vocab+lesson+7

Culture: Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

Ethnocentric: Any policy, research, and action on the part of individuals or institutions that promote (intentionally or unintentionally) the believed superiority of one group, profession, or set of ideals over another can be considered ethnocentric

Topography: the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations

Geography: study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation

Vegetation: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" the process of growth in plants an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"

Climate: the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime travel best ... the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"

Universals: In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. ...

Diffusion: (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower ... the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another dissemination: the property of being diffused or dispersed

Location: a point or extent in space placement: the act of putting something in a certain place localization: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made; "they shot the film on location in Nevada"

Place: topographic point: a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"

Movement:a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

Human Environment Interaction: How people affect their environment and how the environment affects them

Region: the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"