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Environmental Determinism
Physical environment caused social development
Hearth
Place from which an innovation originates
Vernacular Region
Area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity
Cultural Landscape
Combination of cultural features such as agriculture and industry, and the physical features such as climate and vegetation
Possibilism
Physical environment may limit some human actions but people have the ability to their environment
Expansion Diffusion
Spread of a feature from one place to another in an additive process
Relocation Diffusion
Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Location
The position that something occupies on Earth's surface
Stimulus Diffusion
Spread of underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse
Assimilation
Process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group
Functional Region
Area organized around a node or focal point
Formal Region
Area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics
Syncretism
Combination of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature
Distortion
Inaccurate representation of something
Contagious Diffusion
Rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population (diseases -influenza)
Projection
Scientific method of transferring locations on Earths surface to a flat map
Place
Specific point on Earth, distinguished by a particular characteristic
Scale
Relationship between the portion of earth being studied and Earth as a whole
Hierarchal Diffusion
Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
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