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Human Geography
Chapter 1- Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did New Orleans founders decide that the advantages of the location's situation outweighed the disadvantages of its site | |
| Identify and explain the reason why it's important to sustain the Okavanago river basin | It's a major water source for many things including humans, and if it dries up then there would be no more water for anyone |
| what is scale? | the area of the world being studied |
| local scale advantages | a lot detail, focuses on a specific area |
| local scale disadvantages | can't see the big picture, might be too small of an area to solve a problem |
| regional scale advantages | show patterns in a larger space, easier to compare places |
| regional scale disadvantages | less detailed, harder to see a specific place |
| national scale advantages | shows patterns across the whole country, can compare different parts of country |
| national scale disadvantages | less detail about a specific place |
| global scale advantages | shows patterns around the whole world, compares different countries |
| global scale disadvantages | not a lot of detail, can miss differences between countries or regions |
| why do geographers use different scales? | a framework for understanding how events and processes influence one another |
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