Chapter 1 Flashcards
Description of the position of a place in a way that never changes such as geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude
Absolute location
The process of changes and culture their results from the meeting of two groups each of which retains distinct cultural features
Acculturation
The prices by which a group’s cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group
Assimilation
All living organisms on earth including plants and animals as well as micro organisms
Biosphere
Composed of living organisms
Biotic
The science of making maps
Cartography
The rapid widespread diffusion of a feature a trend throughout a population
Contagious diffusion
A geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationships
Cultural ecology
And approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area
Cultural landscape
The body of customary beliefs material traits and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
Culture
The frequency with which some thing exists within a given unit of area
Density
Diminished importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance decay
19 century and early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argue that the generalize sad by human geography could be found in physical sciences geography was there for a study of how the physical environment cause human activities
Environmental determinism
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process
Expansion diffusion
An area in which most people share in one or more distinctive characteristics
Formal region
