Geography Flashcards

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Is the scientific study of physical social and culture development and behavior of human beings since their appearance on this earth.

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Anthropology

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Is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.

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Culture

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3
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The transmissions of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.

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Tradition

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4
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The principal method of communication

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Language

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The belief in worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

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Religion

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Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects. Geographers observe that many objects are distributed across space

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Space

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is defined in geography as the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole.

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scale

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refers to relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. Geographers are concerned with the various means which connections occur

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Globalization

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conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principle share-holders are located.

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Transnational copreration

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10
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the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the worlds economics, cultures, and population, brought about by cross-border trade in goods, services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.

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Globalization

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The process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors or Americans society as well as the rest of the world.

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McDonaldization

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is the arrangement of a feature in space

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Distribution

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13
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is the frequency with which something occurs in space

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Density

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14
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is the extent of a features spread over space.

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Concentration

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15
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is the geometric arrangement of objects in space

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Pattern

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16
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The process of taking in and fully understanding information of ideas

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Assimilation

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assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one

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Acculturation

18
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the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, culture, or schools of thought

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Syncretism

19
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is the process by which a feature spreads across space from one place to another overtime

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Diffusion

20
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a place from which an innovation originates

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A Hearth

21
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Is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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is the rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic through out the population

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Contagious diffusion

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is the spread of an underlying principle ven though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

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Stimulus diffusion