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| Whole tangible lifestyle of people, but also their prevailing beliefs? |
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| Culture is not ___________ predetermined. |
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| What is the classification order of culture components from largest to smallest? |
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| Realm, system, complex, trait |
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| What is an area within which a particular culture system prevails? |
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| What is a single attribute of culture? |
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| What is a distinct combination of traits? |
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| What are culture complexes with common traits? |
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| What is an assemblage of culture regions or geographic regions? |
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| What are the five key topics of cultural geography? |
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| Cultural landscape, hearths, diffusion, perception, and enviorments |
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| Who is the most closely identified geographer with cultural landscape? |
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| What is all the human induced changes on the natural landscape? |
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| What is the notion that successive cultures leave their imprint on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape? |
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| What are the sources of civilization, outward from which radiated the ideas, innovations and ideologies that would change the world? |
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| Where did early culture hearths develop? |
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| In the valleys and basins of the great river systems of SW Asia, N Africa, S & SE Asia, and E Asia |
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| Where did the middle and south american culture hearths evolve? |
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| What began as culture hearths but their growth and development had a wider, sometimes global impact? |
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| What is the process of dissemination, the spread of an idea or innovation from its source area to other cultures? |
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| What is an innovation or idea that develops in a source area and remains strong there while spreading outward? |
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| What are the three types of expansion diffusion? |
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| Contagious, hierarchical, stimulus |
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| What type of diffusion affects nearly all adjacent individuals? |
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| What type of diffusion has the the main channel of diffusion which some segment of those who are susceptible to or adopting what is being diffused? |
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| What type of diffusion has an idea or innovation that can not be readily and directly adopted by a receiving population? |
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| What is an actual movement of people who have adopted the idea or innovation and who carry it to a new, perhaps distant locale where they proceed to disseminate it? |
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| What are the four types of relocation diffusion? |
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| Acculturation, Assimilation, Transculturation, Migrant diffusion |
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| What is it when cultures make contact through relocation diffusion, one culture often comes to dominate another? |
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| What is the central question called for how cultures and nature interact? |
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| What is it called when the adoption of cultural elements from the dominant culture can be so complete that the two cultures become indistinguishable? |
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| What is it called when contact occurs that is equal in numbers, strength and complexity, in such cases, a genuine exchange follows, in which both cultures function as sources and adopters? |
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| What is it called when an innovation originates somewhere and enjoys strong, but brief adoption there? |
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| What is it called when forces can and do work against diffusion and the adoption of new ideas? |
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| What are intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography? |
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| What is it called when the natural enviorment merely serves to limit choices available to culture? |
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| What cultures don't transform their landscape? |
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| Nomadic people, and several people living in desert margins |
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| The areas where success and progress prevailed were the places where the first large clusters of what? |
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| What is the appearance of a particular technique or still a device in widespread areas that wasn't from diffusion? |
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| The invention of the wheel took 2000 years to reach from where to where? |
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| How many perceptual regions exist in the United States? |
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| Who is the notable geographer who studied the perceptual regions of the south? |
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| What is the most distinct perceptual region of the USA? |
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| What is the view that the natural enviorment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life? |
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| What is the geographic viewpoint that holds that human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development? |
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| What is an area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the enviorment consequences of dominant political, economic arrangements and understandings? |
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