Unit 1: short/long/(application topics) Flashcards
(11 cards)
explain what is geography? and explain the impact that harm de blij and erastothenes had on geography
Geography – “earth describe”,
- Harm de Blij – geographer
- Post prominent geo writer, editor of Good morning America, and National Geographic.
- Erastosthenes – father of geography – 276 BC to 194 BC – Greek
- Wrote Geographika, which is now lost but referenced,
- first to use the term geography, devising system of longitude and longitude
- divided planet into climate zones
- listed names and locations of 400 cities
- first to calculated circumference of earth – only less than 1% off.
define and explain the difference between absolute and relative location
- Absolute Location: Exact spot at the place is found
- use the grid system, hemispheres
- Relative locations: helps orient self in space, develop awareness of world around (example Winnipeg at juncture of two rivers.
name and explain what are the geographic research methods
o 1: Direct observation: Visit, photos
o 2: Interviews: How people think, feel, use
o 3: Maps: Cartography
o 4: Statistics and data: Find Patterns and Trends
o 5: Technology: GIS, Satellite
explain with multiple examples why a geographic knowledge is specifically important
Crucial in national security:
-risk of weapons of mass destruction
-global climate change
Geo knowledge helps: solve problems with steps and a process to go through
Importance example:Phuket Thailand Tsunami:
-Dec 26, 2004.
-Tilly Smith, 10 yrs. old, on vacation so water rising. Remembered from school tsunami’s. Told parents and warned beach goers. Went to upper floor in hotel, saved around 100 lives.
what are the three locations of diseases
endemic: diease is particular to a locality or region, ie molaria
- epidemic: outbreak of disease locality or regionally
- pandemic: outbreak spread worldwide
what are the three types of diseases
1) infectious: invasion of parasite and their multiplication in the body - 65% of human illneses
2) chronic/degenerate: diseases of longevity of old age - cause long term deterioration of body, cancer, heart disease,
3) Genetic/inherited: traced directly to parent and chromosomes/genes
- nemophelia, lactose intolerant
what type of landform is the new island of japan? why?
Nishinoshima Island:
- new volcanic island, only above island since November 2013
- opportunity to study emergence of life
- volcanic activity calms down = plants (from ocean currents) and birdseeds
- seabird excreta and feathers - nutrience for soil
- seeds carried by wind=growth
pope francis 10 keys to happiness
1) Live and let live
2) Be giving of yourself to others
3) Proceed calmly in life
4) Healthy sense of leisure
5) Sunday is for family
6) Be creative with young people an find innovative ways to create dignified jobs
7) Respect and take care of nature
8) Stop being negative
9) The worst thing of all I religious proselytism – a person who has changed from one religious belief
10) Work for peace
unit 1 long answer: explain what fr thomas berry saw problematic on the earth and what were his suggestions to solve the problems?
Fr, Thomas Berry: Eco theologian
- God entrusted God’s creation to the care of humanity
Problems (with book “evening thoughts”)
-Inability to see earth as sacred Community
-Earth seen only as collection of objects to be used
-Sensitive to human rights but not earth rights
-we cannot have well people on a sick planet
-More people who practice religion, the les they worry with nature, as they focus more on moral conduct
-relief in redemption: we are not of this world
-End of Cenozoic Era: (65 million years) – flourishing in life
-start of ecozonic era: new human-earth relation – life systems terminated by humans
-current industrial world cannot be maintained: we see the dark side of it now – cost and debt – limited natural recourses
-Post WW2 1945-1997 Kyoto protocol: population went from 2.5bil to 6bil,
-UN= 51-190
-chemicals=.5million tons of industrial chemicals to over 200 million tons each year
Solutions:
-Need continent constitutions not country
-court recognized land rights
-human rights do not cancel others rights: coexistence
-land ethics: change from conquerors to members and citizen of the land
-Need: certain alarm at what is happening, fascination with the future available to us only if we respond to present urgencies
-no longer “Pax Romana” (peace among humans) – need Pax Gaia (peace of earth and everything on it).
Longevity and creativity rest on:
1) Not being afraid to change
2) Having intellectual curiosity
3) Being interested in big things
4) Being happy in small things
define and explain the differences between place and region with reference to types of region
-Place: Particular space with physical and human meaning, has unique traits made by environment and people.
Region: Grouping of places based on physical and human factors,
-physical=soil, vegetation, river system, climate, etc.
-Human=language, religion, governments, etc.
3 types of regions
a) Formal, common characteristics of area (products produced there = corn belt)
b) Functional: central place and surrounding area (i.e. LA, Tokyo, Toronto)
c) Perceptual region: popular feelings and images rather than objective data (heartland, north end)
explain the difference amoung a nation state, a nation and a state
Nation state: -country whose population possesses a substantial degree of culture homogeneity and unity. mono not multiculturalism
Nation : -tightly knit group of people posessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, etc.
State:-politically organized territory run by sovereign government and recognized by significant portion of international community
