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26 Cards in this Set
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Geography
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Describing the earth
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Geography
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The study of location and spatial relationships
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5 Themes of Geography
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1. Location, 2. Human Environment Interaction, 3. Place, 4. Region, 5. Movement
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5 Themes of Cultural Geography
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1. Region, 2. Movement, 3. Human Environment Interaction, 4. Landscape, 5. Globalization
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Types of Regions
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Formal, Functional, Perceptual/Vernacular
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Formal Region
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An area with people who have one or more cultural traits in common.
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Functional Region
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An area that has been organized to function politically, socially or economically (usually has a node).
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Perceptual/Vernacular Region
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An area defined by people's perceptions.
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Diffusion
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Movement
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Time -distance Decay
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The further away from the source, the weaker the trait
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Contagious Diffusion
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Something spreads to the closest people first (like a disease) and they keep passing it to the people closest to them.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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Something spreads to important/high up people first (people who have influence).
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Relocation Diffusion
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When people move, or relocate, they take their culture traits with them.
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Culture Hearth
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Nuclear area within which a distinct set of culture traits develops and from which they diffuse.
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Cultural Landscape
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The VISIBLE imprint of humans upon the earth's surface.
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Landscape as Text
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"Reading" the landscape
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Landscape as Palimpsest
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Traces of landscape are still visible even when a place has changed over time
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Globalization
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The binding together of all the lands and peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by capitalistic free markets, in which cultural diffusion is rapid and independent states are weakened and cultural homogenization is encouraged
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Globalization often results in...
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phenomenon of time space compression. AKA distance seems smaller.
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Cultural Imperialism
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When one culture dominates over another.
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Cultural Exportation
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One culture being exported to other places. Eg. American culture- Starbucks, McDonalds
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Supernatural Organization
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A group of independent countries, or places, joined together for purposes of mutual interest.
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Glocalization
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The process by which global forces of change interact with local cultures, altering both in the process
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The Demonstration Effect
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When people see people from another culture that have things and then they realize that they have desires for these things and they want them for themselves.
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Narrowcasting
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The dissemination of information (usually by electronic media) to a specific audience. (Opposite of BROADcasting- to a general audience)
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Diaspora
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Movement of a population with a common ethnic identity who left their homeland voluntarily or involuntarily to settle in distant, often scattered areas.
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