Geography Flashcards
Is the scientific study of physical social and culture development and behavior of human beings since their appearance on this earth.
Anthropology
Is the body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Culture
The transmissions of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.
Tradition
The principal method of communication
Language
The belief in worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Religion
Refers to the physical gap or interval between two objects. Geographers observe that many objects are distributed across space
Space
is defined in geography as the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole.
scale
refers to relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space. Geographers are concerned with the various means which connections occur
Globalization
conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters and principle share-holders are located.
Transnational copreration
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.
Globalization
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.
McDonaldization
is the arrangement of a feature in space
Distribution
is the frequency with which something occurs in space
Density
is the extent of a features spread over space.
Concentration
is the geometric arrangement of objects in space
Pattern