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Unit 1 Test Review Flashcards

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1
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What is human geography

A

The study of the world and how humans interact with it

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What does human geo try to do

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Answer what?where?why?and so what?-5 themes of geography

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Globalization

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Countries are connected and dependent on each other

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Physical geography

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Geography dealing with natural features and processes

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Spatial perspective

A

How people use their space

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Epidemic

A

Regional outbreak of disease

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Pandemic

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Worldwide outbreak of disease

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Sequent occupance

A

Layering of culture on a society

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activity spaces

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Space of daily activity

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Terra incognita

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Unknown territory

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GIS

A

World digital mapping

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GPS

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Device that shows your exact position

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Absolute location

A

Exact place on the earth

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Relative location

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Location in relation to another location

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Centrality

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Drawing to a place

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Scale

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Putting the earth in proportions

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Mental maps

A

Map in your head

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Realm

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Region sphere or domain

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Regions

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An area with commonality

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Cultural region

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A region that has common cultural elements

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Cultural diffusion

A

Spread of an idea from one culture to another

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Expansion diffusion

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Spread an idea rapidly

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Contagious diffusion

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Diffusion spread like an illness

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Hierarchal diffusion

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An idea goes from power place to power place

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Stimulus diffusion

A

Spread an idea and adapt it

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Relocation diffusion

A

Move your idea with you

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Migrant diffusion

A

When you leave you take your idea and it shrinks back where you left

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Formal region

A

Defined by the geographer

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Functional region

A

Region defined by activities

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Perceptual region

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Region by how you see it

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Regional identity

A

Feeling of being at home

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Cultural ecology

A

Cultural adaptation to an environment

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Environmental

A

Surrounding conditions or influences

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Determinism

A

When the environment determines your choices

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Possibilism

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Social conditions determine your choices

36
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Distance decay

A

The farther away you are the least likely it is to affect you

37
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5 themes of geography

A

Place movement region location and human environment interactions

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Location theory

A

Addresses questions of what economic activities are located where and why

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Sense of place and perspective of place

A

Character of a place the meaning people give to it or both

How people see a place

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Cultural landscape

A

A geographic area including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife there

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Topographic map

A

Shows natural and human made features

42
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Thematic map

A

Specific idea or theme

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Navigational map

A

Used to navigate air and water

44
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Homolosine map

A

Most accurate map with the distortion in the water

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Mercator

A

Flat; distortion everywhere

46
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Azimuthal

A

Explorers look of pole

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Molewide

A

Wide in the middle

48
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Robinson

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Bulge in the middle

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Culture

A

Knowledge attitudes and behaviors in a society

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Anthropologists

A

Study human behavior culture and development

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Cultural traits

A

Single elements that you see in a culture

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Cultural complexes

A

Sets of traits in a culture

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Cultural hearth

A

Birthplace of an idea EX. River valley and Mesopotamia and west Africa

54
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What barriers get in the way of diffusion?

A

Time distance decay and cultural barriers and physical barriers

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