Module 3 Flashcards
Relative Location?
Position of one place in relation to the position of another space
Space?
The areas that we occupy as humans; it has no value until humans make it their own.
Cultural Landscape?
Forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting Earth–farms cities, houses, etc. meanings values and representations associate with those forms.
Expansion Diffusion?
Occurs when the ideas or practices spread through populations, from area to area, in a snowballing process so that the total number of knowers, users, and areas of occurrence increase.
Time-space Compression?
The decreasing distance between places, as measured by travel time; referred to as “the world is shrinking.” Things like transportation are able to create this illusion.
Interdependence?
When countries or areas that rely on one another are able to create a global economic system
Geographic Process?
Physical and human forces that work together to form and transform the world
Diffusion?
Pattern by which a phenomena such as the movement of people, or their ideas, technologies or preferences, spread from a particular location through space and time.
Independent invention?
Occurs when the same or a very similar inventions are developed at the same time in different places, by different people working independently.
Hierarchical diffusion?
Occurs when the ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas.
Reverse Hierarchical?
Lower levels go to higher levels instead (like hierarchical diffusion)
Contagious Diffusion?
A wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of contagious disease or fossil fire, moving through space and time with regard of hierarchy.
Relocation Diffusion?
Occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, there by bringing the idea or practice to their homeland.
Stimulus Diffusion?
Occurs when the specific trait is rejected but the underlying idea is accepted.
