Unit 1 Flashcards
Why is Kenya’s most productive farmland devoted to tea and coffee rather than useful food products?
Because the most productive farmland is owned by foreign corporations. By exporting and producing tea over coffee, kenya would profit from foreign income (coffee and tea is their main opportunity for foreign income)
Why is Kenya’s export revenue from coffee and tea important to the government?
Because they need that money to pay off the loans that they owe to global financial and developmental institutions
Why is fieldwork important to geographers?
It can provide insight into global issues by observing characteristics of places and connections between people. these observations allow geographers analyze global processes.
Define globalization
The processes that increase relationships, interactions, and independence across national borders. It is an interconnectedness between the world through economics, cultural and political change.
Define scale
The relationships at different levels of the world that is used to understand, individual, local, regional, national, and global interrelationships.
What are the problems inherent with reducing the world to “local” and “global”
There is a risk of losing the complexity that modern life has. Processes at other scales mat affect another scale that may not solely be a “local” or a “global” scale
What are some of the different levels of scale
Individual, local, regional, national
Define pandemic and explain the typical conditions where cholera thrives
A pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a disease
Cholera thrives in places that lack sanitary sewer systems
What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?
A pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a disease, an epidemic is a regional outbreak of a disease
Large scale map vs small scale map
Large scale map is smaller and shows more detail
How did Dr. Snow figure out the cause of Cholera?
By mapping the soho district and marked that a large number of deaths were clustered near a certain water pump, so that was the cause
How can geographers use location theory to determine where it is best to build a particular store?
By using spacial perspective and assessing how humans interact with their environment and considering things like how will people get there
Spacial perspective
How or why physical features are positioned in geographic space
Define sense of place
When a person associates a place with a certain meaning, emotion, or character. It is a personal feeling
Why would students from PA be more willing to live in CA than students from CA?
because PA students developed a good perception of CA
Explain the connection between spatial interaction and distance
Spatial interaction between places depends on the distances between them
Define cultural landscape
The effect of human activity on a landscape
Explain the difference between thematic maps and reference maps
Reference maps show absolute location and geographic features
Thematic maps show and tell stories or information about a movement of a geographic phenomenon
How do global positioning systems work?
Work by allowing us to locate features on earth accurately by navigating us to places and considering all conditions while doing so
Explain how Fredericksburg, Virginia has changed its relative location
The place around Virginia changed due to war and other conditions
How are mental maps formed
Through our studies and information we take in
Which of our mental maps are most accurate
Mental maps within our activity spaces (places that we travel daily to)
Define terra-incognita
Unknown lands that are off limits
What are toponyms
Place names