Culture - A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and government, Cultural Landscape  - Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place, Contagious Diffusion - the distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local population by contact from person to person, Diffusion - the spread of ideas, objects, inventions, and other practices from place to place over time, Expansion Diffusion - when innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations, Hierarchical Diffusion  - when a cultural trend is spread from one segment of society to another in a pattern, Relocation Diffusion - spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another, Stimulus Diffusion - when an idea diffuses from its cultural hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters, Hearth - The region from which innovative ideas originate; point of origin, Uneven Development  - The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy, Gravity Model of Spatial Interaction - the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another, Infrastructure - The basic structure of services, installations, and facilities needed to support industrial, agricultural, and other economic development, Temporal - used to measure the change in a variable over time, 3 Types of Distribution - There are three main aspects of distribution: density, concentration, and patterns. All are used to assist in determining spatial characteristics of the landscape., Capitalism - An economic system in which businesses are owned by private individuals and companies who are free to decide what to produce and how much to charge, Cold War (upper case) - period of time following World War II where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years, Communism - a political and economic ideology that generally seeks the creation of a classless society through state intervention in and control over the economy and society, Concentration  - The extent of a feature's spread over space, Network - a set of interconnected nodes without a center, Socialism  - economic and political system in which the government regulates private business and basic industries and controls the means of production, Spatial - Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface , Case Study - a process or record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time, Geospatial - data that is directly linked to specific geographical location, Friction of Distance - movement incurs some form of cost, in the form of physical effort, energy, time, and/or the expenditure of other resources, and that these costs are proportional to the distance traveled, Reference Map - show locations of places as well as human and natural geographic features,

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