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Geography
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branch of knowlege concern ed with distributions and interrelationships of physical environments and human behaviors over the earth.
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What are the themes of Geography?
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Regions
Diffusion Ecology Interaction Landscape |
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Culture Region
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geographical unit based on human traits
formal, functional and vernacular |
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Formal culture Region
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inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common such as race or religion
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Functional Culture Region
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An area organized politically, socially, or economically ie tv station
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Vernacular Culture Region
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a perception region known by inhabitants and surrounding areas often rooted in popular or folk culture
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Diffusion
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study of movement and distributions. spatial spread of ideas innovations and attitudes
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Expansion diffusion
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spread throughout a population from area to area can be divided into subtypes
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Heirarchical diffusion
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ideas leapfrog from one person to another or one urban center to another temporarly bypassing other persons or territory
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Contagious Diffusion
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involves the wavelike spread of ideas without regard to heirarchies in the manner of a contagious disease
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Stimulus Diffusion
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A specific trait may be rejected but the underlying idea is accepted
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Relocation Diffusion
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occurs when individuals migrate to a new location ie Religion
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Ecology
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study of the cause and effect interplay between cultures and the physical environment the human way of meeting physical environmental challenges
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Four schools of thought
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environmental determinsim, possibilism, environmental percception, humans as modifiers of the Earth
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Environmental determinism
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Physical environment provided a dominant force in shaping cultures
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Possibilism
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the environments provides a range of choices
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Envirionmental Perception
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how the environment is veiwed to be versus how it actually is
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Humans as Modifiers of Earth
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humans as masters of the Earth
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