Concepts
The study of the spatial distribution of human activities and how people interact with their environment.
What is human geography?
A map that shows the locations and boundaries of countries, states, cities, or other political areas.
What is a political map?
The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and material objects of a group of people.
What is culture?
The spread of ideas, cultural traits, technology, or diseases from one place to another.
What is diffusion?
A system of communication using words, symbols, and sounds shared by a group of people.
What is language?
The location of a place described using latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
A map that uses shading or colors to show a particular variable across geographic areas.
What is a choropleth map?
A group of people who share common cultural characteristics.
What is a cultural group?
The spread of a cultural trait through direct contact between people from one place to another.
What is relocation diffusion?
A collection of languages that share a common but distant ancestor.
What is a language family?
The location of a place described in relation to other places.
What is relative location?
The arrangement of something across Earth's surface, such as clustered, dispersed, or linear.
What is a spatial pattern?
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, often rural and relatively isolated group of people.
What is folk culture?
The spread of an idea or cultural trait while the original idea remains strong at its point of origin.
What is expansion diffusion?
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism are examples of this type of religion because they actively seek converts.
What are universalizing religions?
The physical and human characteristics that make a place unique and give it a particular identity.
What is sense of place?
A pattern in which objects or people are concentrated closely together in a particular area.
What is a clustered pattern?
Culture that is widespread across large populations and is often associated with urban areas, mass media, and globalization.
What is popular culture?
A type of expansion diffusion in which influential people or important institutions spread a cultural trait to others.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Hinduism and Judaism are examples of religions that are generally associated with particular ethnic or cultural groups.
What are ethnic religions?
This concept describes how the likelihood of interaction between two places decreases as the distance between them increases.
What is distance decay?
A map projection that preserves the shape of landmasses but distorts their size, especially near the poles.
What is the Mercator projection?
The visible imprint of human culture on the physical environment, including buildings, roads, agriculture, and religious structures.
What is the cultural landscape?
A type of expansion diffusion in which a cultural trait spreads from person to person through direct contact, often bypassing major population centers.
What is contagious diffusion?
The process in which people adopt some characteristics of another culture while still maintaining important elements of their original culture.
What is acculturation?