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Introduction to Geography.

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Kenya is in Eastern Africa, economy is   mostly all tea and coffee are planted.  
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Hunger is a major problem for who   entire world  
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One-sixth of the world’s population is   starving, with no food.  
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1 billion of the poor’s are   women, and children, because they have little power, and money.  
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A major cause of starvation is   poverty, not having enough money to buy food, failure of food distribution systems, and cultural practices, which men have more power over women.  
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Poverty caused by   taxes, paying rent, buying a home, and taking care of children  
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4% of Norway and 70% of Bangladesh has   arable land.  
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Norway is wealthy, and well fed, in which Bangladesh is   poor  
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The Norwegians can import food, but for the Bangladeshis,   two-thirds of their country is flooded because of the monsoon.  
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8% of Kenya land is arable, but w. highlands are most productive agricultural in the world   Globalized economy, tiny farms  
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Those in the western highlands of Kenya own some sort of   coffee or tea corporations  
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Mostly Kenya women work in the fields, because   women’s cannot own fields  
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Kenya needed foreign income and takes part in   tourism, exporting tea, and coffee exporting  
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Kenya economy looks like this   Globalized economy, tiny farms  
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Kenya cannot solve poverty b/c   switching to cash crops destroys peoples’ economy  
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Vocab: Fieldwork   Observe what people are doing & Observe how their reactions vary across space  
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Human Geography   how people make places, organize space and society, and make sense of everyone in locality, region, and world  
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Brings traits together makes   diverse places  
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Effects of Globalization   Increases interactions, deepening relationships, and increases interdependence  
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Vocab: Globalization   Explains the local, regional, and the global-all affect each other without regard to country borders  
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All parts of world are affected by   globalization and human action  
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Geographic questions look to answer   Physical geography, Physical phenomena  
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Explain the “why of where”   why do things happen where they are, how does it influence other places  
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Spatial distribution   how things are laid out, organized, and arranged on the Earth, and how they appear on the landscape  
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Spatial Distribution   Also describes patterns and relationships of the distributions  
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Spread of Cholera   to China, Japan, E. Africa, and Europe in 1816, 1826-1837, and 1842-1862  
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Dr. Snow specialized in   medical geography to define the cholera pandemic  
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Dr. Snow plots map of cholera victims and they congest around   Street pump  
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Dr. Snow gives order to remove...   handle from pump and cholera victims fall dramatically  
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Cholera still present...   in refugee camps of Africa and Asia, with outbreak in Europe in 1972, and epidemic Lima, Peru, in December 1990, that killed 10,000  
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Spatial Perspective   Used to identify and classify change over time  
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5 Themes made by   National Geographic Society in 1986  
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FIVE THEMES   location, place,human environment, movement, region  
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location theory   logical attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated  
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sense of place   state of mind derived from the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events  
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perception of places   belief or "understanding" about a place developed through books, movies, stories or pictures  
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spatial interaction   depends on the distances among places, the accessibility of places and the transportation and communication connectivity  
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landscape   refers to the materical character of a place, the complex nature features, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form  
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cultural landscape   visible imprint of human activity on the landscape  
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sequent occupance   cultural succession and its lasting imprint  
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cartography   art and science of making maps  
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absolute location   longitude and latitude  
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relative location   a place in relation to other human and physical features  
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geocaching   a hunt for a cache whose coordinates are places on the Internet for other geocachers  
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mental maps   maps we carry in our minds  
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reference maps   show locations of places and geographic features  
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thematic maps   tell stories  
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All maps help to   simplify the world  
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Generalize   make broader and easier to understand.  
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Purpose of shading of maps   show how much or how little of some phenomena can be found on part of the Earth’s surface  
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Areas shaded in the most vibrant green are places that receive the most...   rain  
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The moistest areas other than South Asia and South East Asia are clustered against what shore?   Atlantic  
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Remote Sensing   A method of collecting data or information through the use of instruments that are physically distant from the area or object of study.  
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Remotely sensed data are collected by   satellites and aircraft and are almost instantaneously available.  
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Geographic Information Systems(GIS)   A collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, retrieved, manipulated, analyzed, and displayed to the user.  
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Geographers use GIS for   applications in human and physical geographic research.  
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Data gathered by agencies can be integrated into a GIS and then analyzed   spatially.  
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GIS can be used for   intelligence, interpret data, and make recommendations on issues of homeland security defense  
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Geographic Information Science   Emerging research field concerned with studying the development and use of geospatial concepts and techniques to examine geographic patterns and processes.  
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Geographers study places and patterns with local, regional, national, and global...   scales  
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Scale   Distance on a map compared to distance on Earth  
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Context of maps looks different at different...   scales  
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Scale   The territorial extent of something  
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Jumping scales   used by Victoria Lawson to describe rescaling  
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Region   Constitutes an area that shares similar characteristics  
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Geographers use regions for   analytic purposes  
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Formal region   physical criteria and cultural traits  
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Functional region   spatial system, boundaries defined by the limits of that system  
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Ex of Functional region   Newspaper service  
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Perceptual region   based on impressions that we get from other cultures  
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Ex of Perceptual   regionIraq is portrayed to us as a war zone because of what we see in the media  
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Ex of Formal region   area in Europe where 90% of the people speak French  
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Relocation Diffusion   Involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation, and who carry it to a new, perhaps distant, locale, where they proceed to disseminate it. (Occurs most frequently through migration)  
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Ex of Relocation Diffusion   Immigrants develop ethnic neighborhoods in their new country in order to maintain their culture  
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Geographic concept   Ways of seeing the world spatially that are used by geographers in answering research questions. (Relative location, Absolute location, mental maps, diffusion, sense of place, and cultural landscape)  
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Geographers use remote sensing, fieldwork, GIS, GPS, and qualitative/quantitative techniques to explore   linkages among people and places to explain differences across people, places, scales, and times  
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Environmental Determinism   The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. (climate is critical factor in how humans behave)  
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Climate and the Energy of Nations(1974)   Written by Sidney Markham, thought that by tracing the migration of the center of power in the Mediterranean, he could detect the changing climates of that part of Europe  
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Isotherms   lines connecting points of equal temperature values  
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Possibilism   A viewpoint that holds that human decision making and technology, not the environment, is the crucial factor in cultural development.  
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Trend of Possibilism and Environmental Determinism in modern day geography   possibilism is being more widely accepted and environmental determinism is being discredited.  
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Cultural Ecology   An area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to environment  
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Political Ecology   An area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominant political-economic arrangements and understandings.  
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Cultural geography is a subset of human geography   looks at the ways culture is implicated in the full spectrum of topics addressed in human geography.  
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