chapter 1

Question 1

Globalization?

Answer 1

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 2

Physical Geography

Answer 2

The study of material characteristics of physical environment

Question 3

Human Geography

Answer 3

How people make places, how we organize space and society, how we make sense of others in place and across space, and how we make sense of others ourselves in our localities, regions and the world

Question 4

five themes of geography

Answer 4

Location, human-environment interactions, region, place, and movement
Location: Highlight how the geographical features postion of people and things on earth surface affects what happens and why
HEI: What did the arm corps alter floridas physical enviroment?
REgion: Instead features tend to be conentrated in patricular areas.
Place: All places on earth have unique human characteristics
Movement: Refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ideas

Question 5

Referene maps

Answer 5

Show location of places and geographic features

Question 6

Theamatic map

Answer 6

Tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomena

Question 7

Mental Maps

Answer 7

What you remember based on something u hear

Question 8

Generalized maps

Answer 8

Helps us see general trends but we cannot see all cases of a given phenomena

Question 9

Cultural Hearth

Answer 9

AN area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse

Question 10

Expansion Diffusion

Answer 10

An idea spreads outwards from a hearth while staying strong there

Question 11

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 11

when an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals.

Question 12

Stimulus Diffusion

Answer 12

When the idea spreads outwards from a hearth but the idea is changed

Question 13

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 13

Involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation and who carries it to different areas where they proceed to spread it.

Question 14

Possiblism

Answer 14

The choice that which society makes relys on its memebers needs and what technolgy is avaible to them

Question 15

Cultural Ecology

Answer 15

the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments

Question 16

Political Ecology

Answer 16

examines how and why economic structures and power relations drive environmental change in an increasingly interconnected world