Chapter 1 Flashcards
Globalization processes
Pros
Increase interaction
deepening relationships
more independence with no regard to country’s borders
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
Globalization outcomes
Cons
UnEvenly distributed
Wealth varying across scales
difference in manifested throughout the world
Versions of globalization and their components
- 1countires
- 2companies
- 3 Indivisual
Spatial arrangement is
Human organization of communities and nations and Networks
Spatial perspective
Observing variations in geographic phenomenon across space
Spatial distribution
Physical location of Jurassic phenomena across space
Spatial behavior
Why people populate certain places
Five themes of geography
Location human environment interaction region place movement
A persons Sense of place
Are the human characteristics meaning and emotion
Perception of place
Based on books and movies and
more physical
Movement definition
Interconnection between places depending on distance accessibility connectivity
Formal region
Common characteristics the physical and cultural
Example of formal region
The areas of France Belgium Switzerland
All French speaking
Functional region
Have shared political social and economic purpose
Example of a functional region
Cities or suburbs
Perceptual region
Ideas in our mind based on stereotypes
Perceptual region example
Where the south is to some people
Cultural landscape
Visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
Sample of cultural landscape
Buildings artifacts
What did carol saur do
He studied cultural landscapes and came up with something
Sequent occupants
Layers of imprint to the cultural landscape reflecting years of human activity
What is the example of sequent occupants
The Berlin wall
What is diffusion
The process of spreading ideas are in the patient from it’s hard to other areas
Factors that slow with defusion
Time distance delay
cultural barriers
Expansion diffusion
Spread outward from a central point
Contagious diffusion
Spreads from one person to the next
Hierarchal diffusion
Spreads to linked people or places first
Hierarchal diffusion examples
Hip-hop spreading
Fashion trend spreading
Stimulus diffusion
Promotes local experiment or change
Example of stimulus diffusion
The falafel burger in India
What is human geography
Study of people and places
The field of human geography focuses on
How people make places
organize spaces
society
Interact with others
What is globalization
Interaction between people and ideas spread and globally
W what do scales Tell us
Details for local regional and national market
Two types of phenomena geographers study
Human and physical
To understand spatial perspective you must look at the
Arrangement
What did John snow do and help stop
Stop the spread of cholera by mapping victims
And example of location
I villagers are where they are
Example of human environment interaction and
Why The Everglades being drained in Florida
Region definition
Concentrate similar features close together
place destination
The human and physical characteristics of a location
Examples of place
What differentiates Antarctica and the South Pole
Movement example
Trip to Mecca
Movement definition
Mobility of peoples goods ideas is across the surface of the planet
Refrance Maps show
Locations of places with geographic features
Theatric maps show
Attributes or movement of geographic phenomenon
Thematic map example
Hurricane tracker
Are most accurate mental maps of places come from
Activity spaces
Activity spaces are
e space where daily activity occurs
Absolute location
Using longitude and latitude a precise address
Relative location
Location based on things or places around it
Changes over time
Generalize Maps help us
See general chance but cannot see all of the given phenomena
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Written scale
Remote-sensing
Gathering data at a distance from the earth surface
What is GIS stand for
Global information systems
Examples of how GIS is used
For voting results
and population movement
What’s rescale
Using other skills to generate support for position or initiative
Culture
Peoples lifestyles values and beliefs
Culture trait example
Wearing a turban
Cultural complex
Combination of culture traits
Cultural hearth
Where cultural traits developed and diffuse
Example of cultural hearth
Mecca to Muslim
Who did research on the role of time in diffusion
Torsten hägerstrand
Cultural ecology
Concerned with the culture of the system or alteration of the environment
What was the environmental determinism. Theory
That natural environment controls and influences our cultural development
What’s scholars supported the environments theory
Huntington and crushing
Possiblism
Humans control culture not environmental
Current research is focuses on
Spatial organization of humanity which is cultural geography
