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Ch 1
1st quiz words
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Geographic approach that emphasizes human- environment relations. | Cultural ecology |
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. | Cultural landscape |
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition. | Culture |
The process of spreading a feature or trend from one place to another. | Diffusion |
A 19/20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography became the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. | Environmental determinism |
a company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its head-quarters or shareholders are located. | Transnational corporation |
The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust the physical environment and choose a course of action from alternatives. | possibilism |
the increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy. | uneven development |