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Section 1
Exam 1 material/ Exam 3 Material
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is human geography | the study of people and places. Focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world |
| Human Geography | focuses on how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world |
| Geographic Questions | Why and how do things come together in certain places to produce particular outcomes? Why are some things found in certain places but not in others? How do the characteristics of particular places shape what happens? etc. |
| Geographic Questions | To what extent do things in one place influence those in other places? Why do differences across geographic space matter? What role does a place play in its region and in the world, and what does that mean for people there and elsewhere? |
| The Five Themes | Location, Human Environment, Region, Place, Movement. |
| Globalization | a set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and accelerating interdependence across nation borders. |
| Physical Geography | the study of natural environment |
| Spatial Distribution | physical location of geographic phenomena across space |
| Patterns | the design of a particular spatial distribution |
| Medical Geography | mapping distributions to find the cause of a disease |
| Pandemics | a worldwide outbreak of disease |
| Epidemic | regional outbreak of a disease |
| Spatial Perspective | observing variations in geographic phenomena across space |
| Location | highlights how geographical position of people and things on earth's surface affects what happens and why |
| Human Environment | reciprocal relationship between humans and environment |
| Region | an area on the earth's surface marked by a degree of formal, functional, or perceptual homogeneity of some phenomena |
| Place | uniqueness of a location |
| Movement | the mobility of people, goods and ideas across the surface of the planet |
| Perception of Place | where we have never been through books, movies, stories, and pictures |
| Sense of Place | infusing a place with meaning and emotion |
| Spatial interaction | the measured physical space between two places |
| Accessibility | the ease of reaching one location from another |
| Connectivity | the degree of linkage between locations in a network |
| Cultural Landscape | the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape |
| Cartography | the art and science of making maps |
| Reference Maps | shows locations of places and geographic features |
| Thematic Maps | tell stories and typically show the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomena |
| Global Positioning System | allows us to locate things on the surface of the earth with extraodinary accuracy |
| Geocaching | use of using a GPS to play a treasure hunt game all over the world |
| Relative Location | describes the location of a place in relation to other human and physical features |
| Activity Spaces | places we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity |
| Generalized Map | the map of world precipitation |
| Remote Sensing | technology that gathers data at a distance from earth's surface |
| Formal Region | can be a shared cultural trait or a physical trait |
| Functional Region | particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it |
| Perceptual Regions | intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena |
| Culture | all-encompassing term that identifies not only the whole tangible lifestyle of peoples, but also their prevailing values and beliefs. It lies at the heart of human geography |
| Culture Trait | a single attribute of a culture |
| Culture Complex | More than one culture that exhibits a particular culture trait |
| Absolute Location | Precise positioning of a place on the surface of the earth |
| Relative Location | Location of a place in relation to other places |
| Time-space Compression | Apparent compression/collapsing of distance by faster means of transportation and communication |
| Human-environment interaction | how earths environment has changed over time, how have humans impacted the earths environment, what major factors are contributing to environment, how are humans responding to environment change. |
| Place | All spaces on earth have their own combination of cultural and physical features that combine to make them unique, inscribes space as a meaningful location |
| Region | area on earths surface in which places within that area share similar characteristics. |
| Formal region | area which is homogeneous with respect to defined criteria(share characteristics) |
| Core area | clearely exemplified or found in their greatest intensity in numbers. |
| Functional Region | area that has been organized to function socially, economically, or politically, and is defined by movement in and out of a central point or focus of activity. |
| Scale | Level of geographical resolution, Local, Regional, National, Global. |
| Diffusion | spread of innovation from origin to other places. |
| Contagious Diffusion | spreads of innovation from origin to its nearest neighbor. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | spread of an innovation from origin and then filtering down. Ex: Fashion, Movies. |
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