Chapter 1 Flashcards
Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude
Absolute location
The process of changes and culture their results from the meeting of two groups each of which retains distinct cultural features
Acculturation
The prices by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group
Assimilation
All living organisms on earth including plants and animals as well as micro organisms
Biosphere
Composed of living organisms
Biotic
The science of making maps
Cartography
The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature a trend throughout a population
Contagious diffusion
A geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationships
Cultural ecology
And approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
Cultural landscape
The body of customary beliefs material traits and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
Culture
The frequency with which some thing exists within a given unit of area
Density
Diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance decay
19 century and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argue that the generalize sad by human geography could be found in physical sciences geography was there for a study of how the physical environment cause human activities
Environmental determinism
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process
Expansion diffusion
An area in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics
Formal region
An area organized around a note or a focal point
Functional region
Actions or processes that involve the entire world end result in making something worldwide in scope
Globalization
A place from which and innovation originate
Hearth
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
Hierarchal diffusion
The numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawing on the globe and measuring the distance north and south of the equator
Latitude
The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a Garmin measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian
Longitude
A resource that is produced in nature more slowly than is consumed by humans
Nonrenewable resource
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 many alternatives
Possiblism
 The spread of a feature a trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
A resource that is produced by nature more rapidly than it is consumed by humans
Renewable resource
The relationship between the portion of earth been studied and earth as a whole
Scale
The physical character of a place
Site
The location of a place relative to another place
Situation Or relative location
The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to eat used in place as a result of improved communication and transportation systems
Space-time compression
The spread of an underlying principle
Stimulus diffusion
Do use of earths renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways I do not constrain resource use in the future
Sustainability
An area that people believe exist as part of their cultural identity
Vernacular region
