Key Terms

absorbing barrier

adaptive strategy

architectural style

border zone

contagious diffusion

core-periphery

cultural adaptation

cultural diffusion

cultural ecology

cultural geography

cultural interaction

cultural landscape

culture

culture region

cybergeography

dispersed

ecosystem

environmental determinism

environmental perception

expansion diffusion

formal culture region

functional culture region

geography

globalization

hierarchical diffusion

independent invention

land-division pattern

mechanistic view of nature

migration

model

natural hazard

neighborhood effect

node

nucleation

organic view of nature

permeable barrier

physical environment

place

possibilism

relocation diffusion

settlement form

space

stimulus diffusion

symbolic landscape

time-distance decay

topophilia

transnationalism

uneven development

vernacular culture region