Cultural Geography Flashcards

The study of the location of people and activities across Earth and the reasons for their distribution.

A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including such learned features as speech, ideology, behavior, etc.

The study of spatial variations among cultural traits and the spatial functioning of society.

<p>Culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, culture interaction, and culture landscape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area defined by distinctive cultural characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Formal, functional, and vernacular.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area that has been organized to function politically, socially, or economically as a unit (has a central point).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants, often has a regional name (perceptual).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The geographical origin and spread of ideas and innovations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expansion, relocation, and independent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ideas spread throughout a population, from area to area, in a snowballing process (like dominoes).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hierarchical, contagious, and stimulus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ideas leapfrog from one important person/place to another in a 'top-down' manner (Fashion).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wavelike spread, without regard to hierarchies (everyone is affected).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a specific trait fails to spread but the underlying idea or concept is accepted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spread of an idea that occurs through physical relocation (Religion).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The same or very similar innovation is separately developed in different places (pyramids).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spread of an idea decreases with time and distance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In a world increasingly linked under the role of capitalist economics and politics, in which international borders are diminished in importance and a worldwide marketplace is created (homogeneity encouraged).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acceptance of a new idea is most rapid in small clusters around an initial adopter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Absorbing and permeable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Totally halt diffusion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allow partial diffusion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the relationships between the physical environment and culture (two-way street).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Environmental determinism, possibilism, environmental perception, humans as modifiers of the Earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical environment dictates human culture, rationalization of colonization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human culture has the ability to overcome barriers of the physical environment (technology).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture decisions depend more on what they perceive the environment to be than on the actual character of the land (natural disasters).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human culture is the dominant force shaping the environment (opposite of environmental determinism).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ways in which different traits within a culture influence one another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social science and human geography.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific method is applied to the study of people. Theories and spatial principles are used to study patterns across space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stresses the subjectivity and individuality of humans as essential to analysis of spatial variation.</p> Signup and view all the answers