Unit 1.3&1.4

Question 1

Acculturation

Answer 1

The process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups, each of which retains distinct cultural features.

Question 2

Assimilation

Answer 2

The process by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group.

Question 3

Concentration

Answer 3

The extent of a feature’s spread over a given area.

Question 4

Conservation

Answer 4

The sustainable management of a natural resource to meet human needs.

Question 5

Contagious diffusion

Answer 5

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Question 6

Coordinated Universal Time

Answer 6

Informally Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian, or 0° longitude.

Question 7

Cultural ecology

Answer 7

A geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships.

Question 8

Density

Answer 8

The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area.

Question 9

Diffusion

Answer 9

The process by which a feature spreads from one place to another over time.

Question 10

Distance decay

Answer 10

The diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

Question 11

Distribution

Answer 11

The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface.

Question 12

Environmental determinism

Answer 12

A nineteenth and early twentieth-century 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.

Question 13

Expansion diffusion

Answer 13

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.

Question 14

Globalization

Answer 14

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

Question 15

Hearth

Answer 15

A place from which an innovation originates.

Question 16

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 16

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

Question 17

Humanistic geography

Answer 17

An approach to human geography that emphasizes the different ways that individuals form ideas about place and give those places symbolic meanings.

Question 18

Hydrosphere

Answer 18

All of the water on and near Earth’s surface.

Question 19

International Date Line

Answer 19

An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude. When the International Date Line is crossed heading east (toward America}, the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When it is crossed heading west (toward Asia}, the calendar moves ahead one day.

Question 20

Lithosphere

Answer 20

Earth’s crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust.

Question 21

Meme

Answer 21

Contagious diffusion through the Internet or social media.

Question 22

Polder

Answer 22

Land that the Dutch have created by draining water from an area.

Question 23

Possibilism

Answer 23

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

Question 24

Poststructuratist geography

Answer 24

Geographic approach that examines how the powerful in a society dominate, or seek to control, less powerful groups, how the dominated groups occupy space, and confrontations that result from the domination.

Question 25

Relocation diffusion

Answer 25

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.

Question 26

Space- time compression

Answer 26

The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place as a result of improved communications and transportation systems.

Question 27

Stimulus diffusion

Answer 27

The spread of an underlying principle

Question 28

Sustainability

Answer 28

The use of Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future.

Question 29

Syncretism

Answer 29

The combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature.

Question 30

Transnational corporation

Answer 30

A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located.

Question 31

Uneven development

Answer 31

The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy.