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Geography CH 1 Flashcards

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Name the sub disciples of geography. (10)

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  1. Historical 4. Political 5. Economic 6. Cultural 7. Biogeography 8. Climatology 9. Geomorphology 10. Cartography 11. Hydrology 12. Environmental
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What are geographers interested in and explain the two

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They’re interested in physical and human landscapes.

Physical geographers are concerned with the landscape how earth was formed, shaped and the physical and other processes affecting the earth.

Human geography study human interactions with the landscape - where people live, how they live, what has changed their lives and how physical environment affect is affected by humans

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What is a key focus of geography?

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“place” and “places”

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What is regional geography?

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study of geographic areas from a physicial & human perspective

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The word “region” for regional geography can be defined in what 5 ways?

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  1. Climate region 2. Physical Region 3. Human Region 4. Cultural Region 5. Functional Regions
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Example of functional regions

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School district, health regions, forest regions or a census district

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Cultural region can be defined by?

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forestry, ethnicity, religion etc

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What’s a Biome?

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large region based on climate and vegetation found in a place - ex: temperate rainforest in BC

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Definition of physical region?

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Physical types of landforms. Example: mountains, ice capp, vegetation and deserts etc

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what is time-space convergence?

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A shrinking world. Less time to travel & send info over great distances. Technological innovations- transportation & digital world

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is time-space convergence equal everywhere? any why?

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no, its not equal for the indigenous people because of the divide. some indigenous people dont have access to the internet or the digital world because of how separated they are

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Spatial Diffusion?

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Movement of things from one location to another. Ex. disease move or how people move. ex. how covid-19 spread

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What two things determine vegetation in a place?

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sunlight & rainfall

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definition of push and pull factors and examples

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relation to the relocation and diffusion of people (migration) - why people leave their home and move and why some people dont. ex. war can make someone move or rising sea levels or forest fires

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What do physical geographers study

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How the earth was formed, shaped and the physical and other processes affecting the earth

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What do human geographers study

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Study human interactions with the landscape - where ppl live l, How they live, what has shaped their lives and how the physical environment affects and is affected by humans

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What do geographers study?

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They study places and the interaction among places and the processes by which places originate (human and physical) and the changes that occur overtime

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What’s vernacular

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People who perceive or feel that in someway they belong to a particular region or place

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What is toponyms

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Place names. Ex. countries, provinces, cities, mountains, rivers etc. ex. Vancouver

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What is climate region

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A particular type of climate system

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What is biogeoclimatic region/zone

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Based on climate, physical landscape and vegetation

22
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What different types of barriers are there? (6)

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Physical, social, cultural, war, political, economic etc.

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Example of physical barrier in BC

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Mountains because it was a barrier for movements or getting around places

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Another example of a barrier

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Oceans because it would take a long way to travel

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Why is scale important

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It’s important when looking at regions. Skills definition is regions come in all sizes from global, to continents, two nation states, to states within states, to cities, towns, neighborhoods, to the individual

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What is basin

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Depression or deep in the earth surface. They are shaped like balls with sides higher than the bottom.

27
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What do demographics study

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They study population variables

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Examples of population variables (10)

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Age, sex, population growth, distribution, population density, births and deaths, mobility, fertility rates, age–sex pyramids, ethnicity

29
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Population growth = natural increase + net migration

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Net migration # is important because it’s the total

30
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What does BC rely on

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Immigration because of population growth

31
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Net migration = immigration - emigration

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32
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What is total fertility rate (TFR)

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Average number of children a woman will have during her reproductive years

33
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What is baby boom

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High rate of natural increase in North America after World War II. After the war ended people came back and got jobs and had good income so people got a lot of children. At that time because of population growth you get $500 if you got a child

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What does Echo boom

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Offspring of baby boomers

35
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What is vital statistics

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Number of births and deaths, marriages, divorces

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What does U.N mean

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United nation

37
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Why is it good to study provinces in geography

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Helps them understand why places in regions are considerable risk from forest fire floods avalanches etc. and they can determine new risks and how they can be reduced and eliminated

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Example of Timespace convergence

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In the past taking a boat or ship from India to BC took months and now you can fly there and less time

39
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What is carriers plus barriers

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Carriers: instrumental in spread and adoption of innovations and good acquisition or contraction of diseases

Barriers: prevent/block the above movement

40
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Carriers would be ?

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Better for environment to get electricity from sunlight and clean energy

41
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Barrier would be

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Expensive some places don’t have enough sunlight and not equally distributed

42
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What is relocation diffusion

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Movement of people from one place to another

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