ap vocab Flashcards

10560497026	contagious diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.	0
10560499892	cultural ecology	the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments	1
10560508135	cultural landscape	cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and of man	2
10560511479	diffusion	The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time	3
10560519620	ecology	the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.	4
10560525267	enviromental determinism	the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories.	5
10560527072	Expansion Determinism	study of how the physical environment predisposes societies and states towards particular development trajectories.	6
10560557711	Expansion Diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.	7
10560563252	formal region	government or other structures, such as cities, states, and mountain ranges	8
10560569959	Functional Region	a central place and the surrounding territory linked to it	9
10560571785	Global Positioning System (GPS)	Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features.	10
10560574953	hearth	point of origin	11
10560579658	hierachical diffusion	The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places	12
10560581556	housing bubble	a rapid increase in the value of houses followed by a sharp decline in their value	13
10560584701	International Date Line	the line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th meridian	14
10560591280	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.	15
10560594085	relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another	16
10560599203	space-time compression	The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems	17
10560621815	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	18
10560628157	Transnational Corporation	A firm that conducts business in at least two separate countries; also known as multinational corporations.	19
10560631891	vernacular region	an area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity	20
10560638441	biosphere	part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere	21
10560647306	concentration	geographic location of a specific cluster or clense group	22