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Chapter 1 Vocab 2
Human Geography People, Place and Culture 2013-2014 at Santa Fe High Mr. Hendry
Term | Definition |
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human-environment | relationship among phenomena in individual places (including the relationship between humans and the physical world). |
region | features that tend to be concentrated in particular areas (g.g. U.S.: New England, Mid-West, East coast, South, North...) |
place | uniqueness of a location. |
movement | mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet. |
sense of place | infusing a place with meaning and emotion, but remembering important events that occurred in a place, or by labeling a place with a certain character. )e.g. feeling of "home".) |
perceptions of places | developed ideas about places pleople have never been through books, movies, stories, and pictures. (NYC, Los Angeles, Paris, Alabama...) |
spatial interaction | how things are laid how and how the people in those different places exchange ideas, goods, diseases, ... or do not exchange ideas, goods, diseases... |
distances | the measurement of physical spaces between two points or places. |
accessibility | the ability for something to be gotten/achieved. The degrees to which it is easily possible to get to a certain location from other locations. This varies and can be measured. |
connectivity | how things come together or are linked between one location and another in a transport network. |
landscape | a core element of geography that refers to the material character of a place, complexity of natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form. |
cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape. (concept-- Carl Sauer, 1927, UC Berkley.) |