| Term | Definition |
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| Human Geography | Concentrates on patterns of human activity and on their relationships with the environment. |
| Physical Geography | The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks,oceans,weather,and global flora and fauna patterns. |
| Absolute Location | Absolute location is the exact area where something or someone is on the earth. an example would be the longitude and latitude of a place. |
| Relative Location | The location of a point expressed in the relationships to the location of other points or in relation to geographic reference system, such as the USPLS |
| Spatial Perspective | The techniques of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface. |
| Map | A visual representation of and area. |
| Mental Map | Mental directions that help you navigate your world |
| Distribution | The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range,area,or volume |
| Pattern | A repetitive design |
| Formal Region | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region |
| Functional Region | A region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.. |
| Perceptual Region | A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not a physically demarcated entity |
| Remote Sensing | A method of collection data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study |
| Geographic Information Systems | A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected,recorded,stored,retrieved,manipulated,analyzed,and displayed to the user. |
| Diffusion | the act of dispersing or diffusing something |
| Expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
| Relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| Acculturation | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture |
| Assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another |
| Transculturation | cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact |
| Contagious diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Hierarchical diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places |
| Stimulus diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. |
| Independent invention | the term for a trait with many cultural hearths that developed independent of each other |
| Environmental determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development |
| Possibilism | 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. |
| Culture | the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization |
| Cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another |
| Cultural landscape | a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture |
| Culture hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| Culture trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. |
| Culture complex | a combination of various culture traits. |
| Culture realm | A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail. |
| Culture region | A formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail. |
| Culture system | Cultural complexes have traits in common such as ethnicity, language, religion and others |
| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| Commodification | the process though which something is given monetary value |
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