APHUG Vocabulary

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.

• Globalization

• Hearth

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Pandemic

Line on a map connecting points of equal temperature values

• Isotherm

• Mental Map

• Map Projection

• Hierarchical Diffusion

Maps that people create in their minds based on their own experience and knowledge

• Mental Map

• Map Projection

• Hearth

• Isotherm

flows

• primarily refers to the size or extent of a geographic area

• shows the movement of people, objects, ideas, etc. between places

• refers to the characteristics or qualities of a geographic area

• the geometric or regular arrangement of something within an area

is a system of government in which power is shared between the national and state governments.

• Federalism

• Communism

• Socialism

A state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered.

• Frontier

• Satellite States

• Shatterbelt

• Buffer State

a large group of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

• state

• nation

• autonomous region

• political entity

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• autonomous region

• political entity

• state

• nation

An ethnic group of people that are not in charge of any sovereign government.

• independent state

• stateless nation

• multi-state nation

• multinational state

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically is called

• occupation

• conquest

• colonialism

• terra nullius