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APHuman Vocab Ch.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |