Landscape

Unit One Vocabulary - Nature and Perspectives 1. Human Geography - the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. The study of how humans interact with the world. 2. Sequent Occupance - The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. Each society in an area leaves a cultural imprint, adding to the cultural landscape. 3. Cultural Landscape - the fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. This is the essence of how humans interact with nature. How humans change and interact with nature. 4. Diffusion - The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time. The spread of something from one place to another.