| Key Term: Definition: | Concentration The extent of a feature’s spread over space | Connections Relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space! | Contagious diffusion The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population! |
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What is the arrangement of a feature in space?
distribution
. the arrangement of a feature in space.
How do characteristics spread from one place to another?
Diffusion
: The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
When a feature spreads from a hearth?
Diffusion
: spread of a feature from one place to another over time.
When something is clustered or dispersed in an area or the extent of a feature’s spread is known as?
Concentration
is the extent of a feature’s spread over space. Two examples of concentration are scattered and clustered.
What are the 4 types of diffusion?
each group a different type of diffusion (relocation, hierarchical, contagious, or stimulus). Each group should come up with one example of diffusion for each of the four different types of scale:
local, regional, and global
.
What are the 5 types of diffusion?
Ideas spread when people move. You just studied 5 terms!
Relocation, expansion, contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus diffusion
.
What are 5 physical features?
Landforms include
hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, and valleys
, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.
Hierarchical Diffusion
– (p. 18) The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
What are physical features?
Human and physical features are
things that you can see all around you
. Physical features like seas, mountains and rivers are natural. They would be here even if there were no people around. Human features like houses, roads and bridges are things that have been built by people.
What are the three major reasons for these three areas being hearths?
oceans, deserts and unequal access to electronics. What are the three major reasons for these three areas being hearths?
The increasing economic gap between regions in the world are in between regions in the core and periphery
that results from the globalization in the economy.
What are the 3 types of expansion diffusion?
Stimulus, contagious, and hierarchical diffusion
are all kinds of expansion diffusion.
Is the spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse?
Stimulus diffusion
is the spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. spread of an innovation, idea, or other item via the movement of people from one area to another.
What are 6 types of distribution patterns?
- Uniform dispersion. In uniform dispersion, individuals of a population are spaced more or less evenly. …
- Random dispersion. In random dispersion, individuals are distributed randomly, without a predictable pattern. …
- Clumped dispersion. In a clumped dispersion, individuals are clustered in groups.
What is the difference between a dispersed and a clustered distribution?
Dispersed/ Scattered-
If objects are relatively far apart
. Clustered/ Agglomerated- If objects are close/grouped together. Distance- How far apart objects are.
Which factor most often causes voluntary migration?
People are significantly more likely to undertake voluntary migration for economic opportunity than any other reason.
Political freedom and cultural affiliation
are more likely to be pull factors for refugees and victims of civil conflict who are undergoing forced migration.
