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Chapter 1 Vocab 1
Human Geography People, Place and Culture 2013-2014 at Santa Fe High Mr. Hendry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Globalization | process that increases interaction, deepens relationship, and heightens interdependence w/o through to country borders |
| physical geography | study of physical phenomena on Earth |
| human geography | study of human phenomena on Earth )language, religion, identity, landform, climate, environmental change.) |
| spatial | arrangemnt of places and phenomena, how they are laid out, organized, and arranged on Earth, and how they appear on the landscape |
| spatial distribution | how something is laid out across space. |
| pattern | design of spatial distribution |
| medical geography | mapping the distribution of a disease in order to find its cause. (e.g. Cholera Map in Soho London, 1854, Dr. John Snow) |
| pandemic | a world wide outbreak of a disease. |
| epidemic | a regional outbreak of a disease |
| spational perspective | looking at how things are laid out. Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. |
| 5 Themes of Geography | location, human, environment, region, place movement |
| location | the geographic position of people and things on the earth's surface and how they affect what happens and why |