AP Flashcards

4870039430	Contagious diffusion	Rapid, widespread through population.	0
4870046746	cultural ecology	human-environmental relationship.	1
4870049673	cultural landscape	fashioning of natural landscape.	2
4870057305	culture	custom beliefs, social reforms, and material traits that create distinct tradition.	3
4870063673	diffusion	process of spread of a feature or trend.	4
4870120303	distance decay	increasing distance from its origin.	5
4870129815	environmental determinism	study of geography in 19th and early 20th century. general laws are found in physical science. physical science caused human activities.	6
4870143136	expansion diffusion	amongst people in snowballing process	7
4870150697	formal regions	region where everyone share 1 or more characteristics	8
4870154255	functional region	area organized around node or focal point	9
4870158483	globalization	actions or process that involve the whole world. makes worldwide into scope	10
4870162610	hearth	region where innovative ideas originate	11
4870165203	hierarchical diffusion	from one key person or node of authority	12
4870178877	land of ordinance of 1785	divided to townships to facilitate sale of land	13
4870186545	place	specific point on earth	14
4870188375	possibilism	theory that physical environment can set limits on human actions. people can adjust to physical environment	15
4870195061	region	area distinguished by unique combination	16
4870198909	regional studies	relationships among social and physical phenomena	17
4870216255	relocation diffusion	through bodily movement	18
4870218994	remote sensing	acquisition of data of earths surface from satellite on space	19
4870225925	site	physical and cultural characteristics of a place	20
4870228183	situation	location to place relative to another place	21
4870231833	space time compression	reduction in time taken to diffuse something a distant place. improve communications and transportation	22
4870239672	stimulus diffusion	through underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected	23
4870244300	toponym	name of portion of earths surface	24
4870250233	transnational corporation	company conducts research, operate factories and sells products in many countries	25
4870253933	vernacular region	area that people exists as part of cultural identity	26