chapt 1 test

Question 0

why is malnutrition a problem in kenya?

Answer 0

• colonial impact of growing coffee and tea
• foreign owned lands
• globalization

Question 1

what are the 3 main reasons for malnutrition

Answer 1

• poverty
• failure of food distribution systems
• cultural practices that favor males over females

Question 2

how did human geography emerge as a field of study?

whats the four traditions in geography

Answer 2

william pattison
• human ecology
• regional geography
• physical geography
• human geography

Question 3

what are the five themes?

Answer 3

location place region movement human-enviroment

Question 4

what were pattisons other two fields of geographic study?

Answer 4

regional geography: looking at each area of the world individually
physical geography: earth- science , climate , landforms

Question 5

what is a model?

Answer 5

a simplified and generalized version of real events in order to facilitate an understanding of its workings

Question 6

what are key concepts in geographic thinking?

Answer 6

location - absolute vs relative, site, situation
space
place
scale
pattern
regionalization
globalization

Question 7

examples of space

Answer 7

• where is the population growth
• what factors contribute to who the US trades or those we do not
• what areas of the world are expending human settlement
• location affect culture, economic activities, and politics

Question 8

what is contagious and what is an example

Answer 8

nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected (islam relgion)

Question 9

what is hierarchical and give an example

Answer 9

there is a specific connection to the spread of the triat (crocs)

Question 10

what is stimulus and give and example?

Answer 10

veggie burgers im india(dont eat beef)

Question 11

what is distance decay?

Answer 11

increase im transportation, technology, and communications leads to more connectivity

Question 12

who wrote an article about human impact on physical landscapes

Answer 12

carl sauer

Question 13

who coined the phrase “sequent occupancy” referring to a layering effect people have on places

Answer 13

derwent whittlesey

Question 14

how can scale distort information?

Answer 14

depending on the scale you use, you can see different things

Question 15

what are examples of patterns?

Answer 15

concentrated, dispersed, geometric, clustard

Question 16

regionalization is the process of

Answer 16

categorizing places

Question 17

what are the three types of regions?

Answer 17

formal
functional
perceptual or vernacular

Question 18

what are perceptual or vernacular regions?

Answer 18

regions based on perceptuons of people

Question 19

each place is affected by and each place reflects the culture of the ppl in that place over time

Answer 19

each place is affected by and each place reflects the culture of the ppl in that place over time

Question 20

why are maps so important?

Answer 20

its good to have a working understanding of the physical word to be able to answer important questions

Question 21

who is ron johnston, peter taylor, and michael watts?

Answer 21

jj

Question 22

who said the def of geography was “why of where”

Answer 22

marvin mikesell

Question 23

who founded the disease chlorea thag spreaded around india?

Answer 23

john snow

Question 24

peter gould and rodney

Answer 24

jj

Question 25

who explained that our human landscape is our unwitting autobiography, reflecting our tastes, our values, aspirations, and fears, in tangible, visible form in Axioms for reading the Landscape?

Answer 25

Pierce Lewis

Question 26

who analyzed the probability of dengue fever outbreaks im hawaii using GIS?

Answer 26

geographer korine kolivras

Question 27

who uses the term jumping scale to describe rescaling compares show regions view products?

Answer 27

victoria lawson

Question 28

who defined culture saying its the result of social intervention and is transmitted and maintained thru communicatiom and learning

Answer 28

e adamson hoebet

Question 29

who advanced his views the interpretations of culture?

Answer 29

clifford geertz

Question 30

who was the founder of crocs the shoes

Answer 30

scott seamans

Question 31

who published pioneering research on the role of time im the diffusion process?

Answer 31

torsten hä gerstrand