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| 84216565 | Human Geography | branch of geography primarily concerned with analyzing the structure, processes, and location of human creations and interactions with the earth | |
| 84216566 | Physical Geography | concerned with the locations of such earth features as land, water, and climate; their relationship to one another and to human activities; and the forces that create and change them | |
| 84216567 | Absolute Location | exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | |
| 84216568 | Relative Location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | |
| 84216569 | Spatial Perspective | Outlook through which geographers identify, explain, and predict the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of different spaces. | |
| 84216570 | Map | a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it) | |
| 84216571 | 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. | |
| 84216572 | Distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | |
| 84216573 | Pattern | The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a study area. | |
| 84216574 | Formal Region | An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics. | |
| 84216575 | Functional Region | a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it | |
| 84216576 | Perceptual Region | a region that only exist as a conceptualization or idea & not physically demacated entity | |
| 84216577 | Remote Sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study. | |
| 84216578 | Geographic Information Systems | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user. | |
| 84216579 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. | |
| 84216580 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination. | |
| 84216581 | Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | |
| 84216582 | Acculturation | Cultural modification resulting from inter-cultural borrowing. In cultural geography and anthropology, the term is often used to designate the change that occurs in the culture of a less technologically advanced people when contact is made with a society that is more technologically advanced. | |
| 84216583 | Assimilation | The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. Often used to describe immigrant adaptation to new places of residence. | |
| 84216584 | Transculturation | Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact. | |
| 84216585 | Contagious diffusion | The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person - analogous to the communication of a contagious illness. | |
| 84216586 | Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. | |
| 84216587 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | |
| 84216588 | Independent invention | the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other | |
| 84216589 | Environmental determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development | |
| 84216590 | Possibilism | 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. | |
| 84216591 | Culture | The knowledge, attitudes, & behaviors shared & transmitted by members of a society. Focus on: Learned behavior (not genetic) Patterned (cultures form patterns) Mutual (constant interaction) Arbitrary (invented by man himself) | |
| 84216592 | Cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another | |
| 84216593 | Cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | |
| 84216594 | Culture hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward | |
| 84216595 | Culture trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. | |
| 84216596 | Culture complex | A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. | |
| 84216597 | Culture realm | A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail. | |
| 84216598 | Culture region | an area in which people have many shared culture traits | |
| 84216599 | Culture system | A collection of interacting elements taken together shape a group's collective identity. Includes traits, territorial affiliation, shared history, and more complex elements, like language | |
| 84216600 | Sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 84216601 | Folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | |
| 84216602 | Popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | |
| 84216603 | Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value; occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy. |
