Chapter One History Vocabulary

We are to be tested on these tomorrow in Ms. Moore's class.

82524957	fieldwork	work done in the field
82524958	human geography	focuses on how ppl make places, organize society and space, and how we interact across space
82524959	globalization	Set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships and heightening interdependence w/o regard to country borders
82524960	physical geography	study of physical phenomena on earth
82524961	spatial	aspects including people/places/ climates etc.
82524962	spatial distribution	how spatial's are arranged and organized on earth
82524963	pattern	relationships between different places and things
82524964	medical geography	mapping of a disease
82524965	pandemic	worldwide outbreak of a disease
82524966	epidemic	regional outbreak of a disease
82524967	spatial perspective	Understanding change across space/used to study a multitude of phenomena
82524968	five themes	derived from spatial perspective
82524969	location	geographic position of things on Earth
82524970	location theory	element of contemporary Human Geo to answer questions like: why are towns where they are?
82524971	human-environment	relationship between humans and their environment
82524972	region	Phenomena not evenly distributed but concentrated in particular areas
82524973	place	human and physical char. True to ONE specific place
82524974	sense of place	infusing a place with meaning and emotion
82524975	perception of place	the feeling a person connects with a place they haven't been to, based on what they've heard or read about the place
82524976	movement	mobility of people/goods/ideas across earth
82524977	spatial interaction	interactions of people, places, and climates
82524978	distance	space between places
82524979	accessibility	how easy it is to get across earth
82524980	connectivity	how well communication is between places
82524981	landscape	material character of a place
82524982	sequent occupance	cultural secession & lasting imprint
82524983	cartography	map making
82524984	reference maps	show locations of places/geog. features
82524985	thematic maps	tell stories involving movement across earth
82524986	absolute location	exact location on Earth: uses Lat. & Long.
82524987	global positioning system	satellites that determine position on earth
82524988	geocaching	a hunt for a cache found using GPS
82524989	relative location	describes a place in relation to other human/physical features
82524990	mental map	maps recalled in the mind
82524991	activity space	places traveled routinely: places that you are familiar with
82524992	generalized map	maps that have info generalized, as they can't be pinpoint accurate
82524993	remote sensing	monitoring the earth's surface from a distance
82524994	geographic information systems	technology used to compare layers of spatial data
82524995	rescale	to reduce or increase proportionally, as with a map
82524996	formal region	regions marked by a visible uniformity
82524997	functional region	marked by movement/interactions of various kinds
82524998	perceptual region	constructs to understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography
82524999	culture	ways of life of a society including music/art/food
82525000	culture trait	a single attribute of a culture
82525001	culture complex	combinations of traits in a culture
82525002	cultural hearth	area where cultural traits develop
82525003	independent invention	trait with many hearths that developed independent of each other
82525004	cultural diffusion	spread of culture from hearth
82525005	time-distance decay	acceptance of idea/innovation is less likely to be adopted the farther in distance or time from its hearth
82525006	cultural barrier	occurs when certain ideas/innovations are specifically against another culture
82525007	expansion diffusion	idea/innovation spreads and remains strong in hearth and spreads outward
82525008	contagious diffusion	expansion where ALL adjacent individuals are affected
82525009	hierarchical diffusion	pattern where one main channel of diffusion is a segment of those susceptible
82525010	stimulus diffusion	although ideal is spread too different or vague, it still makes an impact
82525011	relocation diffusion	actual move of people from Hearth who carry the culture/ideal/innovation
82525012	geographic concept	^ All the vocab stuff: individual concepts of geography
82525013	environmental determinism	human behavior is strongly affected by their physical environment
82525014	isotherm	lines connecting points of equal temperatures
82525015	possibilism	choices that a society makes depend on member requirements and available technology
82525016	cultural ecology	area studied with concern of culture in area
82525017	political ecology	area of inquiry concerned with its political ideals