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7444308787Language, religion, and ethnicityEspecially important cultural values derive from a groups ________ _________ ___________. These three cultural traits are exellent ways of identifying the location of a culture and the principle means by which cultural values become distrjbuted around the world0
7444308788Attitudes, belief, and practicesReligion is an important cultural value because it is the principle system of ________ _________ _________ through which people worship in a formal and organized way1
7444308789More developed economically, less developed economicallyGeographers divide the the world into regions that are _________________ and _________________2
7444308790Environmental, cultural, unique, cultural ecologyIn constructing regions, geographers consider _________ factors as well as _______ ones. Distinctive to geography is the importance given to relashonship between culture and natural envirmemt. Different cultural groups modify the natural environment in distinctive ways to produce _________ regions. The geographic study of human environment relashonships is known as ________ _________3
7444308791Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter, environmental determinism_______and _______ argued that human actions were scientifically caused by environmental conditions. This aproach is called _________ _________4
7448692304Ellsworth Huntington, temperature climate, healthier and wealthier_________ an environmental determinist, argued that because of its more ______________ , Northweastern Europe had ________ and ________ residents than Southern Europe5
7448692305A fraction or ratio, A written statement, or a graphic bar scaleMap scale is presented in 3 ways _______ _________ ________6
7448692306GlobalizationScale is an increasingly important concept in because of ____________ which is a force or process that might involve the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope7
7448692307ShrinkingDue to globalization the scales of the world is8
7448692308Level of skills for the people, prevailing wage rates,attitudes towoards unionsTransactional corporation decide where to produce things in response to the characteristics of the local labor force, these things include9
7448692309Physical, cultural, language, traditions_______ or ________ can retard interaction among groups . cultural include _________ and ________10
7448692310HearthThis emerges when a cultural group is willing to try something new and is able to allocate recourses to nurture the innovation11
7448692311North America, Western Europe, JapanThe global culture and economy is increasingly centering on 3 core hearth regions12
7448692312NodeFunctional region area organized around a what or focal point13
7448692313uneven developmentis the increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy14
7448692314Relocation diffusionThe spread of an idea in the physical movement of people from one place to another is called15
7448692315Hearthemerges when a cultural group is willing to try something new16
7448692316Cultural ecologyis the study of human environment relashonships17
7448692317Possiblismstates that the physical environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to adjust to the environment18
7448692318Diffusionis the process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another19
7448692319Poldersare areas of land that have been created by draining water and pumping it back into the sea20
7448692320Distance decayContact between the group diminishes between increasing distance and eventually disappears this trailing off is called21
7448692321Globalizationis a force that results in a making something worldwide scope22
7448692322Space time compressionit's the term used to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach in a seperate place23
7448692323inovation, spatial diffusion, acculturationChange within a culture is induseced by the following 3 factors24
7448692324In society's at equilibrium with their environment with no one that needs change as no reason to occur25
7448692325Cultural lagWhen a group is unresponsive to innovation or changes circumstances, we say that it exhibits26
7455334737Manufacturing products or by performing services in exchange for wagesin most developed countries, the residents make their living through27
7455334738Expansion diffusionThe spread of a culture in a snowballing process28
7455334739Language and traditionCultural barriers include29
7455334740Stimulus hierarchal and contagiousExpansion djffisuom might result in one of tense diffusions30
7455334741CultureTraditions of groups of people is31

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