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Unit 1 APHG
Geography its nature and perspectives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fieldwork | People going into the field and they observe what other people do. Example:watching something |
| Human geography | How we organize and make the place we inhabit. Example:Earth |
| Globalization | Processes which increase interactions,relationships, and interdependence. Example:world allinaces |
| Physical Geography | The study of physical phenomenon. Example:mountains |
| Medical Geography | Mapping the spread of disease. Examples:Cholera |
| Pandemic | World wide outbreak of a disease. Example:contagion |
| Epidemic | An outbreak in a certain region. Example:Iraq |
| Five themes of Geography | Location,human envirnment,region,movement, and place. Example:A five fingered hand |
| Location theory | Questions about village spacing. Example:Different villages |
| Sense of place | Infuse a place with emotion and feeling. Example:Your house |
| Perception of place | Bias for ones home region. Example:Illinois |
| Accessibility | How accessible things are. Example:Access granted |
| Connectivity | The communication of one place to another. Example:A telephone |
| Cultural landscape | Imprint on human activity on a landscape. Example:A man made river |
| Sequent occupance | The lasting imprint of something. Example:Stone henge |
| Reference maps | Maps show locations of places and icons. Example:Eiffel tower |
| Thematic maps | Maps tell stories, shows degree of an attribute. Example:The migration of birds |
| GPS | Global positioning system, locates things on the earth's surface. Example:A GPS |
| Geocaching | Find a coordinate on a map by a geocoach. Example: A map from start to finish |
| Mental maps | Maps you carry in your mind. Example:How to get to your house from work |
| Activity spaces | Your daily routine. Example:Home from work then back to home |
| GIS | Geographic information system, used to make maps. Example:A map of south america |
| Remote sensing | Observe earths surface from a distance. Example:A sattelite |
| Formal region | A place marked by something visible. Example:Chernobyl |
| Perceptual region | Used to help us understand human geography. Example:A human geography book |
| Functional region | Interactions of movements. Example:movements of people compared to cows |
| Culture trait/complex | The comparison of two traits/what a culture has. Example:The clothes people were |
| Cultural hearth | Were cultural traits develop. Example:Middle east=turban |
| Distance decay | The time it takes the trait to leave the hearth. Example:Crocs |
| Cultural barriers | Traits that are not accepted by other cultures. Example:Indians and beef |
| Contagious diffusion | Based primarily on the spread of disease. Example:cholera |
| Hierarchical diffusion | Primarily the spread of clothes. Example:Fedoras(the hat) |
| Stimulus diffusion | Rate the diffusion is adopted by other culture. Example:Indians and the veggie burger |
| Relocation diffusion | The movement of actual people. Example:The pilgrims going from England to America |
| Environmental determinism | Human activity is controlled by the environment. Example:The principles of human geography |
| isotherms | Lines connecting points of equal temperature. Example:A line connecting two points that temperature is 80 degrees |
| Possibilism | The environment only limits the choices a culture has. Example:Natural made blockades |
| Cultural ecology | An inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to the environment. Example:bow and arrow used for hunting |
| Political ecology | The consequence on the environment by large companies. Example:The dumping of toxic waste |
| Anthropogenic | Human induced changes on the natural environment. Example:a bridge |
| Cognitive map | Maps that guide peoples behavior. Example:you hearing something bad about your surroundings |
| Geoid | Projecting Earth's three dimensional in a rocky bumpy form. Example: A 3D map |
| Peter's projection | An equal area projection. Example:centering on a certain country and comparing it to america |
| Site | Refers to the cultural and physical features of a place. Example:the features of jamaica |
| Azimuthal projection | Projections that is planar. Example:the actual map |
| Carl Sauer | Geographer who defined cultural landscape and fundamental unit |
| Choropleth maps | use colors to represent categories for a given region |
| Complomentarity | How much one place can supply something that another place needs. |
| Idiographic | Facts or features that are unique to a particular place. |
| Ptolemy | When you measure the circumference of the earth incorrectly. |
| Situation | A places relationship to another place around it. |
| Eratosthenes | A cartographer who computated the circumference of the earth using the sun. |
| Intervening opportunity | A nearer opportunity that makes farther things look less attractive. |
| Resolution | A maps smallest unit. |
| Topographic maps | Maps that use isolines to represent elevation. |
| Fuller projection | Accurate in size and shape but rearranges direction. |
| Mercator projection | Accurate direction but distorts landmass |
| Robinson projection | An attempt to balance projection errors. |
| Globalization | Helps are relationships with countries grow stronger. |
| Networks | A set of interconnected codes. |
| Global cities | All major cities on earth. |
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