Human Geo Unit 1 Vocab
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htreasure16 on October 25, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 contagious diffusion | distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, ect in a local population by person to person contact |
| cultural hearth | heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture |
| diffusion | spatial spreading or dissemination of a cultural element (like a technological innovation) or some other phenomenon |
| Environmental Determinism | view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over aspects of human life, including cultural development. (aka environmentalism) |
| Expansion Diffusion | diffusion of an idea so that it grows larger throughout the population as larger and larger amounts of people spread the idea |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS | collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, analyzed, ect |
| globalization | expansion of economic, political, or cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact |
| global positioning system (gps) | satellite based system to determine the absolute location |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | form of diffusion in which the idea spreads first through the most connected group of people or places |
| human geography | one of two major divisions of geography, the spatial analysis of human population, cultures, activities, and landscapes |
| nodal region | A region characterized by a set of places connected to another place by lines of communication or movement |
| pattern | design of spatial distribution (concentrated or spread out) |
| perceptual region | region that only exists as an idea but not physically demarcated. ex: in US, the South region and Mid-Atlantic region |
| possibilism | geographic view point as a response to determinism, that says human decision making (not environment) determines the cultural development. but, environment still seen as having the ability to inhibit human decisions and possibilities |
| regional geography | Regional geography is a study of regions throughout the world in order to understand or define the unique characteristics of a particular region |
| relocation diffusion | sequential diffusion as the ideas follow the carriers, usually migrating populations |
| spatial analysis | analysis pertaining to the space used on earth's surface |
| spatial diffusion | physical location of phenomena across space |
| spatial interaction | regions exchanging |
| spatial perspective | observations varying depending on spatial geo across earth |
| stimulus diffusion | cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |
| symbolic landscapes | place of cultural / geographical meaning |
| time-space compression | term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects reach high of time-space convergence (greatly accelerated movements of goods, info, and ideas made possible by 20th century tech innovations in transportation and communication) |
| tobler's first law of geography | Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things |
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