Culture
What is the origin place of innovative ideas?
What is a hearth?
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
What is Cultural landscape?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
What is Sequent Occupance ?
A person who specializes in mapmaking
What is a Cartographer?
An area organized around a node
What is a Functional Region.
A specific groups way of life
What is culture ?
Large company whose business and influence is spread across many countries internationally.
What is a Transnational (Multinational) corporation?
When smaller, weaker groups take on the traits of the larger more prominent culture
What is Acculturation?
Phenomenon causing maps to be inaccurate or misrepresent an area, especially prevalent on world and small scale maps?
What is Distortion?
An area people believe to be a part of their culture
What is a Vernacular region?
The term used to describe the spread of cultural ideas from the Core
What is Cultural diffusion?
Process of culture and information spreading worldwide and people becoming more connected across world borders.
What is Globalization?
When an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals.
What is Hierarchial Diffusion?
The scale of a map with a lot of details and more local features
What is A large scale maps.
What is a cultural region?
The three types of Cultural Diffusion
How far someone is willing to travel for a certain product or service.
What is distance decay?
The process of losing ones culture once in contact with another society or culture
What is Assimilation?
Name given to a piece of land based upon geographical feature in the area (I.e. Salt Lake City)
What is a Toponym?
The precise geographic coordinates of a specific point on the Earth's surface
What is absolute location?
What is the Core, Domain, Sphere and Outlier?
An official count of the population that typically records information about age, gender, and race.
What is the US Decennial Census?
A trend that catches on but is changed as it is adopted by different groups
What is Stimulus Diffusion?
Imaginary line on a globe running North to South dividing Earth into an Eastern and Western Hemisphere.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A description of a location based on the surrounding area
Relative Location.