GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Greenwich Mean Time, International Date Line, Influenza

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 3
• Professor: rossiter

Document Summary

The spread of a feature or trend through physical movement of people from one place to another. The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. Hierarchical diffusion the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other people or places. Contagious diffusion the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. Stimulus diffusion the spread of an underlying principle or thought process, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. King jr. (he is dead but his thought process still lives on). A name given to a place on earth. The relationship to a feature"s size on a map to its actual size on earth. Written scale description in words 1 inch equals 1 mile . Lines of longitude running in the north-south direction ending at the poles. Greenwich mean time the time at the prime meridian.