Chapter 1: Human Geography Flashcards
The space within which people move freely on their rounds of regular activity
Activity space
The relative ease with which a destination may be reached from some other place
Accessibility
The degree of economic, social, cultural, or political connection between two places
Connectivity
The spread of a disease, an innovation, or cultural rains through direct contact with another person or another place
Contagious diffusion
The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels
Cultural determinism
Also called nature-society geography, the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments in which they live
Cultural ecology
The human modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society
Cultural landscape
Spreading of something widely
Diffusion
The view that the physical environment sets limits on human social development
Environmental determinism
A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time
Epidemic
The spread of ideas, innovations, fashion, or other phenomena to surrounding areas through contact and exchange
Expansion diffusion
Definition of regions based on common themes such as similarities in language, climate, land use, etc.
Formal region
Definition of regions based on common interaction (or function), for example, a boundary line drawn around the circulation of a particular newspaper
Functional region
A set of computer tools used to capture, store, transform, analyze, and display geographic data
Geographic Information System (GIS)
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact
This process transcends state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and states
Globalization
A type of diffusion in which something is transmitted between places because of a physical or cultural community between those places
Hierarchical diffusion
Branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures
Morphology
(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world
Pandemic
A repeated design
Pattern
The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions
Possibilism
The position of a place relative to the places around it
Relative location
The diffusion of ideas, innovations, behaviors, and so on from one place to another through migration
Relocation diffusion
The succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site
Sequence occupation
The absolute location of a place, described by local relief, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics
Site
The relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system; a places spatial context
Situation
A continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied
Space
The arrangement of a phenomenon across the Earth’s surface and a graphical display of such an arrangement is an important tool in geographical amd environmental statistics
Spatial distribution
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Stimulus diffusion
An area defined by local, ordinary folks subjective perceptions reflecting their feelings and images about key place characteristics
Vernacular region
