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Types of Diffusion (AP Human Geography) Questions and Answers 2025
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Types of Diffusion (AP HumanGeography)
Diffusion - answer the spatial spreading of a culture element or phenomenon
Expansion diffusion - answer the spread of an idea through a population in a way that
the number of those influenced becomes continuously larger. Includes contagious,
hierarchical, and stimulus diffusion.
Contagious diffusion - answer Distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local
population by contact from person to person.
Hierarchical diffusion - answer an idea spreads by passing first among the most
connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals
Stimulus diffusion - answer A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created
as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place. In other words, it is
the spreading of an underlying principle of an idea when the idea as a whole cannot
spread to a particular culture.
Relocation diffusion - answerA form of diffusion where the ideas being diffused are
transmitted by their carriers as they relocate to new areas
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