What is the name given to a large apartment-like house in the Amazon Basin…
2023
What is the name given to a large apartment-like house in the Amazon Basin with a steeply slanting roof?
Answer: B. Maloca — CONCEPTIn human geography, vernacular dwelling terms identify houses by local building traditions, while crop names identify cultivated plants. A communal…
- A.
Manioc
- B.
Maloca
- C.
Cassava
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: B
CONCEPT
In human geography, vernacular dwelling terms identify houses by local building traditions, while crop names identify cultivated plants.
A communal Amazonian house is a shared residential structure, not a food-crop term.
APPLICATION
The description points to an Indigenous communal dwelling in the Amazon Basin: a large apartment-like house with a steeply slanting roof. The term for that structure is Maloca.
CONTRAST
Manioc and cassava are two names for the same starchy root crop used as food.
More than one of the above would require at least two listed terms to denote the dwelling; the crop terms do not do so.
None of the above would require no listed term to denote the dwelling; Maloca does denote it.
CROSS-CHECK
Matching both the category and the roof-and-use description leaves one dwelling name, Maloca; the remaining content terms are crop names. Therefore, the answer is Maloca.