as pork or insects. What is considered taboo changes over time. In the United States, marriages between Protestants and Catholics were once taboo, but they are not widely opposed now. Traditional, Folk, and Indigenous Cultures With the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, modern transportation and communication connected people as never before and led to extensive cultural mixing, especially as cities have grown. The world prior to this time was very different; however, remnants of the past are still evident in our modern cultures. Traditional, folk, and indigenous cultures share some important characteristics and are often grouped together, but they do have some subtle differences. Traditional Culture Recently, the meanings of traditional, folk, and indigenous culture have begun to merge, causing geographers to debate when each should be used. Increasingly, the term traditional culture is used to encompass all three cultural designations. All three types share the function of passing down long-held beliefs, values, and practices and are generally resistant to rapid changes in their culture. Folk Culture The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change, are known as folk cultures. Like all cultures, they demonstrate the diverse ways that people have adapted to a physical environment. For example, people around the world learned to make shelters out of available resources, whether 3.1: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURE 133 it was snow or mud bricks or wood. However, people used similar resources such as wood differently. In Scandinavia, people used trees to build cabins. In the American Midwest, people processed trees into boards, built a frame, and attached the boards to it. Many traits of folk culture continue today. Corn was first grown in Mexico around 10,000 years ago, and it is still grown there today. While many elements of folk culture exist side by side with modern culture, there are people whose societies have changed little, if at all, from long ago. These people practice traditional cultures, those which have not been affected by modern technology or influences. They often live in remote regions, such as some small tribes in the Amazon rainforest, and have scant knowledge of the outside world. As the lines continue blurring between cultural designations, the Amish of Pennsylvania are often referenced as both folk and traditional culture. Indigenous Culture When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically possess unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language, they are considered an indigenous culture. Some indigenous peoples have been displaced from their native lands, but still practice their indigenous culture. Native Americans in the United States, such as the Navajo, have kept indigenous cultural practices. First Nations of Canada, such as the Inuit, have also retained their indigenous culture. Globalization and Popular Culture As a result of the Industrial Revolution, improvements in transportation and communication have shortened the time required for movement, trade, or other forms of interaction between two places. This development, known as space-time compression (see Topics 1.4 and 3.6), has accelerated culture change around the world. In 1817, a freight shipment from Cincinnati needed 52 days to reach New York City. By 1850, because of canals and railroads, it took half that long. And by 1852, it took only 7 days. Today, an airplane flight takes only a few hours, and digital information takes seconds or less. Similar change has occurred on the global scale. People travel freely across the world in a matter of hours, and communication has advanced to a point where people share information instantaneously across the globe. The increased global interaction has had a profound impact on cultures, from spreading English across the world to instant sharing of news, events and music. Globalization specifically refers to the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s. The process of intensified interaction among peoples, governments, and companies of different countries around the globe has had profound impacts on culture. The culture of the United States is intertwined with globalization. Through the influence of its corporations, Hollywood movies, and government, the United States exerts widespread influence in other countries. But other countries also shape American culture. For example, in 2019, the National Basketball Association included players from 38 countries or territories. When cultural traits- such as clothing, music, movies, and types of 134 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: AP. EDITION businesses-spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups, they become part of popular culture. Elements of popular culture often begin in urban areas and diffuse quickly through globalization processes such as the media and Internet. These elements can quickly be adopted worldwide, making them part of global culture. People around the world follow European soccer, Indian Bollywood movies, and Japanese animation known as anime. With people in many nations wearing similar clothes, listening to similar music, and eating similar food, popular cultural traits often promote uniformity in beliefs, values, and the cultural landscape across many places The cultural landscape, also known as the built environment (see Topic 3.2), is the modification of the environment by a group and is a visible reflection of that group's cultural beliefs and values. Traditional Culture to Popular Culture Popular culture emphasizes trying what is new rather than preserving what is traditional. Many people, especially older generations or those who follow a folk culture, openly resist the adoption of popular cultural traits. They do this by preserving traditional languages, religions, values, and foods. While older generations often resist the adoption of popular culture, they seldom are successful in keeping their traditional cultures from changing, especially among the young people of their society. One clash between popular and traditional culture is occurring in Brazil. As the population expands to the interior of the rain forest, many indigenous cultures, like the Yanamamo tribe, have more contact with outside groups. Remaining isolated by the forest is becoming increasingly difficult as many young people from the indigenous cultures become exposed to popular culture and begin to integrate into the larger Brazilian society. As the young people leave their communities, they are more likely to accept popular culture at the expense of their indigenous cultural heritage, which threatens the very existence of their folk culture. Traditional culture typically exhibits horizontal diversity, meaning each traditional culture has its own customs and language that makes it distinct from other culture groups. Yet, people people within each group are usually homogeneous, or very similar to each other. By contrast, popular culture typically exhibits vertical diversity, meaning that modern urban societies are usually heterogeneous, or exhibiting differences, within the society and usually contain numerous multiethnic neighborhoods. However, on a global scale popular cultures are relatively similar with the same type of malls, shops, fast food, and clothing. Urban global culture centers are not identical, yet, global cities often do not have as much horizontal diversity across space as folk cultures. 3.1: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURE 135 COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND POPULAR CULTURE Trait Traditional Culture Popular or Global Culture Society • Rural and isolated location • Urban and connected location • Homogeneous and • Diverse and multiethnic indigenous population population • Most people speak an • Many people speak a global indigenous or ethnic local language such as English or language Arabic • Horizontal diversity • Vertical diversity Social • Emphasis on community and • Emphasis on individualism and Structure conformity making choices • Families live close to each • Dispersed families other • Weakly defined gender roles • Well-defined gender roles Diffusion • Relatively slow and limited • Relatively rapid and extensive • Primarily through relocation • Often hierarchical • Oral traditions and stories • Social media and mass media Buildings and • Materials produced locally, • Materials produced in distant Housing such as stone or grass factories, such as steel or glass • Built by community or owner • Built by a business • Similar style for community • Variety of architectural styles • Different between cultures • Similar between cities • Traditional architecture • Postmodern / contemporary architecture Food • Locally produced • Often imported • Choices limited by tradition • Wide range of choice • Prepared by the family or • Purchased in restaurants community Spatial Focus • Local and regional • National and global Artifacts, Mentifacts, and Sociofacts Whether a cultural attribute is considered traditional, folk, indigenous, or popular in nature, it is valuable to differentiate between elements of culture that can be seen and those that can not. There are artifacts that comprise the material culture, which consists of tangible things, or those that can be experienced by the senses. Art, clothing, food, music, sports, and housing types are all tangible elements of culture. Another element of the study of artifacts is understanding the techniques to use or build a specific artifact. Artifacts can be unique to a particular culture, or can be shared. For example, people of all cultures need to communicate through language, yet there are many groups that possess languages unique to their culture. The ability to read, write and understand the English language is an artifact of importance for much of popular global culture. 136 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: AP" EDITION Mentifacts comprise a group's nonmaterial culture and consist ofintangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence. Beliefs, values, practices, and aesthetics (pleasing in appearance) determine what a cultural group views as acceptable and desirable. Mentifacts can also be unique or shared. People of many cultures possess an belief in one or many deities, and often the deities are unique to that culture. The belief in a god is a mentifact-the religious building or symbols are artifacts. Cultural groups also possess sociofacts, which are the ways people organize their society and relate to one another. Taken altogether, people tend to see the whole of their culture as greater than the sum of its individual parts. Sociofacts are embodied through families, governments, sports teams, religious organizations, education systems, and other social constructs. As with artifacts and mentifacts, sociofacts may also be unique or similar to other societies. Families are the foundations of most societies, yet what constitutes the structure of a family may vary widely between cultural groups. For example, Western cultures tend to view the nuclear family, consisting of the parents and their children as the basic family unit. By contrast, in many Western African cultures the norm is the extended family, consisting of several generations and other family members such as cousins living under one roof.