Actual test 123 IMA FUCKING KILL MYSELF STUPID BITCHES STUPID FUCKS HATE LIFE Flashcards
Fieldwork
Going out into fields and observing and stuff
Kenya
a poor country, malnourished
Human geography
focusing on how people make places and shape their land
globalization
Increasing connects of culture, economical, political,
Physical Geography
study of spatial and material characteristics of physical enviroment
Medical Geography
Getting information about the field of medicine through the geography
What did Dr John Snow do?
He mapped the cases of Cholera, a disease that causes diarrhea and found that it was a water transmitted disease
FIve themes of human geography?
Location, human environmental interaction, region, place, and movement
Location (theme)
Highlights how the geographical position of people and things on Earth’s surface affects what happens and why
Location Theory
a logical explanation for the location patterns of economic activites
Human- environmental interaction (theme)
How humans interact with the environment
Region (theme)
Distinct features that are concentrated in different areas
Place (theme)
Everywhere there is a distinct trait
Sense of trait
Infusing a place with emotion and meaning
because of this we can have a feeling of home
Perception of places
A place we have never been to yet we have a general understanding because of the books, movies and stuff that we watch.
Movement (theme)
the mobility of people, goods and ideas
landscape
Refers to the material characteristics of a place
Cultural landscape
the visible human imprint on the landscape. Most geographers are concerned about this
Sequent occupance
The group that continues to arrive to a place and bring their tech and stuff
Cartography
art and science of making maps
Reference maps
Show locations and geographic features.
Show the absolute location of places
Thematic maps
Displays spatial patterns of places and uses quantitative data
GPS
Global positioning system, more of a tells you where to go
gives absolute location
relative location
describes the location of the place in relation to other human and physical features
“chicago is on lake michigan south of Milwaukee.”
absolute location
the empire state building is located at 40.1 blah blah blah
Mental maps
Maps in our head, can be places we been or places we heard of
Activity spaces
places we have been
Terra incognita
Driving pass a school u never been to know the location but dont know the details
Generalized maps
see general trends
GIS
Geographic information systems gives data about a place doesnt rilly give absolute locaiton however it shows trends
What are the sccales
local regional national global
we see different patterns at each scale
Formal Region
has a shared trait, either physical or cultural. a predominate trait
In a formal region people share one or more cultural traits.
Uniform
specific attributes
rocky mountains
Functional region
also known as nodal regions
organzied around a node (or center point)
Perceptual Region
Things that they think based on their accumlated knowledge
Cultural trait
a single attribute of a culture
Culture complex
a distinct combination of cultural traits
cultural hearth
a place wgere a cultural trait develops and from which cultural traits diffuse
Time distance decay
the farther away something is the less communication
Expansion Diffusion
An innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while spreading outwards
hierarchical diffusion
Diffuses from the ppl with most connections
Contagious diffsuion
Spreads from person to person
Stimulus diffusion
when an idea diffuses outwards but tweaked
Relocaition diffsuion
People spreading the idea based on where they move
Environmental Determinism
Human behavior is strongly affected even controlled by the physical environment
Possiblism
humans can adapt with tech
Politcal ecology
the politics ruining enviroment
Demography
The study of population in general perspective
Population density
Total population relative to land size
Arithmetic Population Density
total number of people divided by total area of place