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Human Geography
Chapter 1- Part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why is it important to have a rich diversity of species on Earth? | It helps keep our water clean and stabilize our climate and contributes to food security |
| What is geography? | an intergrative discipline that brings together the physical and human dimensions of the world in the study of people, places, and environments |
| what is physical geography? | the study of the natural processes and the distribution of features in the environment such as landforms, plants, animals, and climate |
| what is human geography? | the study of the events and processes that have been shaped and how humans understand, use, and alter earth |
| What are the 3 ways geographers differentiate geography from other fields in the physical and social sciences? | Geographers focus on the relationship between humans and environments, recognizes the importance of where events and phenomenons occur focusing on how processes vary depending on location, and they focus on geographic scales. |
| What is spatial perspective? | where something might be located and why it is located there. where something occurs |
| what is the ecological perspective? | the relationship between living things and their environments |
| where? | the starting point for any geographic inquiry |
| why there? | geographers get pushed to analyze the reasons behind processes and interaction |
| why care? | helps them establish the importance and relevance of their inquiries |
| location | the position that at point or object occupies earth |
| example of location | Chicago |
| absolute location | the exact location of an object |
| example of absolute location | 47.50 degrees N, 19.04 E |
| relative location | a description of where a place is in relation to other places or features |
| example of relative location | Palatine is about 30 miles northwest of Chicago |
| place | a location on Earth that is distinguished by its physical and human chararcteriscs |
| how is place different from location? | place stands out from characteristics it has and location is just something that takes up space on Earth |
| what does it mean to have a "strong sense of place" | referring to the emotions attached to an area based on their personal experiences |
| how a place can change? | the world is constantly evolving and different things are going to happen over time |
| what is a mental map? why and when would you use it? | Internalized representations of portions of Earth's surface. Its used to navigate around and save time. Its used everyday for daily routines or giving directions |
| site factor | a place's absolute location as well as it physical characteristics |
| site factor example | landforms, climate, resources |
| situation factor | a place's location in relation to other places or its surrounding features |
| situation factor examples | transportation routes, political associations, economic and cultural ties |
| what is space? | the area between two or more things on Earth's surface |
| what is distributed? | the way things are arranged within a given space |
| density | the number of things- people, animals, or objects, in a specific area |
| example of density | Manila, Davao del Sur |
| pattern | how things are arranged in a particular space |
| example of pattern | grid systems, car traffic |
| environmental determinism | a theory that argues that human behavior is largely controlled by the physical environment |
| environmental determinism example | farming, not credible because most countries can't sdo what it say |
| possibilism | a theory that argues that humans have more agency or ability to produce a result than environmental determinism would suggest |
| possibilism example | building dams, credible because technology can overcome nature |
| sustainability | the use of earth's land and natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future |
| distance decay | a principle that says that the farther away one thing is from another, the less interactions those two things will have |
| friction of distance | a concept that states that distance requires time, effort, an cost to overcome |
| time-space compression | a geographical principle that describes the processes causing the relative distance between places to shrink |
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ElizabethC117