1.5-1.7 Flashcards
The connection and exchange between humans and the natural world
Human-environment interaction
Items that occur in the natural environment that people can use
Natural resources
Natural resources that theoretically are unlimited and will not be depleted based on use by people
Renewable natural resources
Natural resources that are limited and can be exhausted by human used
Non renewable natural resources
When you try and use resources in a way that will allow their use in the future while minimizing negative impacts on the environment
Sustainability
The study of how land is utilized, modified, and organized by people
Land use
The study of how humans adapt to their environment
Cultural ecology
The belief that landforms and climate are the most powerful forces shaping human behavior and sociatel development while ignoring the influence of culture
Environmental determinism
A view that acknowledged the limits on the effect of the natural environment and focuses more on the role that human culture plays
Possibilism
The area of the world being studied, also called relative scale
Geographic scale
The scale of the entire world
Global scale
The scale of multiple countries
World regional scale
The scale of one country
National
The scale of a portion of a country or a region(s) within a country
National regional
The scale of a city, province, state, country, or neighborhood
Local scale
When grographers organize date into different scales such as by cencus,tracts,city,or county
Aggregation
Inaccurate generalizations
False conclusions
An area with boundaries, unifying characteristics, covers space, and is created by people
Region
Regions unified by one or more traits. Also called uniform regions or homogeneous regions
Formal regions
Regions organized by a focal point and are defined by an activity, usually political, social or economic, that occurs. Also called a nodal region
Functional region
Regions defined by the informal sense of place ascribed to them
Perceptual region
Regions that have been divided into smaller areas, they share characteristics with the whole region but are different in some way
Subregion
