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Geo ch.1 part 2
This is Geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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