Aphug

Cartogram

A type of thematic map that distorts the shape and size of geographic regions based on a specific data variable, such as population or economic indicators, effectively visualizing information in a more impactful way.

Contagious diffusion

The wavelike spread of ideas like a disease

Cultural ecology

The study of interactions between societies

Cultural landscape

The built forms that groups create

Diffusion

The pattern a phenomenon occurs space and time

Ecology

Biological science concerned with studying the relationships among living organisms

Environmental determinism

The belief that the physical environment is the dominant force of culture

Environmental perception

Mental images that comprise humans perception of nature

Expansion diffusion

When ideas spread through a population so that it increases

Formal region

Area inhabited by people one or more traits in common

Friction of distance

Inhabiting effect of distance on the intensity and volume of most forms of human interaction time space compression diminishes

Global scale

Scale that looks at phenomenons across the world

Globalization

The process by which businesses develop international influence

Glocal perspective

Perspective that acknowledges the 2 way relationship between things

Hierarchical diffusion

When ideas leapfrog from 1 important thing to another one

Interdependence

Ties established between places that over time make a economic system that’s not based on equality

Local scale analysis

Scale that identifies geographic phenomena within a place

Mental map

Personal representation of the earth

National scale analysis

Scale that identifies geographic phenomena within a specific country