Chapter 1 Vocabulary Key Issues 3-4

Question 1

Actions or processes that involve the
entire world and result in making
something worldwide in scope.

Answer 1

Globalization

Question 2

A company that conducts research,
operates factories, and sells products in
many countries, not just where its
headquarters or shareholders are
located.

Answer 2

Transnational
Corporation

Question 3

The arrangement of something across
Earth’s surface

Answer 3

Distribution

Question 4

The frequency with which something
exists within a given unit of area.

Answer 4

Density

Question 5

The spread of something over a given
area.

Answer 5

Concentration

Question 6

Relationships among people and objects
across the barrier of space.

Answer 6

Connections

Question 7

The geometric or regular arrangement of
something in a study area.

Answer 7

Pattern

Question 8

The process of spread of a feature or
trend from one place to another over
time.

Answer 8

Diffusion

Question 9

The region from which innovative ideas
originate.

Answer 9

Hearth

Question 10

The spread of a feature or trend through
bodily movement of people from one
place to another.

Answer 10

Relocation
Diffusion

Question 11

The spread of a feature or trend among
people from one area to another in a
snowballing process.

Answer 11

Expansion
Diffusion

Question 12

The spread of a feature or trend from
one key person or node of authority or
power to other persons or places

Answer 12

Hierarchical
Diffusion

Question 13

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a
feature or trend throughout a
population.

Answer 13

Contagious
Diffusion

Question 14

The spread of an underlying principle,
even though a specific characteristic is
rejected.

Answer 14

Stimulus Diffusion

Question 15

The diminishing in importance and
eventual disappearance of a
phenomenon with increasing distance
from its origin.

Answer 15

Distance Decay

Question 16

The reduction in the time it takes to
diffuse something to a distant place as a
result of improved communications and
transportation systems

Answer 16

Space time
Compression

Question 17

A nineteenth and early twentieth
century approach to the study of
geography which argued that the general
laws sought by human geographers could
be found in the physical sciences.
Geography was therefore the study of
how the physical environment caused
human activities.

Answer 17

Environmental
Determinism

Question 18

The theory that the physical
environment may set limits on human
actions, but people have the ability to
adjust to the physical environment and
choose a course of action from many
alternatives.

Answer 18

Possibilism