AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Part 1 – Flashcards
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Acculturation
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Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
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Assimilation
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Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
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Cultural Adaptation
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new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people
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Cultural Core/Periphery Pattern
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The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties
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Cultural Ecology
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The geographic study of human environmental relationships
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Cultural Identity
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Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
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Cultural Landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
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Cultural Realm
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The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development
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Culture
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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.
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Formal Region
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An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
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Functional Region
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Region organized at a node or focal point
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Vernacular Region
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A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
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Expansion Diffusion
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The spread of one feature from one place to another in a snowballing process
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Relocation Diffusion
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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
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Innovation Adoption
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Study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture
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Maladaptive Diffusion
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Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another
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Sequent Occupancy
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Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey
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Adaptive Strategies
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technology, ecology, demography, and economies that define human behavior
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Anglo-American Landscape
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an American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English
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Characteristics
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a distinguishing quality
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Architectural Form
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the look of housing, effected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time
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Built Environment
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The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.
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Folk Culture
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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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Folk Food
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traditional food
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Folk Houses
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common houses in America
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Folk Songs
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traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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Folklore
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unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture
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Material Culture
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The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture
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Nonmaterial Culture
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group's ways of thinking (its beliefs , values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing(its common patterns of behavior, including language, gestures, and other forms of interaction)
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Popular Culture
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Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
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Survey Systems
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the system surveys are organized by
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Traditional Architecture
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traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places
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Creole
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a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue
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Dialect
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local or regional characteristics of a language
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Indo-European Languages
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a family of several hundred related languages and dialects
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Isogloss
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a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs
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Language
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a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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Language Family
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group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin
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Language Group
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set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
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Language Subfamily
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a smaller group of related languages within a language family
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Lingua Franca
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a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce
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Linguistic Diversity
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the amount of variation of languages a place has
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Monolingual
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only one language spoken
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Official Language
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in multilingual countries the language selected to promote internal cohesion; usually the language of the courts and government
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Pidgin
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when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary
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Toponyms
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the study of place names of a region, or toponyms
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Trade Language
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A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other
