Human Geography Flashcards
What is the difference between space and place?
Space is an objective location on Earth, whereas place is an area on Earth with human emotional and cultural elements (i.e. an area humans have attached meaning to).
The difference between space and place is similar to the different between a house and a home.
FYI: The place you come from shapes your identity.
What is scale in human geography?
Scale in this context is the interconnected hierarchy between places. It hints the power and economic dynamics between places and between peoples.
What is toponymy?
It is the name we give a place.
Names are powerful because it indicates who is in power, who owns a place, and what cultural elements to expect.
What is a region?
A region is a group of places with cultural similarities.
For example, Igbo land is a group of places that share a common Igbo culture (i.e. similar beliefs, foods, language, style, etc.).
What is ethnic group?
A group of people who share similar cultural traits.
What is cultural acculturation?
When one group adopts another group’s culture with its on twist.
What is cultural assimilation?
When a minority group adopts the majority group’s culture in place of its own.
What is cultural assimilation?
When a group (usually the majority) adopts another group’s culture (usually a minority group’s culture) while concurrently erasing the culture’s original roots.
What is cultural complexes?
A place where multiple culture mixes into what would be considered interesting expressions.
What is language?
Language is a system of symbols used to communicate.
Words move with people, and this is evidenced by the fact that many languages have similar sounding words with similar meanings.
Language move around through commerce, colonization, and resettling. When language move, ideas, art, and music are exchanged as well.
What is migration?
Migration is the act of leaving a place to go to another place for long term.
What are push and pull factors?
Push factors are the things that make people leave where they are from e.g. political unrest, religious intolerance, economic hardship, natural disaster, etc.
Pull factors are the things that make people choose to migrate to a place instead of another e.g. increased economic opportunity, religious freedom, existing cultural enclaves, etc.
What is demography?
The population composition of a particular place in regards to race/ethnicity, age, birth rate, death rate, etc.
What is a resource?
A thing that can be used for economic prosperity or for supporting the continued functioning of a place and its residents.
What is a country’s human resources?
A country’s human resource includes its population and the population’s knowledge, expertise, and labor.
