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Globalization processes

Pros

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Increase interaction
deepening relationships
more independence with no regard to country’s borders

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Human geography is how we

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Make places
organize society
interact with each other across space
make sense of others and ourselves by locality our region in the world

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Globalization outcomes

Cons

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UnEvenly distributed
Wealth varying across scales
difference in manifested throughout the world

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Versions of globalization and their components

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  1. 1countires
  2. 2companies
  3. 3 Indivisual
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Spatial arrangement is

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Human organization of communities and nations and Networks

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Spatial perspective

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Observing variations in geographic phenomenon across space

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Spatial distribution

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Physical location of Jurassic phenomena across space

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Spatial behavior

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Why people populate certain places

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Five themes of geography

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Location 
human environment interaction 
region 
place 
movement
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A persons Sense of place

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Are the human characteristics meaning and emotion

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Perception of place

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Based on books and movies and

more physical

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Movement definition

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Interconnection between places depending on distance accessibility connectivity

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Formal region

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Common characteristics the physical and cultural

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Example of formal region

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The areas of France Belgium Switzerland

All French speaking

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Functional region

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Have shared political social and economic purpose

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Example of a functional region

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Cities or suburbs

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Perceptual region

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Ideas in our mind based on stereotypes

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Perceptual region example

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Where the south is to some people

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Cultural landscape

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Visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

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Sample of cultural landscape

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Buildings artifacts

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What did carol saur do

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He studied cultural landscapes and came up with something

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Sequent occupants

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Layers of imprint to the cultural landscape reflecting years of human activity

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What is the example of sequent occupants

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The Berlin wall

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What is diffusion

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The process of spreading ideas are in the patient from it’s hard to other areas

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Factors that slow with defusion

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Time distance delay

cultural barriers

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Expansion diffusion

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Spread outward from a central point

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Contagious diffusion

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Spreads from one person to the next

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Hierarchal diffusion

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Spreads to linked people or places first

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Hierarchal diffusion examples

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Hip-hop spreading

Fashion trend spreading

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Stimulus diffusion

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Promotes local experiment or change

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Example of stimulus diffusion

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The falafel burger in India

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What is human geography

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Study of people and places

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The field of human geography focuses on

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How people make places
organize spaces
society
Interact with others

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What is globalization

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Interaction between people and ideas spread and globally

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W what do scales Tell us

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Details for local regional and national market

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Two types of phenomena geographers study

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Human and physical

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To understand spatial perspective you must look at the

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Arrangement

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What did John snow do and help stop

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Stop the spread of cholera by mapping victims

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And example of location

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I villagers are where they are

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Example of human environment interaction and

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Why The Everglades being drained in Florida

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Region definition

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Concentrate similar features close together

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place destination

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The human and physical characteristics of a location

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Examples of place

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What differentiates Antarctica and the South Pole

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Movement example

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Trip to Mecca

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Movement definition

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Mobility of peoples goods ideas is across the surface of the planet

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Refrance Maps show

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Locations of places with geographic features

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Theatric maps show

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Attributes or movement of geographic phenomenon

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Thematic map example

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Hurricane tracker

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Are most accurate mental maps of places come from

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Activity spaces

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Activity spaces are

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e space where daily activity occurs

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Absolute location

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Using longitude and latitude a precise address

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Relative location

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Location based on things or places around it

Changes over time

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Generalize Maps help us

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See general chance but cannot see all of the given phenomena

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1:24000

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Written scale

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Remote-sensing

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Gathering data at a distance from the earth surface

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What is GIS stand for

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Global information systems

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Examples of how GIS is used

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For voting results

and population movement

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What’s rescale

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Using other skills to generate support for position or initiative

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Culture

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Peoples lifestyles values and beliefs

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Culture trait example

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Wearing a turban

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Cultural complex

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Combination of culture traits

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Cultural hearth

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Where cultural traits developed and diffuse

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Example of cultural hearth

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Mecca to Muslim

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Who did research on the role of time in diffusion

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Torsten hägerstrand

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Cultural ecology

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Concerned with the culture of the system or alteration of the environment

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What was the environmental determinism. Theory

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That natural environment controls and influences our cultural development

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What’s scholars supported the environments theory

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Huntington and crushing

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Possiblism

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Humans control culture not environmental

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Current research is focuses on

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Spatial organization of humanity which is cultural geography

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