Unit 1 Vocab Pt 2

Question 1

art and science of making maps with data compilations, layouts, and designs

Answer 1

Cartography

Question 2

distance controlled spreading of ideas, innovations, etc. by person to person contact

Answer 2

contagious diffusion

Question 3

a related set of cultural traits such as dress codes and eating utensils

Answer 3

cultural complex

Question 4

cultural attitude towards innovation, ideas, or practices unadoptable in that culture

Answer 4

cultural barrier

Question 5

expansion or adoption of a cultural element

Answer 5

cultural diffusion

Question 6

place of origin of major culture, also known as heartland, source area and innovation center

Answer 6

cultural hearth

Question 7

sum of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of society (as per Ralph Linton’s definition)

Answer 7

culture

Question 8

single element of normal practice in culture

Answer 8

culture trait

Question 9

natural environment has controlling influence over human life such as culture

Answer 9

environmental determinism

Question 10

spread of an innovation or idea through a population as the number of those influenced grows continuously larger

Answer 10

expansion diffusion

Question 11

a hunt for cache, the GPS coordinates placed on the internet by geocachers

Answer 11

geocaching

Question 12

collection of computer hardware and software for spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to users

Answer 12

geographic information systems (GIS)

Question 13

satellite based system used to get absolute locations of places or features

Answer 13

global positioning system (GPS)

Question 14

form of diffusion where ideas or innovations spread by passing the most connected places or people first when geographic distance is not an important influence

Answer 14

Hierarchical Diffusion

Question 15

human decision (not environments) is most important in cultural development, however environments still limits human choices

Answer 15

possibilism

Question 16

sequential diffusion where items are distributed by other people that relocate

Answer 16

relocation diffusion

Question 17

collecting data through instruments distanced from area or object or study

Answer 17

remote sensing

Question 18

pertaining to space on earth’s surface which is also known as geographical

Answer 18

spatial

Question 19

physical location of geographic phenomena

Answer 19

spatial distribution

Question 20

an exchange or movement of materials, ideas, or people between 2 regions that may satisfy needs or diminish attractiveness from other places

Answer 20

spatial interaction

Question 21

observation of geographical phenomena

Answer 21

spatial perspective

Question 22

cultural adaptation from a cultural trait somewhere else

Answer 22

stimulus diffusion

Question 23

declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation as time and distance increases from origin

Answer 23

time-distance decay