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Vernacular Region

An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity. It comes from people's informal sense of place not a scientific model

Image: Vernacular Region

Functional Region

An area organized around a node or focal point

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people

Cultural Ecology

Geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relatoinships

Environmental Determinism

Theory that the environment determines human action

Image: Environmental Determinism

Theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but humans overcome them

Image: Possibilism

Substance in an environment that is useful to people is economically and technologically feasible to access and is socially acceptable to use

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

Image: Globalization

An arc drawn on a map between the North and South poles

The meridian, designated as 0° longitude that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England

Image: Prime Meridian

The numbering system used to indicate the location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance eat and west of the prime meridian

A circle drawn around the globe parallel to the equator and at right angles to the meridians

Numbering system used to indicate the location of parallels drawn on a globe and measuring distance North and South of the equator

Cultural Landscape

The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

Image: Cultural Landscape

Regional Studies

An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area. Known as contemporary cultural landscape approach

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