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The Five Themes
Basics to Human Geography Chapter 1 - Five Themes of Geography
Question | Answer |
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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 |