AP human geography vocab for section 1.3
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| globalization | a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something world-wide in scope
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| Transnational corporation | conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where it is located
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| Distribution | the arrangement of a feature in space
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| Density | the frequency with which something occurs in space
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| Concentration | the extent of a features spread across space
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| Pattern | the geometric arrangement of objects in space
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| Poststructuralist geography- | examines how the powerful in a society dominate, or seek to control, less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupy space, and confrontations that result from the domination
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| Humanistic geography | emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings
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| Behavioral Geography | emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological basis for individual human actions in space
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| Uneven Development | the increasing gap in economic and conditions between regions in the core and periphery
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| Diffusion | the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another over time
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| Hearth | a place from which innovation originates
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| Relocation diffusion | the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
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| Expansion diffusion | the spread of an idea from one place to another
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| Hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
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| Contagious diffusion | rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
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| Stimulus diffusion | the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
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| Distance decay | contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears
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| space-time compression | geographers use this term to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place
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| network | a chain of communication that connects places, example could be a social media site
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| assimilation | the process of which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group
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| acculturation | the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups
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| syncretism | the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
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