Unit 1 Test Review Flashcards
What is human geography
The study of the world and how humans interact with it
What does human geo try to do
Answer what?where?why?and so what?-5 themes of geography
Globalization
Countries are connected and dependent on each other
Physical geography
Geography dealing with natural features and processes
Spatial perspective
How people use their space
Epidemic
Regional outbreak of disease
Pandemic
Worldwide outbreak of disease
Sequent occupance
Layering of culture on a society
activity spaces
Space of daily activity
Terra incognita
Unknown territory
GIS
World digital mapping
GPS
Device that shows your exact position
Absolute location
Exact place on the earth
Relative location
Location in relation to another location
Centrality
Drawing to a place
Scale
Putting the earth in proportions
Mental maps
Map in your head
Realm
Region sphere or domain
Regions
An area with commonality
Cultural region
A region that has common cultural elements
Cultural diffusion
Spread of an idea from one culture to another
Expansion diffusion
Spread an idea rapidly
Contagious diffusion
Diffusion spread like an illness
Hierarchal diffusion
An idea goes from power place to power place
Stimulus diffusion
Spread an idea and adapt it
Relocation diffusion
Move your idea with you
Migrant diffusion
When you leave you take your idea and it shrinks back where you left
Formal region
Defined by the geographer
Functional region
Region defined by activities
Perceptual region
Region by how you see it
Regional identity
Feeling of being at home
Cultural ecology
Cultural adaptation to an environment
Environmental
Surrounding conditions or influences
Determinism
When the environment determines your choices
Possibilism
Social conditions determine your choices
Distance decay
The farther away you are the least likely it is to affect you
5 themes of geography
Place movement region location and human environment interactions
Location theory
Addresses questions of what economic activities are located where and why
Sense of place and perspective of place
Character of a place the meaning people give to it or both
How people see a place
Cultural landscape
A geographic area including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife there
Topographic map
Shows natural and human made features
Thematic map
Specific idea or theme
Navigational map
Used to navigate air and water
Homolosine map
Most accurate map with the distortion in the water
Mercator
Flat; distortion everywhere
Azimuthal
Explorers look of pole
Molewide
Wide in the middle
Robinson
Bulge in the middle
Culture
Knowledge attitudes and behaviors in a society
Anthropologists
Study human behavior culture and development
Cultural traits
Single elements that you see in a culture
Cultural complexes
Sets of traits in a culture
Cultural hearth
Birthplace of an idea EX. River valley and Mesopotamia and west Africa
What barriers get in the way of diffusion?
Time distance decay and cultural barriers and physical barriers
