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| 197808087 | Human Geography | One of the two major divisions of Geography; the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | |
| 197808088 | Physical Geography | One of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of Earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography. | |
| 197808089 | Absolute Location | the exact position of an object or place, measured within the spatial coordinates of a grid system | |
| 197808090 | Relative Location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places | |
| 197808091 | Spatial Perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space | |
| 197808092 | Map | a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it) | |
| 197808093 | Mental Map | image or picture of the way space is organized as determined by an individual's perception, impression, and knowledge of that space | |
| 197808094 | Distribution | the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume | |
| 197808095 | Pattern | recurring characteristics or events | |
| 197808096 | Formal Region | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region | |
| 197808097 | Functional Region | a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it | |
| 197808098 | Perceptual Region | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity | |
| 197808099 | Remote Sensing | collecting data through instruments that are distant from the area or object of study | |
| 197808100 | Geographic Information Systems | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, and displayed to the user | |
| 197808101 | Diffusion | the spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element or some other phenomenon | |
| 197808102 | 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 | |
| 197808103 | Relocation Diffusion | sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones. | |
| 197808104 | Acculturation | cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing, Ex. a less technological society comes in contact with a society that is more technologically advanced | |
| 197808105 | Assimilation | the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture | |
| 197808106 | Transculturation | cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact | |
| 197808107 | 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 | |
| 197808108 | Hierarchical Diffusion | a form of diffusion where an idea or innovation spreads by trickling down from larger to smaller adoption units | |
| 197808109 | Stimulus Diffusion | a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place | |
| 197808110 | Independent Invention | development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances | |
| 197808111 | Environmental Determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development | |
| 197808112 | Possibilism | Geographic viewpoint that holds that human descision making is the critical factor in cultural development, not the environment | |
| 197808113 | Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. | |
| 197808114 | Cultural Diffusion | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin across a wider area. | |
| 197808115 | Cultural Landscape | The forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the physical landscape by the activities of various human occupants | |
| 197808116 | Cultural Hearth | Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture | |
| 197808117 | Cultural Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban | |
| 197808118 | Cultural Complex | A related set of cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils | |
| 197808119 | Cultural Realm | a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail | |
| 197808120 | Cultural Region | a region within which common cultural characteristics prevail | |
| 197808121 | Cultural System | a collection of elements that form a groups culture | |
| 197808122 | Sequent Occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 197808123 | Folk Culture | Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities | |
| 197808124 | Popular Culture | Cultural traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced societies | |
| 197808125 | Commodification | the process though which something is given monetary value |
