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Know For Human Geography Exam Ch.1

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48668265GlobalizationThe expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.
48668266Themes of GeographyLocation, Human-Enviorment interactions, Region, Place, and Movement (Page 11)
48668267Carl SauerWrote an article entitled, "Recent developments in Cultural Geography," in which he argued cultural landscapes are compromised of the "Forms superimposed on the physical landscape" by human activity. (Page 12)
48668268Activity SpaceThe space within which daily activity occurs.
48668269ScaleDistance on a map compared to distance on Earth and The territorial extent of something. (Page 20-22 and like a paragraph on page 23)
48668270Formal RegionA type of region marked by a certain degreee of homogeneity in one or more phenomena; also called uniform region or homogeneous region.
48668271Functional RegionA region defined by the particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it.
48668272CultureThe heart of human geography. (read pages 26-28 for a better understanding))

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