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5 Themes
Vocab
Diffusion
Misc 1
Misc 2
100
The relationship between humans and their surroundings
What is human-environmental interaction?
100
The starting point of a cultural trait
What is cultural hearth?
100
Innovation or idea develops in a hearth where it remains strong and also spreads outward.
What is Expansion Diffusion?
100
The maps in our minds that we develop from places we have been or have heard of.
What are mental maps?
100
Percentage of the worlds population that is severely malnourished.
What is 1/6 or 16.67%?
200
The exact point on a map
What is absolute location?
200
Concerned with the environmental consequences of political-economic arrangements.
What is political ecology?
200
Spread of an idea with the movement of people.
What is relocation diffusion?
200
The location of a place in relationship to something else.
What is relative location?
200
The majority of those that are malnourished
What are women and children?
300
Includes physical and human features such as landforms, bodies of water, religion, and language
What is Place?
300
Concerned with culture as an adaptation to environment
What is cultural ecology?
300
The form of expansion diffusion that starts in the hearth and spreads to all adjacent individuals.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
300
The study of people and places. How we interact with each other, how we organize space and society, etc.
What is Human Geography?
300
The reason why so many people are malnourished.
What is less power and less money?
400
An area with shared features such as human characteristics or common landforms (like the Great Lakes)
What is region?
400
Human behavior is strongly affected by the physical environment.
What is environmental determinism?
400
The form of expansion diffusion that starts in the hearth and spreads to those that are most susceptible. Spread to those in "power"
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
400
Infusing a place with meaning and emotion.
What is sense of place?
400
The sharing of cultural traits across different areas. Like religion.
What is cultural complex?
500
Includes things like trade, migration, importing and exporting goods.
What is movement?
500
The natural environment serves merely as a limit to the choices of a culture.
What is environmental possibilism?
500
Encourages the development of another product that is similar. Think of the veggie burger.
What is stimulus diffusion?
500
Our thoughts of a place we have never been based on books, movies, stories, and pictures.
What is perception of place?
500
A single thing relating to culture, such as the wearing of turbans?
What is cultural trait?