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| 1483561313 | Geography | The study of spatial patterns and of differences and similarities from one place to another in environment and culture. Greek: Geography = To describe the Earth | 0 | |
| 1812992433 | Culture | A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including such feature ans speech, ideology, behavior, livelihood, technology, and government; or the local customary way of doing things - a way of life; an ever-changing process in which a group is actively engaged; a dynamic mix of symbols, beliefs, speech, and practices. Way of life: Food, Religion, Knowledge/Education, Clothing, Language. Culture changes, is learned, is material/noun (house/language) | 1 | |
| 1745063580 | Cultural Geography | The study of spatial variations among cultural groups and the spacial functioning if society. Homogenization. | 2 | |
| 1134298846 | Physical Environment | All aspects of the natural physical surroundings, such as climate, terrain, soils, vegetation, and wildlife. | 3 | |
| 361168314 | Geographical Concepts/Themes | Cultural Region. Cultural Diffusion. Cultural Ecology. Cultural Interaction. (Integration) Cultural Landscape. | 4 | |
| 323619912 | Cultural Region | A geographical unit based on characteristics and functions of culture. | 5 | |
| 824865258 | Formal Cultural Region | A cultural region inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common. | 6 | |
| 479365253 | Border Zone | The area where different regions meet and sometimes overlap. | 7 | |
| 385172066 | Core-Periphery | A concept based on the tendency of both formal and functional culture regions to consist of a core, in which defining traits are purest or functions are headquartered, and periphery that is tributary and displays fewer of the defining traits. | 8 | |
| 93448417 | Functional Cultural Region | A culture area that functions as a unit politically, socially, or economically. | 9 | |
| 1754731087 | Node | A central point in a functional region where functions are coordinated and directed. | 10 | |
| 1265345800 | Vernacular Cultural Region | A cultural region perceived to exist by its inhabitants; based in the collective spatial perception of the population at large; bearing a generally accepted name or nickname (such as Dixie). | 11 | |
| 1956964495 | Cultural Diffusion | The spread of elements of culture from the point of origin over an area. | 12 | |
| 877488488 | Independent Invention | A cultural innovation that is developed in two or more locations by individuals or groups working independently. | 13 | |
| 1351939281 | Relocation Diffusion | The spread of an innovation or other element of culture that occurs with the bodily relocation (migration) of the individual or group responsible for the innovation. | 14 | |
| 1059173694 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of innovations within an area in a snowballing process so that the total number of knowers or users becomes greater and the area of occurrence grows. | 15 | |
| 752674429 | Hierarchical Diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion in which innovations spread from one urban center to another, temporarily bypassing other persons or rural areas. IE. Fashion. Something moves from Important place to important place. | 16 | |
| 734142358 | Contagious Diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion in which cultural innovations spread by person-to-person contact, moving wavelike through an area and population without regard to social status. | 17 | |
| 587111064 | Stimulus Diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion in which a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea or concept is accepted. | 18 | |
| 588125693 | Cybergeography | A branch of geography that studies the Internet as a virtual place. Cybergeographers examine locations in cyberspace as sites of human interaction with structures that can be mapped. | 19 | |
| 1381458695 | Time-Distance Decay | The decrease in acceptance of a cultural innovation with increasing time and distance from its origin. | 20 | |
| 472587524 | Absorbing Barrier | A barrier that completely halts diffusion of innovations and blocks the spread of cultural elements. | 21 | |
| 1722829022 | Permeable Barrier | A barrier that permits some aspects of an innovation to diffuse through it but weakens and retards continued spread. An innovation can be modified in padding through a permeable barrier. | 22 | |
| 963924327 | Neighborhood Effect | Microscale diffusion in which acceptance of an innovation is most rapid in small clusters around an initial adopter. | 23 | |
| 1432617658 | Migration | The large-scale movement of people between different regions of the world. | 24 | |
| 720354969 | Transnationalism | A phenomenon in which immigrants maintain social and/or economic ties to their place of origin. Often, these relationships include visits "home" and the circular exchange of money and goods. | 25 | |
| 1644020384 | Globalization | The binding together of all lands and peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by capitalistic free markets, in which cultural diffusion is rapid, independent states are weakened, and cultural homogenization is encouraged. | 26 | |
| 705640722 | Uneven Development | The tendency for industry to develop in a core-periphery pattern, enriching the industrailized countries of the core and impoverishing the less-industrialized periphery. The term is also used to describe urban patterns in which the inner city is impoverished. | 27 | |
| 516693241 | Cultural Ecology | Broadly defined, the study of the relationships between the physical environment and culture; narrowly (and more commonly) defined, the study of culture as an adaptive system that facilitates human adaptation to nature and the environmental change. (Oikos = Home) | 28 | |
| 1755878724 | Ecosystem | A territorially bounded system consisting of interaction between organic and inorganic components. | 29 | |
| 868061936 | Cultural Adaptation | The adaptation of humans and cultures to the challenges posed by the physical environment. | 30 | |
| 426123692 | Adaptive Strategy | The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment; those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter, and defense. | 31 | |
| 1202361474 | Environmental Determinism | The belief that cultures are directly or indirectly shaped by the physical environment. IE. Old Mexico City. | 32 | |
| 598633397 | Possibilism | A school of thought based in the belief that humans, rather than the physical environment, are the primary active force; that any environment offers a number of possible ways for a culture to develop; and that the choices among these possibilities are guided by cultural heritage. | 33 | |
| 1589999399 | Environmental Perception | The belief that culture depends more on what people perceive the environment to be than on the actual character if the environment; perception, in turn, is colored by the teachings of culture. | 34 | |
| 238705916 | Natural Hazard | Inherent danger present in a given habitat, such as flooding, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, or earthquakes; often perceived differently by different peoples. | 35 | |
| 136056519 | Organic View of Nature | The view that humans are part of, not separate from, nature and that the habitat possesses a soul and is filled with nature-spirits. | 36 | |
| 622721889 | Mechanistic View of Nature | The view that humans are separate from nature and hold dominion over it and that the habitat is an integrated mechanism governed by external forces that the human mind can understand and manipulate. | 37 | |
| 204568238 | Cultural Interaction | The relationship of various elements within a culture. | 38 | |
| 1336826883 | Space | A term used to connote the objective, quantitative, theoretical, model-based, economics-oriented type of geography that seeks to understand spatial systems and networks through application of the principles of social science. | 39 | |
| 1492635029 | Model | An abstraction, an imaginary situation, proposed by geographers to simulate laboratory conditions so that they may isolate certain causal forces for detailed study. | 40 | |
| 509194013 | Place | A term used to connote the subjective, humanistic, culturally oriented type of geography that seeks to understand the unique character of individual regions and places, rejecting the principles of science as flawed and unknowingly biased. | 41 | |
| 462674362 | Topophilia | Love of place; used to describe people who exhibit a strong sense of place. | 42 | |
| 1521273049 | Cultural Landscape | The artificial landscape; the visible human imprint on the land. | 43 | |
| 949224933 | Symbolic Landscape | Landscape that express the values, beliefs, and meaning of a particular culture. | 44 | |
| 848168992 | Settlement Form | The spatial arrangement of buildings, roads, towns, and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area. | 45 | |
| 177057529 | Nucleation | A settlement form characterized by density. | 46 | |
| 1580559586 | Dispersed | A settlement form in which people live relatively distant from one another. | 47 | |
| 727601601 | Architectural Style | The exterior and interior design and layout of the cultural and physical landscape. | 48 | |
| 725045997 | Cultural Systems | Pattern > Process (why) > Culture. | 49 | |
| 1514629123 | In-Situ | Almost everything has a point of origin IE. Hoolahoop | 50 | |
| 795839984 | Relocation vs Expansion | Taking or moving vs Idea that things spread over time. | 51 | |
| 1279775387 | Protestantization | Missions | 52 | |
| 250213182 | In-Situ vs Independent | Once (normal) vs Multiple (rarely) | 53 | |
| 706211912 | Range Expansion | IFA from 1918-1998 IE. Fire ants from South America. | 54 | |
| 879934954 | Contagious Expansion Diffusion | Malaria, Pneumonia | 55 | |
| 1539249910 | Landscape | Visible material expression of humans. (Everything you see when you walk outside) | 56 | |
| 1486862093 | Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion | Slow take over. IE. WalMart | 57 | |
| 288320507 | Meso American Trilogy | Corn, Beans, Squash. They are symbiotic | 58 | |
| 403381541 | Axiom | Ordinary vernacular landscape - unintentionally reflects. | 59 | |
| 421961997 | Converging Cultures | Two areas come to be more and more alike. | 60 |
