Chapter One geography Flashcards
What happened in settings?
important events happen, and it is from them that significant changes spread and diffuse.
Why geography is important?
because specific places provide the settings for people’s daily lives
What’s the relationship between places and region?
Interdependent
Which two aspects are provided by scale?
Global and local.
What relationship between nature culture and individual human activities?
Interrelated force
What is the products of culture nature and individual human activities?
Place region special relationships
One of the low of geography. What is one aspect of this low?
everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Distance
Why connectivity is important？
contact and interaction are dependent on channels of communication and transportation
What r the 8 fundamental concept of geography
Scale place Location region space distance accessibility
special interaction
What is region?
distinguished on the basis of specific characteristics, or attributes 标志
What is the types of regions?
- Formal region: “Uniform in terms of specified criteria.”
- Functional region: “An area that literally functions as a unit, economically or administratively… usually organized by transport routes…”
- Vernacular region: Local region as identified by the region’s own inhabitants.
What is Regional Geography
combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes.
What are the type of distance
Absolute, relative, cognitive
What is distance decay?
The declining density of pattern or process with increasing distance from the given location
Space type?
•Absolute, relative, cognitive
Container or perceive
What is Topological space?
the connections between, or connectivity of, particular points in space.”
What are the two level of place ?
- 1) an objective location that has both uniqueness and interdependence with other places
- *2) a subjective social and cultural construct – somewhere that has personal meaning for individuals or groups.”
Accessibility
•“The opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other locations.”
Spatial Interaction
Shorthand for all kinds of movement and flows involving human activity
Interdependence between place and regions can be sustain
Diffusion
•“The way in which things spread through space over time.” (44). One of most important aspect of spatial interaction
Scale
- The resolution levels used in any human geographic research;
- most characteristically refers to the size of the area studied,
- but also to the time period covered
- and the number of people investigated.
What does map creat for?
Preserve •distance equidistant •area. Equal area •shape. conformal •direction/angles. conformal
