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APHuman Vocab Ch.1
Term | Definition |
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Acculturation | cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture |
Assimilation | process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture |
Atmosphere | Layer of gases(air) |
Biosphere | the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms. |
Cartography | Science of Map Making |
Climate | the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. |
Concentration | |
Contagious diffusion | Occurs when numerous places or people near the point of origin become adopters (or infected, in the case of a disease) |
Cultural ecology | study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. |
Cultural landscape | a geographic area the includes cultural resources and natural resources associated with the interactions between nature and human behavior. |
Density | |
Diffusion | |
Distance decay | |
Distribution | |
Environmental determinism | |
Expansion diffusion | |
Formal region | |
GIS | |
Geotagging | |
GPS | |
Globalization | |
Hierarchical diffusion | |
Hydrosphere | |
Latitude | |
Longitude | |
Map | |
Mental Map | |
Meridian | |
Parallel | |
Pattern | |
Place | |
Polder | |
Possibilism | |
Prime meridian | |
Projection | |
Region | |
Relocation diffusion | |
Remote Sensing | |
Renewable resource | |
Scale | |
Site | |
Situation | |
Space-time compression | |
Stimulus diffusion | |
Sustainability | |
Syncretism | |
Transnational corporation | |
Uneven development | |
Vernacular region |