Chapter 1: Intro To APHUGE Flashcards

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Arable Land

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Land that is able to be farmed

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How many people are malnourished in the world and who makes up the majority?

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1 Billion people, and majority are women and children.

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What is Human Geography?

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Human phenomena, globalization and inter connectedness, and scale.

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Spatial Perspectve

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How one looks at the world.

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Spatial Distribution

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Patterns in why things are put where they are.

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What are The five things Spatial Perspective is based on?

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Geographical Positioning, Human Environment Interactions, region, place, and movement.

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Geographical Positioning

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Wh something is where it is

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Human Environment Interactions

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The visible imprint left on the Earth by humans.

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Region

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Area with cultural similarities.

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Place

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Sense of meaning and “home”.

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Movement

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Mobility of people, goods, ideas-connectivity, and spatial interaction.

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Cultural Landscape

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Visible imprint of humanity.

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Cartography

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Study of maps

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Relative Location

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Where something is in relation to origin.

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Absolute Location

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Where something is.

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Mental Maps

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Visual maps that we create based on prior visuals.

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Scale

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Distance compared on a map compared to distance on Earth. Albo, spatial extent of something.

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Remote Sensing

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Collects information about the Earth from a distance. Ex: Google Earth.

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GIS

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Combination of spatial layers.

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Rescaling Activities

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Known as Jumping Activity

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Formal Region

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Shared cultural trait or physical trait.

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Functional Region

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Defined by activities w/ in it.

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Cultural Trait

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A single aspect of Culture.

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Cultural Complex

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A combination of traits.

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Cultural Hearth

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Start of a culture.

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Independent Innovation

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When a cultural trait is started, not adapted.

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Time-Distance Decay

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The farther away and later affects the amount of time it takes for the trait to reach it.

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Expansion Diffusion

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Where culture remains strong at hearth while diffusing outwardly.

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Contagious Diffusion

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Type of Expansion Diffusion where all are affected by the diffusion itself.

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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Spread of an idea through various channels.

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Stimulus Diffusion

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Original idea is not adapted, but still has an impact.

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Relocation Diffusion

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Innovation is carried by people rather than the innovation moving.

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Environmental Determinism

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Climate determines how successful a race will be.

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Possibilism

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The choices society makes bashed on the needs and base on what technology is available.

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Pandemic

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World-wide outbreak of disease.

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Endemic

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National outbreak of a disease.

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Landscape

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Material character of a place.

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Reference Maps

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Show locations and geographic features.

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Thematic Maps

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Shows degree of an attribute or movement of a geographic phenomenon.

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Geocaching

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International treasure hunt.

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Activity spaces

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Places we go in our daily routines.

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Culture

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Tangible lifestyle of people, and prevailing values and beliefs.