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| Contagious diffusion is the rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population. Ideas that are spread Through contagious diffusion are spread throughout the population like the flu would. |
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| Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural Processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment. |
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| Of or relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. |
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| The frequency with which something occurs in space |
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| The spreading of something more widely. |
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| Distance decay is a geographical term which describes the effect of distance on cultural or spatial interactions. The distance decay effect states that The interaction between two locales declines as the distance between them increases. |
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| The arrangement of a feature in space |
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| Environmental Determinism |
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| An approach on how the physical environment caused social development |
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| An imaginary line at equal distances from the poles defined as zero degrees latitude |
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| the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
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| A region with clear defined boundries |
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| The notion that distance usually requires some amount of effort, money, and/or energy to overcome. Because of this "friction," spatial interactions will tend to take place more often over shorter distances; quantity of interaction will decline with distance. |
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| A region focusing around a centeral point or node that degrades the further away you are from the focal point |
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| A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. |
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| Global Positioning System |
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| Gravity model of migration. The gravity model of migration is a model in urban geography derived from Newton's law of gravity, and used to predict the degree of interaction between two places |
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| Spreading of an Idea from authorities to underlings |
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| The place from which an innovation originates |
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| A line defined close to 180 degrees longitude and 12 hours GMT |
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| The numbering system to indicate the location of a parallel |
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| the numbering system used to indicate The location of meridians drawn on a globe and measuring distance east and west of the prime meridian |
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| A projection of a map of the world onto a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, used especially for marine charts and certain climatological maps |
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| A system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate |
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| Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. |
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| The meridian that passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, is 0 degrees longitude |
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| The scientific method of transferring locations on Earth's surface to a flat map |
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| The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another |
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| The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth or from other long-distance methods |
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| The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map which shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image. |
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| The relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole |
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| The physical character of a place |
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| The location of a place relative to other places |
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| A term applied by geographers to describe the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
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| In a more restricted sense, spatial Analysis is the techniques applied to structures at the human scale, most notably in the analysis of geographic data. Complex issues arise in spatial analysis, many of which are neither clearly defined nor completely resolved, but form the basis for current research. |
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| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse |
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| A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used. |
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| Tobler's first law of geography. The first law of geography according to Waldo Tobler is "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." |
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| The name given to a place on Earth |
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| The increasing gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from globalization of the economy |
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| A place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity |
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