Unit one vocab
When Geographers go somewhere to see what people are doing
Fieldwork
highlights how the geographical position of people and things on Earth's surface affects what happens and why
Location
When ideas of people or goods move across space the process of disseminations is called ___________
Cultural Diffusion
Is an all encompassing term that identifies the values, lifestyles and the beliefs of people
Culture
Choice made by a society depends on the members needs and the technology available
Possibilism
___________Focuses on how people make places and organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions and the world
Human Geography
The mobility of people and goods across the surface of the planet
Movement
The acceptance of an innovation becomes less likely the longer it takes to reach its potential adopters
Time- Distance Decay
A single attribute of a particular culture
Cultural Trait
Ex: Wearing a turban or a cross
The design of a spatial distribution Ex: patterned of concentrated
Pattern
Is a set of processes that are increasing interactions deepening relationships and accelerating interdependence across national borders
Globalization
Relationship between humans and the physical world
Human environment and interaction
A cultural trait like religion moving to another place does so from a hearth, this is called?
Expansion Diffusion
An area where a cultural trait develops and then diffuses is know as a ______________
Cultural Hearth
Name 3 types of Land Use
Agricultural, Industrial, Residential, Transformational and Recreational
Geographers use the term __________ to refer to the material character of a place including the natural features , human structures and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form
Landscape
All _____________ on the Earth have unique human and physical characteristics
Place
Name 2 types of renewable resources
Food Crops and Trees
Why type of scale would be looking at the number of schools needed in Federal Way, WA.
Local
This Idea established by the Greeks talks about too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry
Environmental Determinism
An are on the Earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional or perceptual homogeneity of of some phenomenon
Region
Name 2 Types of Non Renewable Resources
Fossil fuels, Coal, and Natural Gas
What type of scale would talk about how much money is needed for the United States Department of War?
National