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1
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Why is Kenya’s most productive farmland devoted to tea and coffee rather than useful food products?

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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)

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Why is Kenya’s export revenue from coffee and tea important to the government?

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Because they need that money to pay off the loans that they owe to global financial and developmental institutions

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Why is fieldwork important to geographers?

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It can provide insight into global issues by observing characteristics of places and connections between people. these observations allow geographers analyze global processes.

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Define globalization

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The processes that increase relationships, interactions, and independence across national borders. It is an interconnectedness between the world through economics, cultural and political change.

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Define scale

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The relationships at different levels of the world that is used to understand, individual, local, regional, national, and global interrelationships.

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What are the problems inherent with reducing the world to “local” and “global”

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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

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What are some of the different levels of scale

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Individual, local, regional, national

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Define pandemic and explain the typical conditions where cholera thrives

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A pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a disease

Cholera thrives in places that lack sanitary sewer systems

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What is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?

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A pandemic is a worldwide outbreak of a disease, an epidemic is a regional outbreak of a disease

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Large scale map vs small scale map

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Large scale map is smaller and shows more detail

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How did Dr. Snow figure out the cause of Cholera?

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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

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How can geographers use location theory to determine where it is best to build a particular store?

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By using spacial perspective and assessing how humans interact with their environment and considering things like how will people get there

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Spacial perspective

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How or why physical features are positioned in geographic space

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Define sense of place

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When a person associates a place with a certain meaning, emotion, or character. It is a personal feeling

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Why would students from PA be more willing to live in CA than students from CA?

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because PA students developed a good perception of CA

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Explain the connection between spatial interaction and distance

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Spatial interaction between places depends on the distances between them

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Define cultural landscape

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The effect of human activity on a landscape

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Explain the difference between thematic maps and reference maps

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Reference maps show absolute location and geographic features

Thematic maps show and tell stories or information about a movement of a geographic phenomenon

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How do global positioning systems work?

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Work by allowing us to locate features on earth accurately by navigating us to places and considering all conditions while doing so

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Explain how Fredericksburg, Virginia has changed its relative location

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The place around Virginia changed due to war and other conditions

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How are mental maps formed

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Through our studies and information we take in

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Which of our mental maps are most accurate

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Mental maps within our activity spaces (places that we travel daily to)

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Define terra-incognita

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Unknown lands that are off limits

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What are toponyms

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Place names

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Define remote sensing

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Collected by satellites and aircraft. That monitor earth’s surface from a distance and collects information and observations about it

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Define geographic information systems (GIS)

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Compare spacial data by creating digital images of the environment to create maps with patterns and processes

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How can GIS lead to lucrative jobs

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Training in GIS technology branches over a wide variety of fields

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How can GIS aid in the fight against disease

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Can map out the probability of spread in order to make predictions on where it will spread

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globalization definition

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set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and accelerating independence across national borders.

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SPACIAL DISTRIBUTION

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the arrangement at how something is Distributed across space (how it’s laid out, organized, What patterns or relationships exist).

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MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY

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the distribution of a disease (to find its cause)

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PANDEMIC

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worldwide outbreaks of disease.

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EPIDEMIC

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regional outbreaks of disease

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FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

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location, human - environment interactions, region, place,
Movement

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LOCATION THEORY

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element that seeks to answer questions like “Why are villages, towns, and cites spaced the way they are?” “should a super target be built downtown given the median income of people at the locations of other shopping areas?”

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SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE

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invites consideration of the relationship among phenomena in individual places - including the relationship between humans and the physical world

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HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

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” Why did the Army Corps of Engineers alter Florida’s physical environment so drastically?” Asking locational questions often means looking at the reciprocal relationship between humans and environments

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REGION

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Features tend to be concentrated in regions

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PLACE

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all places on earth have unique human and physical characteristics.

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SENSE OF PLACE

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a development people have by infusing a place wim meaning and emotion or by labeling a place with a certain character

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PERCEPTION OF PLACE

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perceptions of places we have never been - developed through books, movies, stories, and pictures

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LANDSCAPE

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refers to the material character of a place, the complex of natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects, that give a place a particular

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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

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The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape

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SEQUENT OCCUPANCE

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imprints made by a sequence of occupants, whose impacts are layered one on top of another

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CARTOGRAPHY

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the art and science of making maps

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REFERENCE MAPS

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show absolute locations of places and geographic features

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THEMATIC MAPS

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tell stories & typically show the degree of some altitude or the movement of a geographic phenomenon.

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GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS)

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allows us to locale Features on earth,
with extreme accuracy

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GEOCATCHING

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popular hobby based on GPS where people play treasure hunt from all over the world by pasting clues on the internet

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RELATIVE LOCATION

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describes the location of a place in relation to other human and physical features

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MENTAL MAPS

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maps in our minds of places we have been and places we have merely heard of

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ACTIVITY SPACES

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the places we travel to routinely in our routes of daily activity (more accurate and detailed than mental maps of places we have never been)

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TERRA INCOGNITA

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unknown lands that are off limits (included in mental maps) (If your path to the movie theater includes driving past a school that you do not attend, your map on paper may label the school, but no details will be shown regarding the place)

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GENERALIZED MAPS

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helps us see general trends, but we cannot see all cases of a given phenomenon (world precipitation map)

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REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY

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data collected by satellites and aircraft (that allow geographers to monitor earth from a distance)

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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

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used to compare a variety of spatial data by creating digitized representation of the environment. GIS also used to analyze data, which can give insight about geographic patterns and relationships

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FORMAL REGION

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has a shared trait, either physical or cultural (when the scale of analysis shifts, the formal region changes) (ex. The region of europe where french is spoken by a majority of the people can be thought of as a french-speaking region)

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FUNCTIONAL REGION

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defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it

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NODAL REGION

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defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it

60
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Another word for a functional region

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nodal region

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PERCEPTUAL REGION

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carried in people’s mind based on accumulated knowledge of regions and cultures

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VERNACULAR REGION

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carried in people’s mind based on accumulated knowledge of regions and cultures

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Another word for a perceptual region

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vernacular region

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CULTURAL TRAIT

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a single attribute of a culture

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CULTURE COMPLEX

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a district combination of cultural traits (more than one culture may exhibit a particular culture trait)

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CULTURAL HEARTH

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area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse

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INDEPENDENT INVENTION

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cultural traits that develop in more than one hearth without being influenced by its development elsewhere (ex. agriculture)

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TIME-DISTANCE DECAY

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the further a place is from a hearth, the less likely an innovation will be adopted. The acceptance of an innovation becomes less likely the longer it takes to reach its potential adopters

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CULTURAL BARRIERS

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obstacles to the spread of ideas or innovations due to cultural prescriptions (prohibiting consumption of alcoholic beverages or meats)

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EXPANSION DIFFUSION

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an innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward

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HIERARCHICAL DIFFUSION

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a pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to (or are already adapting) what is being diffused.
» ex. Under Armor diffused from college and professional football players to lacrosse players and other athletes who were friends of the football players, and eventually it became a trend

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CONTAGIOUS DIFFUSION

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distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local population by contact from person to person

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STIMULUS DIFFUSION

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when an idea diffuses from its cultural hearth, but the original idea is changed by the new adapters.

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RELOCATION DIFFUSION

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involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation, and who carry it to a new, perhaps distant, locale, where they proceed to disseminate it (immigration)

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ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM

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human behavior, individually and collectively, is strongly affected by, even controlled or determined by, the physical environment

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POSSIBILISM

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The choices that a society makes depends on what its members need and on what technology is available

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CULTURAL ECOLOGY

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an area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to and alteration of environment

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POLITICAL ECOLOGY

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an area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the environmental consequences of dominant political - economic arrangements and understandings.

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TOPONYM

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the name of a place

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SITE

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the specific physical characteristics of a location (terrain, climate, soil quality, vegetation)

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SITUATION

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the location or position of place of geographical feature in relation to its surroundings, neighboring areas, and other significant geographic or human features

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ARITHMETIC DENSITY

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(population density) measure that quantifies the concentration of people with a specific geographic area

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TOBLER’S FIRST LAW OF GEOGRAPHY

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all things are related. However, all things being equal, those things are closest together are more related

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PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY

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measure that calculates the population pressure on arable land within a specific area. Unlike arithmetic density, which measures the total population per unit of land area, psychological density focuses on the population relative to the amount of agriculturally productive land available for production

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SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION

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the world is becoming “smaller” and more interconnected as a result of technological advancements, making it easier for people, goods, and info to travel across greater distance, quickly.

86
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4 ways to identify locations

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names, site, situation, mathematical location

87
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why might some places change their name?

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political upheaval/to honor someone important

88
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what does site include

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climate, topography, water sources, soil vegetation, latitude, elevation

89
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site affects how people ____

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build

90
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SITUATION

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a places location in relation to other places

91
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when were standard time zones adapted in the U.S. and based off what?

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in 1883 based on the creation of longitude in the 1700s

92
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what is mathematical location

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absolute location

93
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how does latitude affect place

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determines how much sunlight we have

94
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how does longitude affect place

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determines when we are (time)

95
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what two factors lead to distinct landscapes of regions

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human characteristics
environmental characteristics

96
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cultural ecology

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the study of human environmental relationships

97
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5 major types of climates

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tropical, dry, warm mid-latitude, cold mid-latitude, polar (mid-latitude means temperate)

98
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4 major planet biomes

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forest, savanna, grassland, desert

99
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what are two issues we face with soil

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  1. erosion
  2. depletion of nutrients
100
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reference maps

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show locations of places and geographic features

101
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CHOROPLETH MAP

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a map that uses differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols within predefined areas to indicate the average values of a property or quantity in those areas

102
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how does scale affect observation

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scale affects observation by determining how much detail can be seen or observed. At different scales, we can also see different patterns that mean different things depending on how you look at it

103
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how is the local map that shows the median family income in Washington D.C. more accurate than the map that shows the median family income by state & province

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the median income by state is representative of the whole state and does not include particular small details such as neighborhoods. Specific neighborhoods may be way below or way above the median, so looking at the scale of the state as a whole is not very representative, and therefore, more inaccurate

104
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how have some Americans altered their definition of the perceptual region “The Middle East” since the terrorist attacks of 9/11

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Before 9/11, Americans thought that the middle east region included Iraq and Iran, but didn’t go more east than that. However after 9/11 occurred, the perception of the Middle East changed to include Afghanistan & Pakistan

105
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what methods did Wilbur Zelinsky use when constructing his map of the 12 major perceptual regions in the U.S.

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analyzed telephone directories of areas in the U.S. & Canada. noting the frequency with which businesses used regional or locational terms in their listings.

106
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how is culture a system of meaning?

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its characteristics are maintained through communication and learning.

107
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how can two regions act as a cultural hearth for the same idea or invention?

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they can act as independent inventors where a cultural trait develops in more than one place independently

108
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how can cultural taboos inhibit the spread of an idea?

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they can pose as cultural barriers, preventing the spread of ideas (prohibiting alcohol, certain meats)

109
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why do geographers reject environmental determinism in favor of possibiIism?

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the environment does not limit the range of choices available to a culture, so possibilism is more in favor since it states how the choices society makes depends on what we need and what technology is available to us (rather than how the environment limits us, since humans are too powerful to be limited by the environment)

110
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what are the limitations with possibilism?

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possibilism encourages a lone of inquiry that starts with the physical environment and asks what it allows. Humans, however, often push the boundaries of what is “environmentally possible”

111
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how many time zones are there on earth and how are they divided?

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24 times zones. Divided by 15 degree segments of longitude

112
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How does Tobler’s first law of geography relate to distance decay?

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Tobler’s first law states that all things are related and things that are closer together are more related. Distance decay states that the connection between two places decreases as distance increases, so things that are closer together are more related to each other.

113
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How has modern technology played a role in globalization?

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technology led to an improvement in communication, information flow transportation, cultural exchange, healthcare, etc.

114
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where is the prime meridian? Where does It start?

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starts at Greenwich, England & goes down through the very left edge of Africa

115
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what is the place from which time is measured?

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Greenwich, England

116
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why is time measured from Greenwich, England?

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because the prime meridian passes through to

117
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what is the purpose of the international date line

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to define the change in calendar date

118
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what is the longitude of the international date line

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180 degrees

119
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where is the International date line

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to the right of Australia & Asia, splits Alaska & Russia

120
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Acculturation

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Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture

121
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Polder

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A tract of low land reclaimed from a body of water (as the sea)

122
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First person to coin the term geography & what did he do

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Eratosthenes
Calculated the circumference of the earth, created an early world map, separated the earth into 5 climate zones

123
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2 Early map makers;

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The babylonians,
Miletus,Turkey

124
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First to demonstrate that the earth was sphered

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Aristotle

125
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Pei Xiu

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Created a map of China in 267 C.E.

126
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Al-Idris

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Prepared a world map and geography text in 1154

127
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Ibn Bottutah

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Traveled the world more than Marco Polo and wrote about it in the 1300s

128
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Geographers such as ____ and _____ took info from columbus to make new, more accurate maps

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Mercator ,
Ortelius

129
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Land ordinance of 1785

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The US gov divided the US into systems of townships and ranges
Townships 6miles^2 on each sude
Each township divided into 36 1mile^2 sections. Each mile^2 has 640 acres

130
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Each mile^2 has _____ acres

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640

131
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Cultural landscape theory

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Culture imprints on land

132
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Who proposed the cultural landscape theory

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Carl Saur

133
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What form of cultural diffusion is not expansion diffusion?

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Relocation diffusion

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