Traits
Cuisine and/or dietary restrictions within a culture or religion is this cultural trait.
What are food preferences?
The idea which states that human activity is dependent on the environment in which they reside.
What is environmental determinism?
The imprint of humans superimposing culture traits on the environment/geography.
What is cultural landscape?
The major religion practiced in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and some South East Asian countries; A fast growing universalizing religion.
What is Islam?
Images using aerial photography, drones, satellites without having to be in the physical environment. Useful for natural disaster planning or areas difficult to access.
What is remote sensing?
The jewelry, paintings, music, and literature are part of this character trait.
What are cultural artifacts?
Despite the environment and geography, humans adapt and improvise the landscape to suit their needs.
What is possibilism?
Successive civilization and cultures showing their imprint in a city/environment alongside with other more cultures who have or are residing in that place.
What is sequent Occupancy?
Major religion practiced in North & South America, Western & Northern Europe, South Africa and Australia. Considered to be the largest universalizing religion.
What is Christianity?
Software that captures, stores and analyzes layers of geographic data. Vegetation, physical features, man-made features, etc.
What is Geographic Information System?
Material, form, and symbols of buildings is part of this important cultural trait. Classical Greek & Roman, Gothic, Victorian just to name a few examples.
What is architecture?
The principle that a beliefs, values and other culture should be judged and understood by their standards, not yours.
What is cultural relativism?
All maps which attempt to take a 3-D objects onto a 2-D plane have this. (shape, distance, size, direction)
What are distortions?
Major religion practiced in South Asia (India).
What is Hinduism?
Technology and communication improvements making the illusion the world is smaller, even though distance has not changed. This is the driving force behind contemporary diffusion.
What is time-space compression?
The organization of spiritual beliefs, usually in a single deity, but in some cases multiple gods which encompasses a society's construct of this particular cultural trait.
What is religion?
Wearing a burqa, eating cuy, and thinking that it is weird and passing judgement based on your standards is an example of this theory.
What is ethnocentrism?
A society dominated by males. Men are mostly involved in making laws, economic decisions and dictate social norms.
What is patriarchy?
Religious beliefs of countries such as Nepal,Thailand and western China.
What is Buddhism?
Interaction between places are less frequent as the distance increases is known as this.
What is distance decay?
Theory proposed that geometric population increase with arithmetic food production will lead to crisis.
What is Malthusian theory?
Large geographic area and few to no detail of an area is this size scale.
What is small scale?
The distribution pattern of catholic church in Harlingen downtown area.
What is clustered?