M.C.I /Unit 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 human geography | One of the two major divisions of geography; the spatial analysis of human population, their cultures, activities, and landscapes. |
| physical geography | The spatial analysis of the sturcture of the earth and its features; plants, animals, climate..... |
| environmental geography | the intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa |
| spatial | relating to space |
| patterns | a particular arrangement |
| distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence |
| spatial perspective | they way geographers look at everything-- in relation to space |
| location | The position of anything on Earth's surface. |
| location theory | A logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated. |
| human environment interactions | The interactions between human society and its environment. |
| region | An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features. |
| regional science | disipline that emphasizes the application of modern spatial analytical techniques to the delimitation of regions & the analysis of regional problems & issues. |
| place | put into a certain place or abstract location |
| movement | a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something |
| landscape | painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery |
| maps | are drawings that show the earth or part of the earth on a flat surface |
| absolute location | a specific description of where a place is |
| relative location | the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places |
| 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. |
| remote sensing | A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study. |
| diffusion | the spread of ideas from one culture to another |
| area | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) |
| boundaries | Emotional barriers that protect the autonomy and functioning of individuals and subsystems |
| formal regions | A type of region marked by a certain degree of homogeneity in one or more phenomena. |
| functional region | a region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it |
| perceptual regions | regions that reflect human feelings and attitudes |
| hierarchy | the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body |
| mental map | An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface based on what an individual knows about a place, containing personal impressions of what is in a place and where places are located. |
| environmental perception | The concept that people of different cultures will differently observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature, potentialities and use. |
| acculturation | When people try to come and fit in |
| assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another |
| civilization | the ways of living of a people or nation |
| contagious diffusion | Nearly all adjacent individuals are affected |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another |
| cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
| culture | The knowledge,attitudes,and behaviors shared and transmitted by members of a society |
| culture complex | Two cultures display the same trait but use it differently |
| culture hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| culture realm | A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail |
| culture region | You only have one culture in a certain place |
| culture system | it includes everything! |
| culture trait | a single attribute of a culture |
| environmental determinism | human behavior is strongly controlled by the environment |
| expansion diffusion | the idea or innovation develops in a core area and remains strong there while spreading outward |
| geographic realm | The basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme. |
| geographic region | used when describing regions with similar cultural, locational and environmental circumstances. |
| hierarchical diffusion | becomes like a "leap frog" effect(some adopt what is being diffused;starts @ tops). |
| independent invention | development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances |
| migrant diffusion | spread of an idea through people, in which the phenomena weakens or dies out at its previous source ... moves like a "Slinky" (e.g., spread of the Spanish Flu toward the end of World War I). |
| political ecology | An approach to studying nature - society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated. |
| possibilism | humans are the decision makers and modifiers,not environmental forces |
| relocation diffusion | when a persom leaves and brings there culture with them |
| sequent occupance | The notion that succesive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. |
| stimulus diffusion | not everybody expects the idea but may result in local experimentation |
| transculturation | cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact |
| commodification | something that wasnt meant to be sold but then later turned into something that can be traded in the market |
| folk culture | cultures that have maintained their traditions,often isolated,slow to change |
| global-local continuum | whatever happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local sclae |
| hybridity | the product of different kinds of cultures mixing |
| popular culture | non traditional industrialized cultures constantly changing |
| postmodern | reflect and shape the culture of places in ways that can work against local distinctiveness |
| syncretism | different cultural sources are combined in novel ways to make something new |
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