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| Relocation diffusion refers to the process of spreading ideas around the world. More specifically, it refers to the theory that when people move around the world, they carry their ideas with them. |
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| The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
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| is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. |
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| Regional outbreak of a disease |
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| place of origin of a major culture |
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| lines on a map connecting points of equal temperature values |
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| A region defined by perception |
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| A region characterized by a set of places connected to another place by lines of communication or movement |
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| The visible imprint of of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially impinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants |
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| A territory with one or more features present throughout and absent or unimportant elsewhere. |
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| Pertaining to space on the earth's surface; sometimes uded as a synonym for geographic |
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| the design of a spatial disribution |
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| A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging od innovationsover wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influence |
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| the declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. also refered to as environmentalism |
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