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Geo ch.1 part 2

This is Geography

Term	Definition
formal region/uniform region	area within with everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
functional region/nodal region	area organized around a node where the characteristic diminishes in importance away from the node
vernacular region/perceptual region	area that people believe is a part of their cultural identify
cultural landscape	combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation
culture	body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people
culture includes	what people care about and what people take care of
spatial association	the degree to which the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another
globalization	a process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
distribution	arrangement of a feature in space
density	the frequency with which something occurs in space
concentration	the extent of a feature's spread over space
pattern	the geometric arrangement of objects in space
humanistic geography	emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about places and give those places symbolic meanings
behavioral geography	emphasizes importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space
sex	a biological attribute
gender	a social construct that varies from society to society and across time and that can be changed
diffusion	the process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time
hearth	the place from which a feature or innovation originates
relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
expansion diffusion	the spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process
hierarchical diffusion	spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority to other persons or places
contagious diffusion	the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
stimulus diffusion	the spread of an underlying principle even if the characteristic itself fails to diffuse
distance decay	the theory that the farther away someone is from another, the less likely they are to interact
space-time compression	the lessening of a distance decay in the modern world because the connection between places takes much less time
assimilation	process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group's
acculturation	process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups
syncretism	combining of elements of 2 groups into a new cultural form
resource	substance in the environment that is useful to people, economy, and technologically feasible to access and socially acceptable to use
sustainability	use of earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future
ecosystem	group of living organisms and the abiotic spheres with which they interact
ecology	the study of ecosystems
cultural ecology	the study of human-environment relationships
environmental determinism	the physical environment causes social development
possibilism	the environment sets some limits, but people have the ability to adjust

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