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| Define: Anthropogentic |
Human-induced changes to the natural enviroment |
| Define: Cartograpgy |
Theory and practice of making visual representations of the earth's surface in the form of maps |
| Define: Cultural ecology |
The study of the interactions between socoeties and the natural enviroment they live in |
| Define: Cultural Landscape |
The human-modified natural landscape specifically containing the imprint of a particular culture or society |
| Define: Earth System Science |
System approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale |
| Define:Enviromental geography |
the intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical enviroment and vice versa |
| Who is: Eratoshenes |
a libarian at Alexendria durning the third senturay B.C., he was one of the first cartographers. Performed an accurate measurment of the earth's circumference. coined the tearm "geography" |
| Define: Spatital perspective |
observing the spatial location on earth's surface and determining why and how those things occupy their specific locations |
| Example: of a large scale map |
watershed, Ecosystem, landscape and bidome |
| Define: Functional Regions |
Nodal Regions |
| Define: Region |
an area larger then a single city that contains unifying social or physical characteristics |
| Example: of a Functional Region |
Local newspaper route, or Radio |
| Define: Formal Region |
have specific characteristics that are relativly uniform from one place to another within the region |
| Example: of a Formal Region |
Tibet, not a state with political boundries |
| Define: Perceptual regions |
exist wthin the minds of people, made up boundries |
| Example: of a Perceptual Region |
the Deep south" or "midwest" |
| Define: Idographic |
the facts or features that are unique to a place or region |
| Example: Idiographic feature |
History or ethnic composition |
| Define: Nomothetic |
concepts that are universally applicable |
| Who: W.D. Pattison |
He claimed that geography drew from four distinct traditions: the earth-science tradition, the culture-enviroment tradition, the locational tradition, adn teh area-analysis tradition |
| Who: Carl Sauer |
Geographer who defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental unit of geographical analysis. This landscape results from interaction between humans and the physical enviroment. He believed that no landscape has escaped alteration by humans |
| What: is the oldest feild of Geography |
Cartography |
Poultry
