Set: Gerfer's Human Geography Chap. 2

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acculturation Cultural modification resulting from intercultural borrowing. In cultural geography and anthropolgy, the term is often used to designate the change that occurs in the culture of a less technologically advanced people when contact is made with a society that is more technologically advanced.
assimilation The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
civilization An advanced state of a society possessing historical and cultural unity whose attributes include plant and animal domestication, metallurgy, occupational specialization, writing and urbanization.
contagious diffusion The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person - analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.
cultural diffusion The process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin across a wider area.
cultural landscape The forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the physical landscape by the activities of various human occupants.
culture The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
culture complex A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
culture hearth Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
culture realm A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail.
culture region A region within which common culture charecteristics prevail.
culture system include ethnicity, language, religion, and other cultural traits.
culture trait A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban.
diffusion The spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture element or some other phenomenon.
environmental determinism The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development.
expansion diffusion The spread of an innovation or an idea through a populationin an area in such a way that the number of those influenced grows continuously larger, resulting in an expanding area of dissemination.
geographic realm The basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme.
geographic region used when describing regions with similar cultural, locational and environmental circumstances.
hierarchical diffusion A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by trickling down from larger to smaller adoption units.
independent invention when people learn things on their own.
migrant diffusion when something is adopted in an area for a brief, but strong time.
perceptual region A region that only exists as a conceptualization or an idea and not as a physically demarcated entity.
political ecology An approach to studying nature - society relations that is concerned with the ways in which environmental issues both reflect, and are the result of, the political and socioeconomic contexts in which they are situated.
possibilism Geographic viewpoint - a response to determinism - that holds that human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development, not the environment.
relocation diffusion Sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate to new ones.
sequent occupance The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
stimulous diffusion when some ideas are to vague to be fully adopted.
transculteration Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological levvel come into close contact.

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  1. culture region → A region within which common culture charecteristics prevail. - 4 misses
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  3. sequent occupance → The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. - 4 misses
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  6. assimilation → The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. - 2 misses
  7. transculteration → Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological levvel come into close contact. - 2 misses