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APHG Vocab 1
Term | Definition |
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Pandemic | When a disease is prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area. |
Place | Where something is and what it means. |
Hearth | where and idea originates |
Sequent Occupance | How people migrate after each other |
Cartography | Map making |
Formal Region | Areas in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area |
Perceptual region | Area defined by people’s feelings and attitudes |
Culture | the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group |
Stimulus diffusion | when an idea is integrated or transmitted from one culture to another |
Contagious diffusion | a cultural trait spreading across a population like a disease |
Hierarchacal diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
Culture trait | any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication. |
Culture complex | a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait |
Cultural barrier | barriers brought about by cultural differences |