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Geo ch.1 part 2

This is Geography

TermDefinition
formal region/uniform region area within with everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
functional region/nodal region area organized around a node where the characteristic diminishes in importance away from the node
vernacular region/perceptual region area that people believe is a part of their cultural identify
cultural landscape combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation
culture body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people
culture includes what people care about and what people take care of
spatial association the degree to which the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another
globalization a process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
distribution arrangement of a feature in space
density the frequency with which something occurs in space
concentration the extent of a feature's spread over space
pattern the geometric arrangement of objects in space
humanistic geography emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those places symbolic meanings
behavioral geography emphasizes importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space
sex a biological attribute
gender a social construct that varies from society to society and across time and that can be changed
diffusion the process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time
hearth the place from which a feature or innovation originates
relocation diffusion the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
expansion diffusion the spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process
hierarchical diffusion spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
contagious diffusion the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
stimulus diffusion the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse
distance decay the theory that the farther away someone is from another, the less likely they are to interact
space-time compression the lessening of a distance decay in the modern world because the connection between places takes much less time
assimilation process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group's
acculturation process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups
syncretism combining of elements of 2 groups into a new cultural form
resource substance in the environment that is useful to people, economy, and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use
sustainability use of earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future
ecosystem group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
ecology the study of ecosystems
cultural ecology the study of human-environment relationships
environmental determinism the physical environment causes social development
possibilism the environment sets some limits, but people have the ability to adjust
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