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Ap human geo
regions and diffusion review
Question | Answer |
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hierarchical diffusion | Spread outward from the most interconnected place; wealth; importance; power to other persons. EX: Urban to rural, CEO-consumers, politician - constituents |
contagious diffusion | Idea/characteristic that rapidly and continuously spreads from its hearth; contact bu person to person EX: Influenza, viral internet content |
stimulus diffusion | Spread of an idea/process/principle to another culture but then modify it and reject specific aspects of original EX: McDonald's different food in different countries |
relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea from one place to another; usually by movement of people EX: Pizza from Italy |
region | must: have activities, people, an environment, differ in some way from other regions and possible differ from political boundaries |
Formal region | |
Functional Region | |
Vernacular Region |