Built Environment
The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, and etc.
Cultural/Environmental Perception
The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
Culture Hearth
A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and the cultural landscape features they imply. *
Culture Trait
Smallest item of culture -building the block of culture.

Learned behavior ranging from language spoken to tools to games. They can be objects, techniques beliefs, or attitudes

Culture Complex
Individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated
Culture Region
Culture traits and complexes have a real extent. Used to show the spatial extent of similar cultural areas.
Culture Realm
Cultural regions showing similar complexes and landscapes are grouped to form a larger area
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

Folk food
food that is traditionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
Folklore
the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc. of people
Folk songs
folk songs originate anonymously and diffused through migration. Folk songs tell stories or convey info about life cycle events
Folk houses
houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of the environment. The type of building materials used to construct folk houses is influenced partly by the resources available
Artifact
Item used to represent a culture and proof of human activity The material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, and etc.
Material Culture
Physical manifestation of human activities: tools art, structure, the most durable aspects of culture. The tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles and technologies.

Non Material Culture
Beliefs and practices shared by a group -values and morals
Mentifact
Behavior, values and beliefs you are supposed to have in a society The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Custom
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
Habit
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Cultural Ecology
a geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships
Cultural Landscape
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
Culture
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition
Diffusion
The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time
Expansion diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Cultural identity
One's belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
Exclave
A religion that is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding another religion
Enclave
a religion entirely or mostly surrounded by the another religion
Anglo-American landscape characteristics
distinguished by a set of cultural traits like language, beliefs, customs, norms of behavior, social institutions, the way of life, artifacts etc. An American, especially a United States inhabitant, whose language and ancestry are English.
Adaptive strategies
A group's system of economic production depends on the relationship between environment and technology.

In non-industrial societies, it will usually be based on food production.

Architectural Form
the look of housing, affected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time
Traditional Architecture
traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places
Survey systems
the step of the system analysis to further define the nature and scope of the project and identity the strengths and weaknesses of the company operating procedures and the current computer system
Local
Folk Spatial Focus
Traditional
Folk Creative Focus
Communal (shared by a community)
Folk Social Focus
Slow
Folk Rate of Evolution
Slow limited -relocation
Folk Diffusion Pattern
Oral communication
Folk Medium of Diffusion
Highly similar -buying and selling the same things
Folk Distribution of consumers and producers
Limited
Folk External Influence
Global
Popular Spatial Focus
Innovation
Popular Creative Focus
Individualistic
Popular Social Focus
Rapid
Popular Rate of Evolution
Rapid extensive hierarchial contagious
Popular Diffusion Pattern
Mass Media
Popular Medium of Diffusion
Highly dissimilar
Popular Distribution of consumers and producers
Extensive
Popular External Influence
Popular Culture
Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies
Heterogeneous
Pop culture is typical of large and ________ groups
Homogeneous
Folk culture is typical of small and ___________ groups
Popular Culture
this culture experiences frequent changes through time and space
MDC
Popular customs frequently originate in
familiar events in daily life
As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from
Terroir
the sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item Ex: wine, coffee
Judaism and Islam
A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
Hinduism
A taboo against beef (cows) is a characteristic of
Faster
Diffusion of internet service is following the earlier pattern of television except that the diffusion is much
Folk culture
The trend of globalization has threatened
Folk culture
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the US is an example of one element of
Popular culture
The spatial distribution of soccer during the 20th century is an example of