Core Concepts
The geographical position of people and things on the Earths' surface.
What is Location?
the spread of an idea, innovation, or tech from its hearth to other people and places.
What is Diffusion?
This city is the Primate City of the United Sates.
What is New York City?
The visible imprint of human activity on the land.
What is Cultural Landscape?
The location of a place in relation to what is around it.
What is Relative Location?
The mobility of people, goods and ideas.
What is movement?
The study of spatial and material characteristics of the physical environment.
What is Physical Geography?
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
The idea that human behavior is affected by, or even controlled by, the physical environment.
What is Environmental Determinism?
Diffusion occurring through person-to-person contact.
What is Contagious diffusion.
An area of earth with a degree of similarity that differentiates it from surrounding areas.
What is Region?
The study of how we organize ourselves and our activities in space, how we are connected to one another and the environment, how we make places, how they shape our lives and how we organize ourselves locally and globally.
What is Human Geography?
This body of water separates Africa from Europe and played a significant role throughout the past 2200 years of history.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The bigger picture in which geography and history takes place.
What is context?
The type of diffusion where "knowers" created or adopted something and then is spread from those specific people.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
Uniqueness of location.
What is place?
The combination of time and distance and their impact on diffusion.
What is Time-Distance Decay?
This hearth created the Aztec and Maya civilizations.
What is Mesoamerica?
How people make sense of themselves and how they see themselves at different scales.
What is identity?
The type of diffusion where two cultural traits blend into a distinct trait.
What Stimulus Diffusion?
The area or a place where an idea, innovation or technology originates.
What is a Hearth?
The name for comparing the spatial extent of something: an individual, a family, city, a state, a country etc.
What is scale?
This mountain range contains the tallest peak on planet earth.
What is the Himalayas?
A group of belief systems, norms, and values practices by people.
What is culture?
A distinct combination of cultural traits.
What is culture complex?