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| One of the two major divisions of Geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | ||
| The realm of geography that studies the structures, processes, distributions, and change through time of the natural phenomena of the earth's surface. | ||
| The exact position of a place on the earth's surface. | ||
| the position of a place in relation to another place | ||
| observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. | ||
| a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it) | ||
| 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. | ||
| the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume | ||
| a customary way of operation or behavior | ||
| An area that is defined by nearly everyone sharing the same characteristics. | ||
| An area organized around a node or focal point | ||
| a region defined by popular feelings and images rather than by objective data | ||
| A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study. | ||
| A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. | ||
| the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another | ||
| The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | ||
| The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | ||
| the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend of one group by another group | ||
| the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture | ||
| Two cultures that equally function as sources and adopters of cultural traits and patterns. | ||
| The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | ||
| The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. | ||
| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | ||
| development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances | ||
| the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development | ||
| The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | ||
| The knowledge, attitudes, & behaviors shared & transmitted by members of a society. | ||
| the spread of cultural elements from one society to another | ||
| the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | ||
| Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture. | ||
| a single element of normal practice in a culture (ex, wearing a turban, speaking Chinese) | ||
| Two cultures display the same trait but use it differently. | ||
| A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail, and basically one term is used to describe a lot of different groups of people. | ||
| an area in which people have many shared culture traits | ||
| Elements that shape a group's collective identity with things like traits, territory, shared history, and language that people relate with each other | ||
| when successful societies in a succession of cultures leave their imprint on a place | ||
| Traditional culture traits being practiced by relatively isolated, rural areas | ||
| the aspects of current culture that make up its arts and entertainment (such as fads, fashions, art, media, music, movies, sports, advertising, etc.) | ||
| the process though which something is given monetary value and changed in a way to make it go from marketable to unmarketable |
