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| 84218723 | Human Geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, their cultures, activities, and landscapes | |
| 84218724 | Physical Geography | A branch of geography dealing with the outside physical features, and changes of the earth; can also be called natural geography, because it not only deals with mountains, glaciers, coastlines, and climates, but also soils, plants, and animals | |
| 84218725 | Absolute Location | exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | |
| 84218726 | Relative Location | The regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places. | |
| 84218727 | Spatial Perspective | Is a geographers point of veiw looks at where somithing is and why it is there | |
| 84218728 | Map | A two-dimensional or flat-scale model of Earth's surface, or a portion of it. | |
| 84218729 | Mental Map | an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located | |
| 84218730 | Distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | |
| 84218731 | Pattern | a model considered worthy of imitation | |
| 84218732 | Formal (uniform) Region | A region composed of areas that have common cultural or physical features. | |
| 84218733 | Functional (nodal) region | Group of places linked together by some function's influence on them after diffusing from a central node. | |
| 84218734 | Perceptual (vernacular) region | Region whose boundaries are determined by people's beliefs, not a scientifically measurable process. | |
| 84218735 | Remote sensing | Technique of obtaining information about objects throught the study of data collected by special instruments that are not in physical contact with the objects being analyzed. (taken by airplains, balloons, ect.) | |
| 84218736 | Geographic Information System (GISs) | New computer program that stores geographic data and produces maps to show data. | |
| 84218737 | Diffusion | the spatial spreading of dissemination of a culture element(such as technological innovation) or some other phenomenon(such as disease outbreak). | |
| 84218738 | Expanision DIffusion | an innovation or idea develops in a source area and remains strong there while also spreading outward. | |
| 84218739 | Relocation Diffusion | the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea of innovation, and who carry it to a new, perhaps distant, locale, where they proceed to disseminate it | |
| 84218740 | Acculturation | designate the change that occurs in the culture of a less technologically advanced people when contact is make with a society that is more technolongically advanced. | |
| 84218741 | Assimilation | the process which people lose origianlly differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, wen they come into contact with another society or culture. | |
| 84218742 | Tranculturation | culture borrowing that occurs when differnet cultures of approximatly equal complexity and technological level come into close contact. | |
| 84218743 | Contagious diffusion | the distance- controlled spreading of an idea, innovation or some other item through a local population by contact form person to person | |
| 84218744 | Hierarchical diffusion | the main channel of diffustion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused. | |
| 84218745 | Stimulus diffusion | not all ideas can be readily and directly adopted by a receiving population, some are simply too vague, for immediate adoption. | |
| 84218746 | Independent invention | a major invention that doesnt guarantee surely a momentous invention | |
| 84218747 | Environmental determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over varous aspects of human life,cludes cultural development. | |
| 84218748 | Possibilism | geographic viewpoint that holds that the human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development, not the environment. | |
| 84218749 | Culture | the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior pattens shared and transmitted by the members of a society. | |
| 84218750 | Cultural diffusion | the process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element form its place of origin across a wider area. | |
| 84218751 | cultural landscape | the forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the physical landscape by the activities of varous human occupants | |
| 84218752 | culture hearth | hearland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture | |
| 84218753 | culture trait | a single element of normal practice in a culture such as the wearing of a turban | |
| 84218754 | culture complex | a related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress does and cooking and eating utensils | |
| 84218755 | culture realm | a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail | |
| 84218756 | culture region | a region within which common cultural chracterisitcs prevail | |
| 84218757 | culture system | the grouping of certain complexes such as, ethnicity, language, religion and other cultural elements | |
| 84218758 | sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave thier cultural imprints ona place, each contributiong to the cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 84218759 | Folk culture | cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities | |
| 84218760 | Popular Culture | cultrual truats such as dress, diet, and musicthat identify and are part of today's changerable, urban-based, media-influencd society | |
| 84218761 | Commodification | the process through which something is given monetary value(money value) |
