First Semester exam review. Definitions mostly from the De Blij text.
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| 533094966 | Geography | Greek for "to write about the Earth". A study concerned with the analysis of the physical and human characteristics of the Earth's surface from a spatial perspective. | |
| 533094967 | Human Geography | One of the two major divisions of geography. This is the spatial analysis of human population, its cultures, activities, and landscapes. | |
| 533094968 | Physical Geography | One of the two major divisions of geography. This is the spatial analysis of the structure, processes, and location of the Earth's natural phenomena such as climate, soil, plants, animals, and topography. | |
| 533094969 | Spatial Perspective | Observing variations in geographic phenomena across space. | |
| 533094970 | Medical Geography | Mapping the distribution of disease in order to find its cause. | |
| 533094971 | Pandemics | World wide outbreaks of disease. | |
| 533094972 | Epidemics | Regional outbreaks of disease. | |
| 533094973 | Globalization | A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. | |
| 533094974 | The Five Themes of Geography | Location, Human Environment Interaction, Region, Place, and Movement | |
| 533094975 | Location | One of the five themse of geography. This term referes to how the geographical position of people and things on Earth's surface affects what happens and why | |
| 533094976 | Location Theory | An element of contemporary human geography that seeks answers to a wide range of questions -why are viallages, towns, and cities spaced the way they are (for example) | |
| 533094977 | Human Environment Interaction | One of the five themes of geography. This term refers to how people change their surrounding areas and how these areas change the way people live. | |
| 533094978 | Region | One of the five themes of geography. This term refers to how human populations are organized into different spaces. (ex. there are some areas that are densely populated and others that have no inhabitatants) | |
| 533094979 | Place | One of the five themes of geography. This term refers to the unique characteristics that certain places have and the meanings behind them. | |
| 533094980 | Sense of Place | The term for when people infuse feelings of meaning and emotional connections with a particular area. Generally this is an area that they know well or experience multiple times. | |
| 533094981 | Perception of Place | The term for when people develop ideas about areas they have never been (usually based on books, movies, stories, etc.) | |
| 533094982 | Movement | One of the five themes of geography. This term refers to the mobility of people, goods, and ideas across the surface of the planet. | |
| 533094983 | Distance | Spatial interactions between places depend on this. This term can also be defined as the physical space between two places. | |
| 533094984 | Accessibility | The ease of reaching one location from another | |
| 533094985 | Connectivity | The degree of linkage between locations in a type of network. q | |
| 533094986 | Landscape | A core aspcet of geography. This term refers to the material character of a place, the complex natural features, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place a particular form. | |
| 533094987 | Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity on an area. | |
| 533094988 | Sequent Occupance | A term (coined in 1929 by Derwent Whittlesey) that refers to those sequential imprins of occupants whose impacts are layered one on top of the other. | |
| 533094989 | Cartography | The art and science of making maps | |
| 533094990 | Reference Map | This type of map shows locations of places and geographic features. | |
| 533094991 | Thematic Map | This type of map tells stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon. | |
| 533094992 | Absolute Location | Precisely on Earth where something is. This type of location is used in the creation of reference maps. | |
| 533094993 | Global Positioning System | This satellite-based piece of technology (GPS) allows poeople to locate things on the surface of the Earth | |
| 533094994 | Relative Location | Where a place is in relation to other human and physical features. This type of location changes over time. | |
| 533094995 | Activity Spaces | Places that we travel to routinely in our rounds of daily activity. These are more accurate and detailed than mental maps of places we have never been. | |
| 533094996 | Remote Sensing | A way that geograpers monitor the Earth from a distance using technology that is a distance away from the place being studied. This type of data is collected via satellites and aircrafts usually. | |
| 533094997 | Geographic Information System | This is a collection of computer hardware and software that permits spatial data to be collected, recorded, stored, retrieved, manipulated, analuzed ad displayed to the user. Abbreviated GIS. | |
| 533094998 | Formal Region | This is a type of region that is labeled based on a shared trait. This can be either cultural or physical. | |
| 533094999 | Functional Region | An area defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it. | |
| 533095000 | Perceptual Regions | This is an area defined by intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography. These can include people, their cultrual traits, places and their physical traits, etc. | |
| 533095001 | Culture | This is a term that refers to all aspects of society. This includes music, literature, art, dress, routine habits, architecture, etc. | |
| 533095002 | Culture Trait | A single attribute of a societ. Ex. wearing a turban can be a trait of certain Muslim groups. | |
| 533095003 | Cultural Hearth | An area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse. | |
| 533095004 | Cultural Diffusion | The process of the dissemination or an idea or innovation from its hearth to other places. | |
| 533095005 | Time-Distance Decay | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and space from its point of origin or source. | |
| 533095006 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of an idea when the idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward. | |
| 533095007 | Contagious Diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected. | |
| 533095008 | Hierarchical diffusion | A type of diffusion in which the main channel of diffusion is some segement of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused (ex. teens are susceptible to marketing by celebs.) | |
| 533095009 | Stimulus Diffusion | A type of expansion diffusion in which an idea or practice is adopted by new areas that slightly change or alter them from their original form. | |
| 533095010 | Relocation Diffusion | A type of diffusion different from expansion diffusion. This diffusioin involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation and who carry it with them to new areas. | |
| 533095011 | Environmental Determinism | The idea that human behavior, indivually and collectively, is strongely affected by the physical enviroment. Generally this theory is rejected. | |
| 533095012 | Isotherms | Lines connecting points of equal temperature values | |
| 533095013 | Possibilism | An idea that was formed as a reaction to Environmental Determinism that says that natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to a culture. THe choices that a society makes depend on what its members need and on wat technology is availabel to them. | |
| 533095014 | Cultural Ecology | An area of inquiry concerned with culture as a system of adaptation to and alteration of environment. | |
| 533095015 | Political Ecology | An area of inquiry fundamentally concerned with the envriomental consequences of dominant polical-econokmic arrangements and understandings. |
