Unit 1 Flashcards
Political Ecology
Subdivision of human geo., focus on nature of spatial organization of political governance and practice
Place
Fourth theme, uniqueness of location
Possibilism
Geographic viewpoint, human decisions is big factor in culture development
Reference Maps
Show absolute location and geographic features
Region
3rd theme, area on earths surface
Physical geography
1 of 2 divisions of geo, analysis of natural phenomena
Perceptual region
Region that only exists as an idea
Perception of place
Belief of place through books, movies, and pictures
Cultural landscape
Visible imprint of human activity and culture on landscape
Relative location
Relative position of place
Relocation diffusion
Items being diffused are transmitted by carrier agents as the leave old areas and go to new ones
Remote sensing
Use of instrument to collect data
Rescale
Involvement of players at other scales to support a position
Sense of place
Remember a place and know it
Sequent occupance
Societies leave cultural imprint on a place
Spatial
Space in earths surface
Spatial distribution
Location of geographic phenomena across space
Spatial interaction
2 regions that satisfy each others demands
Spatial perspective
Observing variation in geographic phenomena across space
Stimulus diffusion
Cultural adaptation is created because of difffusion
Thematic maps
Tells stories
Urban hierarchy
Ranking of settlements by size and economic functions
Time-distance decay
Decreasing acceptance of idea with increasing time and distance
Absolute location
Exact location
Accessibilitiy
The ease to reach location
Activity space
Space where daily activity occurs
Cartography
Art and science of making maps
Complementarity
When 2 regions exchange materials and satisfy each others demands
Connectivity
Direct linkage between locations
Contagious diffusion
Spread of idea innovation from person to person
Cultural barrier
Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations
Cultural diffusion
Expansion of cultural element
Cultural ecology
Multiple interactions and relationships b/w a culture and the natural environment
Cultural hearth
Source area, place of origin of major culture
Distance
Physical space b/w two places
Environmental determinism
Natural environ. Has controlling influence over human life
Epidemic
Outbreak of disease
Expansion diffusion
Spread of innovation or idea through population
Fieldwork
Study of geographic phenomena by obsrving people interactions
Five themes
Location, human env. Region, movement, and place
Formal region
Type of region marked by certain degree of homogeneity
Functional region
Region defined by activities and interactions occurred within it
Geocaching
Hunt for a cache
Geographic concept
Ways of seeing world spatially
Geographic information systems
Collection if computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected
Gps
Satellite based system
Globalization
Expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact
Hierarchical diffusion
Idea spreads first among most connected places
Human geography
Analysis of humans
Human environment
2nd theme
Independent invention
Trait of many cultural hearths that developed independent of eachother
Intervening opportunity
Presence of nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes attractiveness of sites far away
Isotherm
Line in map connecting points of equal temperature values
Landscape
Overall appearance of area
Location
First theme, situation of people and things
Location theory
Explain locational pattern of economic activity and manners
Medical geo
Study of health and disease within geo context
Mental map
Picture of way space is organized
Movement
5th theme, mobility
Pandemic
Outbreak of disease worldwide
Pattern
Design of spatial distribution
Culture
Behavior, practices etc.
Cultural complex
Set of cultural traits
Cultural trait
Single element of normal practice in culture
