Geography Concepts
A type of border that no longer exists but you can still see evidence of it existing.
What is a Relic Boundary?
Related languages that share a common ancestral language.
What is a language family?
People in the world interact more through this process.
What is globalization?
Process by which a cultural trait spreads.
What is diffusion?
Traits diffuse through direct contact.
What is contagious diffusion?
Established before many people settled in an area.
What is an ethnic religion?
Person who created the map that was useful for navigation.
Who is Mercator?
Where an idea started.
What is a cultural hearth.
Exerting power over another territory.
What is Imperialism?
Physical landscape that you can see modified by humans reflecting cultural beliefs and values.
What is a cultural landscape?
A religion that attempts to appeal to a wide variety of people open to everyone.
What are universalizing religions?
The person who created the most accurate map with the least distortion.
Who is Robinson?
Adopts all cultural customs from a new place and leaves behind old cultural things.
What is assimilation?
This type of government has power located in the central or national government.
What is a Unitary State.
Drawing boundaries on a map in accordance with a legal decision.
What is delimiting?
Collection of languages within a family.
What is Language Branch
Person who created the map that shows landmass with true area but distorts the shape of places.
Who is Peter?
Diverse cultures coexist within a shared space.
What is multiculturalism?
Map that uses colors to represent data.
What is a a choropleth map?
Map that emphasizes spatial patterns.
What is a thematic map?
Oversimplified non-specific, non native language used by two people.
What is a pidgin language?
Developed regions taking advantage of others.
What is Wallersteins World System Theory
A trait is taken into a new place and altered to fit more with the people residing in the area traits take a different form all over the world.
What is Stimulus diffusion?
Communities of people with shared ethnicity outside their area of origin.