Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope

Globalization

Relating to the arrangement, location, and distribution of things on the Earth's surface - global, regional, national, subnational, or local scales

Spatial

the distribution of one feature is related to the distribution of another feature

Spatial Association

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population

Contagious Diffusion

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

Relocation Diffusion

- physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment

Possibilism

a combination of cultural features such as language and religion, 

economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation

Cultural Landscape

the concept that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, building cumulative layers that shape the present-day cultural landscape

Sequent Occupance

an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics; language, economic activity (production of a particular crop), or an environmental property such as climate; present throughout

Formal Region (Uniform Region)

an area organized around a node or what is a functional region focal point

Functional Region(Nodal Region)

an area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity 

Perceptual region/Vernacular region

 The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitutes the distinct tradition of a group of people

Culture

the physical character of a place; climate, water sources, topography, soil, vegetation, latitude, elevation

Site

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

Hierarchical Diffusion

 the use of Earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future

sustainability

the location of a place relative to other places; can help find an unfamiliar place and understanding the importance of a place

Situation (relative location)

 process of a cultural groups features being altered to resemble those of another group

Assimilation

the process of changes in culture that result from the meeting of two groups

Accultaration

process by which cultural ideas, beliefs, practices, and technologies spread from one society or place to another

Cultural Diffusion

Contact Diminishes with increasing distance before disappearing

Distance Decay

The reduction of time it takes for something to reach another place

Space Time Compression

obstacles that hinder effective communication, understanding, or interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds

Cultural Barrier

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

Expansion Diffusion

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

Stimulus Diffusion

 The physical environment causes social developmen

Environmental Determinism

 any data that identifies the geographic location and characteristics of natural or man-made features on Earth.

Geographic Information

a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic

Place

ability to interpret different maps/charts/table on different scales

Scale of analysis

physical gap between two objects; tends to be regular

Space

relationships among people and objects across a barrier of space

Connection

the visible features of an area of land, combining both physical and human elements

Landscape

A place from which an innovation originates

Hearth