thinking geographically unit 1 VOCAB

Human geography

How human activities are affected by and affect the earths surface

Globalization

Interdependence of economics, cultures, and populations worldwide wide. Affected by trade and the flow of information.

Spatial distribution

The arrangement of features (people, objects) on earths surface

“Why of where”

Why things are hindered there because of spatial patterns and distributions.

Epidemic

Virus that spread around a area of a population.

Pandemic

Global outbreak that spreads around multiple countries

Environmental detirism

Physical & climate depict human culture, and actions.

Environmental possibilism

Suggests that the environment offers a range of possibilities for human culture to grow from, but people decide culture more.

Carrying capacity

Maximum population size of species that a given environment can sustain

Formal regions

An area where everything shares one or more common, measurable characteristics (language, climate, or political boundaries)

Functional region

An area organized around a central local point, with activities and interactions flowing to and from that central point

Perceptual region

People’s subjective perceptions, feelings and attitudes about an area.

Sense of place

An emotional connection that certain individuals or groups have to a particular location.

Perception of place

How individuals/ Groups understand and interpret the characteristics and significance of a location

Diffusion

The spread of petiole, things or odds from one location to another

Spatial interactions

How movement of people/groups/ info travel through interactions, through different locations

Hearth

The train point/ center of development for a culture/innovation / or idea.

Cultural landscape

Geographical area that shows an imprint of human activity and culture on the natural environment

Sequent occupance

Concept of successful societies leaving their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to the unique cumulative cultural landscape.

Scale

The ratio of map distance to earths surface (real world distance)

Mental map

Personal/internal representation of spatial information (data describing earth), describing the persons knowledge about a place.

Activity spaces

The geographic area where a person/group conduct their regular daily activities.

Cartography

Art and science of map-making

Assimilation

Process where a minority group adopts customs/ attitudes of a dominant culture, potentially losing their own cultural identity in the process.

Acculturation

Process where a less dominant culture adapts some traits of a dominant culture, but still keeping their individual cultural identities.

Adapt

To adjust to fit somewhere

Assertion

Confident statement on a geographical topic

Bypass

Do around

Circulation

Short term, repetitive movements of people that are not permanent.

Concurrently

Siamotainously

Influx

Large amount of people arriving in a new area, caused a significant change

Infusing

The act of gradually introducing a quality into something to make it stronger.

Uniformity

Formal region (place wit some characteristics)characterized by a high degree of constituency of cultural attributes shared with everyone in the region.