An official count of the country's population

What is Cultural Landscape?

The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.

What is a Cultural Trait?

A single element of normal practice in a culture

The measurement of physical space between two places

What is distance decay?

The greater the distance the less interaction

What is Environment determinism?

The view that the natural environment has controlling influence over various aspects if human life

What is Globalization?

The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global.

What is Hierarchical diffusion?

A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.

A combination of natural and human- induced influences

A line running parallel to the equator that is used to measure distance in degrees north or south from the equator.

A line circling the Earth running through the poles. Determined by measurement of the angular in degrees east or west from the Prime Meridian

What is Medical Geography?

The study of health and disease within a geographic context and from a geographical perspective

What is the definition of Space?

Social relations stretched out.

What is the definition of Site?

The physical character of place.

What is the definition of Situation?

The location of a place relative to other places.

What is a Formal Region?

area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics.

What is the definition of Functional Region?

The primary node in a functional region features surrounding areas with common social, political, or economic purposes that relate to trade, communications, or

What is a Perceptual Region?

Defined by an area where attitudes, culture, and feelings are the same

A part of the planet characterized by a level of similarity based on certain features.

What is Cultural Environmentalism?

cultural traits and societal traditions are primarily informed by environmental differences between different regions.

What is Cultural Determinism?

Environment does not play a role towards determining human behaviors or placing restrictions but rather humans place their own cultural restrictions

What is Environmental Possibilism?

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course

What is the definition of Quantitative?

Investigation of how the human species has populated the earth and developed different cultures, political systems, and means of production

What is the definition of Concentration?

The spacing of people within geographic population boundaries.

What is Stimulus Diffusion?

Stimulus diffusion is when a trend spreads to a new location or cultural context

What is the definition of Absolute distance?

The distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length such as a mile or kilometer.

What is the definition of Relative distance?

Approximate measurement of the physical space between two places

What is the definition of Prime Meridian?

The prime meridian is the line of 0 longitude.

What is the definition of Space-Time compression?

The distance between places is, in effect, shrinking due to certain transportation and communities technologies

What does an Area mean?

A term with less specificity than a region that refers to a part of the Earth's surface.

Refers to a part of the Earth's surface.

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