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What is Human Geography? | The study of how people make places. The spatial expression of Human interaction within the environment. |
What is globalization? | The interconnectedness of of world, interdependence between countries. |
What does Geography study? | Why something happens in a spatial perspective. What effect space has on activities. Etc. |
Spatial Perspective | How something is distributed across space |
Five themes of geography | Location, Place, Regions, Human Environment, movement |
Location | How where people and things on the Earth's surface affects what happens and why. |
Human Environment | How people are affecting the landscape and how the landscape |
Region | Area with shared characteristics. Ex: Rocky Mountains of North America |
Place | Abstract space that has been transformed into a noteworthy location due to a set of unique characteristics. Ex: beach, mountains, Hollywood) |
Movement | Refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ieas across the surface of the planet. |
Movement depends upon | Distance among, accessibility of and connectivity (communications) amount places. |
Sequent Occupance | Referes to sucession and its lasting imprint |
Reference Maps | Show locations of places and geographic features. I.e. road map. ABSOLUTE location. |
Thematic Maps | Tell a story about the degree of an attribute the pattern of its distribution or its movement. RELATIVE locations. I.e Map of STD concentration |
Mental Maps | Map in the mind made of place we have been and places we have heard of. |
GIS | Geographic Information Systems-COllection of computer hardware and software that stores and analyzes layers of spatial data. |
Remote Sensing - | A method of collecting data about the Earth's surface, not being in contact with earth. i.e. photos from satellites |
2 meanings of Scale in Geography | 1. Scale is a distance on a map compared to distance on the Earth.
2. Scale is the territorial extent of something. |
Scale | Ratio of map distance to earth distance. |
Small scale - | Shows a large area with few details, like a map of the world. Ex: 1:100,000 |
Large Scale | Shows a small area with LOTS of details, like a map of campus or Manhattan. Ex: 1:24,000 |
Region | An area that shares similar characteristics. |
Formal Region | Defined by a set of social. political or economic activities or the interactions that occur within it. i.e. school districts, voting regions |
Perceptual Region | Based on accumulated knowledge about regions and cultures. i.e. the coast, the midwest |