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| Five Themes of Geography |
Place, Region, Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Spatial Interaction or movement |
| Place |
the description of what and how we see and experience a certain aspect of the Earth's surface |
| Place |
reflects a perception of uniqueness of a location |
| Sense of Place |
infusing a place with meaning and emotion, but remembering important events that occurred in a place |
| Sense of Place |
labeling a place with a certain character |
| Perception of Places |
belief or understanding about a place |
| Perception of Places |
is developed through books, movies, stories, or pictures |
| Region |
links places together through the common threads in the landscape |
| Region |
can be used to pull different places together |
| Corn Belt |
midwestern portion of the United States is characterized by its dependence on agriculture where the main crop is corn. |
| Bible Belt |
southern portion of the US where the presence of evangelical christians is prominent |
| Three Types of Regions |
formal, functional, perceptual/vernacular |
| Formal Region |
region where anything and everything inside has the same characteristic or phenomena - homogeneity |
| Formal Region |
where the people share one or more cultural traits - food, belief system, dress, dances, hair styles, language |
| Formal Region |
Germany = has a defined political boundary with sovereignty in which inside the people share cultural traits that make them all Germans |
| Formal Region |
Corn Belt - has one perdominant crop in the region which is corn |
| Functional Region |
the center is the most intense but it loses the characteristics the farther distance is from the focal point |
| Functional Region |
the product of interactions of movement of various kinds |
| Functional Region |
ex radio station |
| Functional Region |
a city - has a sorrounding region in which the workers commute from the downtown area to subsidiary centers |
| Distance Decay |
sphere of influence is reduced as the distance increases |
| Distance Decay |
mall - people who live closer more often frequent the mall than those who live farther |
| Perceptual/Vernacular Region |
intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography |
| Perceptual/Vernacular Region |
exist primarily in an individual's perception or feelings |
| Zelinsky's Article |
North America's Vernacular regions |
| Location |
theme that geographer's use in their analysis of the Earth |
| Location |
the geographic position of people and things on the Earths surface and how they affect what happens and why |
| Relative Location |
giving their location in reference to another feature on the Earth's surface |
| Reference Point |
the feature that is used in reference to one's location |
| Absolute Location |
the position of a certain item on the surface of the Earth as expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude |
| Absolute Location |
an exact point |
| Site |
the absolute location of a place described by local releif, landforms, and other cultural or physical characteristics |
| Site |
refers to the internal physical characteristics of a place |
| Poor Site |
New Orleans - due to the human habitation is prone to flooding |
| Situation |
the relative location of a place in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the sorrounding area and the connections and interdependencies within that system |
| Good Situation |
New Orleans- being on the base of the Mississippi river which has enabled its growth |
| Human Environment Interaction |
theme that describes how people modify or alter the environment to fit individual or societal needs |
| Human Environment Interaction |
Las Vegas, Nevada - uilt in the middle of the desert humans have modified the environment around Las Vegas to provide enough water to meet the needs of the city |
| Five Toos |
when taken to the extreme makes land uninhabitable |
| Five Toos |
too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too hilly |
| Spacial Interaction |
how well an area is connected to the world determines its importance |
| Poor Spacial Interaction |
has lack of transportation connections |
| High Spacial Interaction |
New York City - various transportation systems |
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