Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards
Human Georgraphy
How people, places, space and society make sense of each other
The four levels of Human Geography
- What is it?
- Where is it?
- Why is it there?
- Who cares?
Geography
A study of the physical features and characteristics of the earth
Globalization
A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regards to country borders. A set of outcomes that are unevenly distributed, varying across scales.
Spacial
An arrangement of places and phenomena (human and physical)
Spacial distribution
Distribution of statistics among a spacial
5 Themes
Movement (mobility) Region (organization of areas) Human environment (interactions) Environment (connections) Location (earths surface) Place (specific points)
Sense of Place
Infusing a place with meaning and emotion
Perception of place
Belief or understand of what a place is like, often based on books, movies, stories and pictures
Cultural landscape
The visible human imprint on the landscape
Sequent occupance
Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years
Reference map
A map that shows the location of places and geographic features with ABSOLUTE locations. Used for time and location
Thematic map
A map that tells a story about the degree of an attribute, the pattern of its distribution, or it’s movement. RELATIVE location and are more commonly used
Mental maps
Maps you carry in your mind
Activity spaces
Places that we travel to routinely
Geographic information system (GIS)
A collection of computer hardware and software that store and analysis data
Remote sensing
A method of collecting data by instruments that are physically distant form the area of study
Scale
The territorial extent of something
Local, regional, national, or global
Mercator
A map of earth that is flattened
Goodies homolosine
A map that is interrupted and messed up
Formal region
Defined by a commonality, like a cultural linkage or characteristic
Ex. The German speaking region of Europe
Functional region
Defined by a set of social, political or economic activities
Ex. An urban area
Perceptual region
Ideas in our minds, based on accumulated knowledge of places and regions that define and else was of some mess or connectedness
Ex. The south, the mid-Atlantic, the Middle East
Culture
An all encompassing term that identifies the lifestyle of people, their prevailing values and beliefs. WAY OF LIFE
Cultural trait
A singular part of culture
Cultural complex
Multiple parts of culture
Cultural hearth
The center point of culture, where it started
Diffusion
The spread of an idea or innovation from the hearth to other areas. Time/ distance decay and cultural barrier slow down diffusion
Expansion diffusion
How things spread
- contagious
- hierarchical
- stimulus
Contagious
Expansion diffusion that spreads adjacently (like a disease)
Hierarchical
Expansion diffusion that spreads to the most linked people or places first
Stimulus
An idea to at promoted a local experiment or change in the way people do things
Relocation diffusion
When people move and carry and idea or innovation with them to a new place
Pangaea
The theory that there was a super continent that broke apart into fragments we know as continents
Plate Techtonics
The earth is divided into plates, which are always moving
Pacific Plate
Pacific ‘ring of fire”- The most dangerous tectonic plate that contains the highest number of volcanoes and earthquakes
Pleistocene
The theory that the earth was in a deep freeze. Proven by glaciations (permanent ice) and interglaciation (melting ice)
Mount Tola
Mountain that exploded, altering global climate and leaving this caldera, creating an “evolutionary bottleneck”
