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Culture
Themes of Human Geography
Diffusion
Geographic Questions/Concepts
100
another term for local culture
What is folk culture?
100
uniqueness of a location and its human and physical characteristics
What is place?
100
the farther a place is from the hearth, the less likely the innovation will be accepted
What is time-distance decay?
100
how something is distributed across space
What is spatial distribution?
200
a house with a wood-frame construction and with a fireplace located in the center of the house
What is a New England home?
200
a particular area in which features tend to be concentrated
What is a region?
200
when an innovation develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outward
What is expansion diffusion?
200
the counter-argument to Environmental Determinism
What is Possibilism?
300
the group of traits that defines a particular culture
What is a culture complex?
300
deals with spatial interactions between places and people
What is movement?
300
to prevent change in their culture, folk cultures must prevent...
What is assimilation or globalization?
300
human behavior is controlled/determined by the physical environment
What is Environmental Determinism?
400
Religion, Language, Ethnicity, Hierarchical rank, etc...
What are examples of non-material pieces of a culture?
400
This question would be asked when studying which theme? Why did the Army of Corps of Engineers alter Florida's physical environment so drastically when they drained part of the Everglades?
What is human-environment interactions?
400
the term to describe how certain innovations, ideas, or practices are not acceptable in particular cultures
What are cultural barriers?
400
he implied that natural landscapes have experiences some sort of alteration over time as a result of human activity
Who is Carl Saur?
500
the term when a folk culture is dominated by a pop culture or another folk culture
What is cultural imperialism?
500
an element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions: Why are villages/towns/cities spaced the way they are?
What is location theory?
500
when ideas are not readily adopted by a population but have an indirect impact
What is stimulus diffusion?
500
a place name given to specific features on the land (roads, streams, lakes, cities)
What is a toponym?