1. AP Human Geography Cultural Patterns and Processes Unit
Diffusion
AP Human Geography
Cultural Patterns and Processes Unit

2. For today, 11/03:
Chapter 4 Reading Quiz is Wednesday, 11/09.
Fun Food Friday will be next Friday, 11/11.
Label your notes for today “DIFFUSION.”
What does this map show you the locations of? Discuss with your group and pick someone to share your group’s ONE guess.

3. Hearth
Place from which an innovation originates

4. Cool Hearths Cheeseburger Pasadena, CA Blue jeans San Francisco, CA
Coffee
Rap music
Chocolate
Basketball
Pasadena, CA
San Francisco, CA
Ethiopia
New York, NY
MesoAmerica
Springfield, MA

5. Diffusion
A characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time
Relocation
Expansion
Hierarchical
Contagious
Stimulus

6. Diffusion Types Relocation: duh
Hierarchical: bypasses less important place for nodes of importance
Contagious: spreads rapidly all over
Stimulus: underlying principle is diffused, but actual characteristic not present

7. Contagious Diffusion

8. Contagious Diffusion

9. Contagious Diffusion

10. Contagious Diffusion

11. Contagious Diffusion

12. Hierarchical Diffusion

13. Contagious Diffusion

14. Hierarchical Diffusion

15. Hierarchical Diffusion

16. Relocation Diffusion

17. Relocation Diffusion

18. Check for Understanding:
In your groups, come up with three examples of each type of diffusion. If you are having trouble consult: (1.) pages 26-27, 110 (2.) Chapter 1 notes

19. Space-Time Compression
Modern networks make it possible to know more about what is happening in the world and STC makes it possible for us to know it sooner.

20. No Diffusion For You! Time Distance Decay Intervening Obstacle
Physical
Cultural

21. Take an of your artifact from your Cultural Handprint and:
Your Assignment
Take an of your artifact from your Cultural Handprint and:
(1.) Research its hearth
(2.) Research the type(s) of diffusion it experienced before becoming one of the things that helps define you
(3.) Cite each source you used in the research