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World Regional Geo 1

World Regional Geography Dual Credit

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What is the study of Geography? The study of people, place, environment, and space
What 2 things does World Geography incorporate? Physical and Human Geography
What is HUMAN geography ? The study of people, culture, and the shaping of place and environment.
What is PHYSICAL geography? The analysis of people, place ,space to study Earths environment
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations.
What are the two ways scale is used? 1.To explain the relationship between the distance on a map and distance on Earth. 2.To analyze the scope of Earth.
What 2 things does World Geography incorporate? Physical and Human Geography
What is HUMAN geography ? The study of people, culture, and the shaping of place and environment.
What is PHYSICAL geography? The analysis of people, place ,space to study Earths environment
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations.
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations.
What is the similarity between HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY? Both study reciprocal relationships(Human and physical-environment relations.
What is space? The abstract boundless set of connections and construction of relations where processes occur.
What is place? The uniqueness of a location.
What is scale? The geographical scope(Local, national, or global) in which we analyze and understand a phenomenon)
What are the two ways scale is used? 1.To explain the relationship between the distance on a map and distance on Earth. 2.To analyze the scope of the Earth(local, national, or global)
What is a TRADITIONAL region? Naturally occurring areas of similarity
What is a MODERN region? An area determined by a combination of PHYSICAL and CULTURAL
Who defines region? And why? Governments, corporations, and international organizations. To build relations for economic purposes
What do regions reflect? The social, political, and economic processes weaving through places and across different people.
What is a formal region? An area of land made by CULTURAL or PHYSICAL means.
What is a functional region? An area that has a shared political, economic purpose.
What is a perceptual region? What an individual sees in their mind?
What is relocation diffusion? When people take ideas and innovations from their homeland with them.
What are the two categories of expansion diffusion? 1. Contiguous diffusion 2. hierarchical diffusion
What is Contiguous diffusion? Is when ideas and innovations spread from the hearth to nearby places and people FIRST.
What is hierarchical diffusion? When ideas are spread to IMPORTANT places(empires, governments etc.) skipping over people/ places in-between.
When was globalization established? Between 1500 and 1950
What is cartography? The art and science of making maps.
What are the two categories of cartography? Reference maps- shows location Thematic maps-tells a story of data
What is represented in a Reference map Absolute locations.
What is represented in a Thematic map Relative locations.
What is a GIS(Geographic Information System)? A computer map that stores a lot of data used for spatial analysis
What is a remote sensing system. A computer map that uses satellites to show any changes in an environment.
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