Unit 1 APHUG

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Environmental Determinism

Physical environment caused social development

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Hearth

Place from which an innovation originates

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Vernacular Region

Area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity

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Cultural Landscape

Combination of cultural features such as agriculture and industry, and the physical features such as climate and vegetation

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Possibilism

Physical environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to their environment

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Expansion Diffusion

Spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process

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Relocation Diffusion

Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

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Location

The position that something occupies on Earth's surface

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Stimulus Diffusion

Spread of underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse

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Assimilation

Process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group

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Functional Region

Area organized around a node or focal point

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Formal Region

Area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics

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Syncretism

Combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature

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Distortion

Inaccurate representation of something

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Contagious Diffusion

Rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population (diseases -influenza)

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Projection

Scientific method of transferring locations on Earths surface to a flat map

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Place

Specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic

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Scale

Relationship between the portion of earth being studied and Earth as a whole

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Hierarchal Diffusion

Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places

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Acculturation

Process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups
* Changes may be experienced by both of the interacting cultural groups, but the two groups retain two distinct cultural features