Diffusion
What type of diffusion is the rapid spread of an idea, innovation, or cultural element through a population, like a disease?
Contagious diffusion
What type of map is an individual's internal representation of their environment, based on their understanding and perception of the place?
Mental maps
What are the ways in which humans depend on, modify, and adapt to their environment.
Human environment interactions
What theory suggests that societies and cultures are shaped by their physical environment? (climate, geography, and resources)
Environnmental determinism
What describes a place of origin for a trend or cultural practice?
Cultural hearth
What type of diffusion is the spread of cultural traits or ideas when a population physically moves from one place to another carrying their beliefs and practices with them?
Relocation diffusion
What is the computer system that stores manages, and analyzes data related to geographic locations called?
GIS
What is the movement of people, goods, information, and other resources between locations.
Spatial interaction
What are external factors that cause emotional or mental strain called?
Environmental stress
What is a specific behavior, custom, belief, or tool, that is a characteristic of a culture called?
Cultural trait
What type of diffusion is the spread of an idea or innovation across a population where the number of adopters continue to increase, still remaining strong in the hearth?
Expansion diffusion
What is the practice of drawing maps called?
Cartography
What explains the relationships and connections across distances, between people, places and objects.
Connectivity
What is it called when average weather conditions become warmer, wetter, or drier?
climate change
What are the obstacles that arise from differences in cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs that impact communication and interaction between people called?
Cultural barriers
What type of diffusion is the ideas are adopted and modified instead of copied directly?
Stimulus diffusion
What types of maps display information about a topic or theme within a geographical area?
Thematic maps
What is the increasing in interconnectedness and interdependence between nations.
Globalization
What is the process called where the most nutrient-rich layer of soil is removed usually by wind, water, or agriculture?
soil erosion
What is the field that studies complex relationships between human cultures and their environments.
Cultural ecology
what type of diffusion is ideas, innovation, or trends that spread from higher to lower levels?
Hierarchical diffusion.
Reference maps
What is the idea that the environment present constraints, but human culture is ultimately shaped by social conditions and human agencies.
Possibilism
What are underground layers of rock or sediment and hold water.
Aquifers
What is a cluster of interrelated traits and elements within a culture, organized around a central idea or activity called.
Cultural complex