Ap Human Geography Chapter 4 Terms – Flashcards
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the smallest distinctive item of culture. Learned behavior ranging from language, tools, or games.
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Culture Traits
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Individual traits that are functionally interrelated.
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Culture Complex
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When distinctive places share a culture complex.
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Culture System
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Areas of the world occupied by people that share recognizable and distinctive cultural traits
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Culture Regions
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A set of culture regions showing related culture complexes and landscapes
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Culture Realms
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The abstract beliefs passed from one generation to the next as part of the Ideological subsystem of culture.
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Mentifacts
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Material objects used to fill our basic needs, part of the technological subsystem
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Artifacts
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define the social organization of a group and include all relationships including family, economic, military, religious, etc.
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Sociofacts
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Where a specific culture originated.
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Culture Hearth
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The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, etc.
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built environment
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Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority.
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cultural imperialism
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The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.
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cultural convergence
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The concept that people of different cultures will differently observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature, potentialities and use differently.
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cultural perception
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a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture
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cultural landscape
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culturally large scale
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macrocultural
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a group's repeated act that becomes usual
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custom
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architecture that is native to a certain place
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indigenous architecture
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the physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust their environment
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possiblism
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The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
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placelessness
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the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural development
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environmental determinism
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the contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food and wine tastes
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terroir
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the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location being similar to another, such as restaurants.
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uniform landscape
