Ch 23: Human Geography - Spatial Processes: Help and Review
About This Chapter
Who's it for?
Anyone who needs help learning or mastering human geography material will benefit from taking this course. There is no faster or easier way to learn about human geography. Among those who would benefit are:
- Students who have fallen behind in understanding the causes of spatial interaction or the ways in which culture is spread around the world
- Students who struggle with learning disabilities or learning differences, including autism and ADHD
- Students who prefer multiple ways of learning social science (visual or auditory)
- Students who have missed class time and need to catch up
- Students who need an efficient way to learn about spatial processes
- Students who struggle to understand their teachers
- Students who attend schools without extra social science learning resources
How it works:
- Find videos in our course that cover what you need to learn or review.
- Press play and watch the video lesson.
- Refer to the video transcripts to reinforce your learning.
- Test your understanding of each lesson with short quizzes.
- Verify you're ready by completing the Spatial Processes chapter exam.
Why it works:
- Study Efficiently: Skip what you know, review what you don't.
- Retain What You Learn: Engaging animations and real-life examples make topics easy to grasp.
- Be Ready on Test Day: Use the Spatial Processes chapter exam to be prepared.
- Get Extra Support: Ask our subject-matter experts any spatial processes question. They're here to help!
- Study With Flexibility: Watch videos on any web-ready device.
Students will review:
This chapter helps students review the concepts in a spatial processes unit of a standard human geography course. Topics covered include:
- Spatial versus temporal processes
- The study of human spatial behavior
- Spatial interaction through movement
- The diffusion of popular cultures

1. Spatial Processes: Definition & Types
How did you end up moving to where you live right now? This lesson looks at the processes of geography that helps to explain why certain physical and cultural movement occurs, such as migration and settlement patterns.

2. Behavioral Geography: Human Spatial Behavior
How do you decide whether it's worth traveling somewhere? This lesson focuses on how individuals make decisions related to spatial interactions, such as whether it's too far to travel to a place or not.

3. Spatial Interaction Through Movement: Causes & Examples
In this lesson, you'll consider how geographers examine the flow of products, information, and people. You'll also learn what spatial interaction has to do with you wanting to see your favorite group in concert.

4. Cultural Diffusion: Definition, Expansion & Popular Cultures
In this lesson, we'll use the examples of viral videos, hip hop, and yoga to explore how culture is diffused and expanded. We'll also look at how the Internet impacts our understanding of popular culture.
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Other Chapters
Other chapters within the Introduction to Human Geography: Help and Review course
- Human Geography - Cultures & Geography: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Basic Facts and Concepts of the Earth: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Geologic Time: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Plate Tectonics: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Minerals and Rocks: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Rock Deformation and Mountain Building: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Earthquakes: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Volcanoes: Help and Review
- Human Geography - The Atmosphere: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Weather and Storms: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Glaciers: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Oceans: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Weathering and Erosion: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Water Balance: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Ground Water: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Running Water: Help and Review
- Human Geography - The Geography of Languages, Religions, and Material Culture: Help and Review
- Human Geography - The Origin and Dispersal of Humans and Culture: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Effects of Population on the Environment: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Domestication of Plants and Animals: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Ethnicity & Geography: Help & Review
- Human Geography - Geography of Land Resources: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Settlement Patterns: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Modern Economic Systems: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Economics & Geography: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Political Geography: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Impacts of Humans on the Environment: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Renewable Resources: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Nonrenewable Resources: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Environmental Sustainability: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Food and Agriculture: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Solid and Hazardous Waste: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Environmental Risk Analysis: Help and Review
- Human Geography - Ethical and Political Processes of the Environment: Help and Review