Unit 3 Overview
"The main focus of this unit is on cultural patterns and processes that create recognized cultural identities...Visuals representing artifacts, mentifacts and sociofacts all shed light on cultural landscapes and how they change over time.
This unit also considers from a temporal and spatial perspective how culture spreads, through traditional forces such as colonialism and imperialism and through contemporary forces such as social media. Rather than emphasize the details of cultural practices associated with specific languages and religions, this unit instead focuses on the distribution of cultural practices and on the causes and effects of their diffusion."
3.1 Introduction to Culture
3.2 Cultural Landscapes
3.3 Cultural Patterns
3.4 Types of Diffusion
3.5 Historical Causes of Diffusion
3.6 Contemporary Causes of Diffusion
3.7 Diffusion of Religion and Language
3.8 Effects of Diffusion
Concepts + Processes
1.D Describe a relevant geographic concept, process, model, or theory in a specifies context.
Spatial Relationships
2.B Explain spatial relationships in a specified context of region of the world, using geographic concepts, processes, models, or theories.
2.C Explain a likely outcome in a geographic scenario using geographic concepts, processes, models, and theories.
Source Analysis
4.A Identify the different types of information presented in visual sources.
4.B Describe the spatial patterns presented in visual sources.
4.C Explain patterns and trends in visual sources to draw conclusions.
4.E Explain how maps, images, and landscapes illustrate or relate to geographic principles, processes, and outcomes.
Scale Analysis
5.B Explain spatial relationships across various geographic scales using geographic concepts, processes, models, or theories.