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Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards

1
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Human Georgraphy

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How people, places, space and society make sense of each other

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The four levels of Human Geography

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  1. What is it?
  2. Where is it?
  3. Why is it there?
  4. Who cares?
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Geography

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A study of the physical features and characteristics of the earth

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Globalization

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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.

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Spacial

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An arrangement of places and phenomena (human and physical)

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Spacial distribution

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Distribution of statistics among a spacial

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5 Themes

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Movement (mobility)
Region (organization of areas)
Human environment (interactions)
Environment (connections)
Location (earths surface)
Place (specific points)
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Sense of Place

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Infusing a place with meaning and emotion

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Perception of place

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Belief or understand of what a place is like, often based on books, movies, stories and pictures

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Cultural landscape

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The visible human imprint on the landscape

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Sequent occupance

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Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape that reflect years

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Reference map

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A map that shows the location of places and geographic features with ABSOLUTE locations. Used for time and location

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Thematic map

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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

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Mental maps

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Maps you carry in your mind

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Activity spaces

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Places that we travel to routinely

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Geographic information system (GIS)

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A collection of computer hardware and software that store and analysis data

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Remote sensing

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A method of collecting data by instruments that are physically distant form the area of study

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Scale

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The territorial extent of something

Local, regional, national, or global

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Mercator

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A map of earth that is flattened

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Goodies homolosine

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A map that is interrupted and messed up

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Formal region

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Defined by a commonality, like a cultural linkage or characteristic
Ex. The German speaking region of Europe

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Functional region

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Defined by a set of social, political or economic activities

Ex. An urban area

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Perceptual region

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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

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Culture

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An all encompassing term that identifies the lifestyle of people, their prevailing values and beliefs. WAY OF LIFE

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Cultural trait

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A singular part of culture

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Cultural complex

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Multiple parts of culture

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Cultural hearth

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The center point of culture, where it started

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Diffusion

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The spread of an idea or innovation from the hearth to other areas. Time/ distance decay and cultural barrier slow down diffusion

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Expansion diffusion

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How things spread

  • contagious
  • hierarchical
  • stimulus
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Contagious

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Expansion diffusion that spreads adjacently (like a disease)

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Hierarchical

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Expansion diffusion that spreads to the most linked people or places first

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Stimulus

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An idea to at promoted a local experiment or change in the way people do things

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Relocation diffusion

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When people move and carry and idea or innovation with them to a new place

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Pangaea

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The theory that there was a super continent that broke apart into fragments we know as continents

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Plate Techtonics

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The earth is divided into plates, which are always moving

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Pacific Plate

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Pacific ‘ring of fire”- The most dangerous tectonic plate that contains the highest number of volcanoes and earthquakes

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Pleistocene

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The theory that the earth was in a deep freeze. Proven by glaciations (permanent ice) and interglaciation (melting ice)

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Mount Tola

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Mountain that exploded, altering global climate and leaving this caldera, creating an “evolutionary bottleneck”

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