Chapter 1 Flashcards by cam o

Globalization processes

Pros

Increase interaction
deepening relationships
more independence with no regard to country’s borders

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Human geography is how we

Make places
organize society
interact with each other across space
make sense of others and ourselves by locality our region in the world

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Globalization outcomes

Cons

UnEvenly distributed
Wealth varying across scales
difference in manifested throughout the world

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Versions of globalization and their components

1countires
2companies
3 Indivisual

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Spatial arrangement is

Human organization of communities and nations and Networks

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Spatial perspective

Observing variations in geographic phenomenon across space

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Spatial distribution

Physical location of Jurassic phenomena across space

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Spatial behavior

Why people populate certain places

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Five themes of geography

Location 
human environment interaction 
region 
place 
movement

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A persons Sense of place

Are the human characteristics meaning and emotion

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Perception of place

Based on books and movies and

more physical

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Movement definition

Interconnection between places depending on distance accessibility connectivity

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Formal region

Common characteristics the physical and cultural

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Example of formal region

The areas of France Belgium Switzerland

All French speaking

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Functional region

Have shared political social and economic purpose

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Example of a functional region

Cities or suburbs

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Perceptual region

Ideas in our mind based on stereotypes

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Perceptual region example

Where the south is to some people

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Cultural landscape

Visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

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Sample of cultural landscape

Buildings artifacts

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What did carol saur do

He studied cultural landscapes and came up with something

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Sequent occupants

Layers of imprint to the cultural landscape reflecting years of human activity

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What is the example of sequent occupants

The Berlin wall

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What is diffusion

The process of spreading ideas are in the patient from it’s hard to other areas

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Factors that slow with defusion

Time distance delay | cultural barriers

Expansion diffusion

Spread outward from a central point

Contagious diffusion

Spreads from one person to the next

Hierarchal diffusion

Spreads to linked people or places first

Hierarchal diffusion examples

Hip-hop spreading | Fashion trend spreading

Stimulus diffusion

Promotes local experiment or change

Example of stimulus diffusion

The falafel burger in India

What is human geography

Study of people and places

The field of human geography focuses on

How people make places organize spaces society Interact with others

What is globalization

Interaction between people and ideas spread and globally

W what do scales Tell us

Details for local regional and national market

Two types of phenomena geographers study

Human and physical

To understand spatial perspective you must look at the

Arrangement

What did John snow do and help stop

Stop the spread of cholera by mapping victims

And example of location

I villagers are where they are

Example of human environment interaction and

Why The Everglades being drained in Florida

Region definition

Concentrate similar features close together

place destination

The human and physical characteristics of a location

Examples of place

What differentiates Antarctica and the South Pole

Movement example

Trip to Mecca

Movement definition

Mobility of peoples goods ideas is across the surface of the planet

Refrance Maps show

Locations of places with geographic features

Theatric maps show

Attributes or movement of geographic phenomenon

Thematic map example

Hurricane tracker

Are most accurate mental maps of places come from

Activity spaces

Activity spaces are

e space where daily activity occurs

Absolute location

Using longitude and latitude a precise address

Relative location

Location based on things or places around it | Changes over time

Generalize Maps help us

See general chance but cannot see all of the given phenomena

1:24000

Written scale

Remote-sensing

Gathering data at a distance from the earth surface

What is GIS stand for

Global information systems

Examples of how GIS is used

For voting results | and population movement

What's rescale

Using other skills to generate support for position or initiative

Culture

Peoples lifestyles values and beliefs

Culture trait example

Wearing a turban

Cultural complex

Combination of culture traits

Cultural hearth

Where cultural traits developed and diffuse

Example of cultural hearth

Mecca to Muslim

Who did research on the role of time in diffusion

Torsten hägerstrand

Cultural ecology

Concerned with the culture of the system or alteration of the environment

What was the environmental determinism. Theory

That natural environment controls and influences our cultural development

What's scholars supported the environments theory

Huntington and crushing

Possiblism

Humans control culture not environmental

Current research is focuses on

Spatial organization of humanity which is cultural geography