APhugo vocab 2

Formal region

Area defined by uniformity in one or more physical/cultural characteristic

Functional region

Area defined by a focal point, its function

Vernacular region

Area defined by people’s shared culture, feelings, identity

Possibilism

Nature creates a standard, but people override and create what they want

Environmental determinism

Theory that physical environment shapes human culture behavior and development

Scale of analysis

Geographic level that a map focuses on

Absolute location

Coordinates

Relative location

Location based off of what it’s near

Spatial diffusion

Idea/disease/trait spreads across space and through time away from hearth

Distance decay

Similarities between places decreases as distance increases

Time-space compression

Tech makes the world seem smaller

Mercator projection

Longitude and latitude at 90 degrees, square