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Human Geo. Unit 1
This StudyStack covers Human Geography Unit 1 vocabulary.
| Vocabulary word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute location | Precise location of a place, usually defined by latitude and longitude. |
| Accessibility | Ease of flow between two places. |
| Activity (action) spaces | Places within the rounds of daily activity. |
| Carrying capacity | The idea that land can hold a measurable amount of plant and animal life. |
| Cartography | The art and science of making maps. |
| Connectivity | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network. |
| Context | The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act. |
| Cultural landscape | The visible human imprint on the landscape. |
| Cultural trait | A learned belief, norm, or value passed down through generations in a culture. |
| Culture complex | A group of interrelated cultural traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. |
| Culture | Group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people. |
| Cultural ecology | Study of the historical interaction between humans and environment in a place, including ways humans have modified and adapted to environment. |
| Diffusion | Spread of an idea, innovation, or technology from its hearth to other people and places. See also contagious, expansion, hierarchical, relocation, and stimulus diffusion. |
| Distance | The measured physical space; affects individual human behavior and the spread of people and ideas. |
| Environmental determinism | Set of theories that use environmental differences to explain everything from intelligence to wealth. |
| Expansion diffusion | The spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth across space without the aid of people moving. |
| Epidemic | Widespread, rapid diffusion of disease among a people in a particular location or region at a particular time. |
| Fieldwork | Observations researchers make of physical and cultural landscapes with a focus on seeing similarities and differences. |
| Formal region | Area of land with common cultural or physical traits. |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | A system of computer hardware and software designed to show, analyze, and represent geographic data (data that have locations). |
| Geography | The spatial study of people, place, space, and environment. |
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | Satellite-based system for determining the absolute location of places or geographic features. |
| Globalization | Processes heightening interactions, increasing independence, and deepening relations across country borders. |
| Geographic concepts | Mental categories used to organize and analyze the world spatially. |
| Hearth | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates. |
| Hierarchical diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of an expansion diffusion. |
| Human geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human phenomena, including population, cultures, activities, and landscapes. |
| Human-environment interactions | Reciprocal relationship between humans and environment (one of the five themes of geography). |
| Location | Position on Earth, including both absolute location and relative location (one of the five themes of geography). |
| Location theory | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example. |
| Mental maps | Maps of an area made from memory or experience by individuals or groups (also known as cognitive maps). |
| Movement | Mobility of people, goods, and services across Earth (one of the fives themes of geography). |
| Nodes | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network. |
| Contagious diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on proximity. Specific type of expansion diffusion. |
| Functional region | Area of land defined as sharing a common purpose in society. |
| Pandemic | An outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide. |
| Patterns | Description of the spatial distribution of a human or physical phenomenon (e.g., scattered or concentrated). |
| Perceptions of places | How a place is envisioned. |
| Perceptual/vernacular regions | Area of land that an individual perceives as being similar. |
| Physical geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of physical phenomena, including climate, environmental hazards, weather systems, animals, and topography. |
| Place | Uniqueness of a location (one of the five themes of geography). |
| Possibilism | Theory in geography that humans, not environment, shape culture. |
| Region | Area of Earth identified as sharing a formal, functional, or perceptual commonality that makes it different from regions around it (one of the five themes of geography). |
| Relative location | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute. |
| Rescale | Changing the geographical scope at which a problem is addressed by engaging decision makers and gatekeepers at another scale. |
| Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them. |
| Reference maps | Maps showing absolute location of places and geographic features. |
| Scale | Geographical scope (local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon. |
| Sense of place | Infusing a place with meaning as a result of experiences in a place. |
| Spatial distribution | Physical locations of geographic phenomena, usually shown on a map. |
| Spatial interaction | Degree of connectedness or contact among people or places. |
| Spatial perspective | Looking at where things occur, why they occur where they do, and how places are interconnected. |
| Stimulus diffusion | A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait. |
| Sequent occupance | Imprints left on the cultural landscape by a series of successive societies. Each society contributed to the cumulative cultural landscape. |
| Remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments (e.g., satellites) that are physically distant from the area of study. |
| Terra incognita | Areas on maps that are not well defined because they are off limits or unknown to the map maker. |
| Thematic maps | A map that tells a story, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon using map symbols. |
| Political ecology | An approach to studying human-environment interactions in the context of political, economic, and historical conditions operating at multiple scales. |
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