Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards
A place from which an innovation originates
Hearth
The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance Decay
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
Vernacular Region
The Relationship between the distribution of one feature and the distribution of another feature.
Spatial Association
The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
Syncretism
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide
Globalization
A substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use.
Resource
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Contagious Diffusion
The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble another group.
Assimilation
The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains district cultural features.
Acculturation
An area organized around a node or focal point
Functional Region
Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes, such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude
Absolute Location
The name given to a portion of Earth’s Surface
Toponym
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Relocation Diffusion
An 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.
Environmental Determinism
