Unit 1
What are the five themes of geography?
Location, Human-Environment Interaction, Place, Region, Movement
What is life expectancy?
the average period that a person may expect to live
What is cultural landscape?
A cultural landscape is made up of structures within the physical landscape caused by human imprint/human activities.
Define nation
A group of people bound together by some sense of a common culture, ethnicity, language, shared history, and attachment to a homeland
Define state.
A politically bound area controlled by an established government that has authority over its internal affairs and foreign policy.
What is a perceptual region?
intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography. defined by feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true.
Population Density is the measure of total population relative to land size.
What is physiologic population density?
the number of people per unit of agriculturally productive land.
Which term is a force that unifies a state and provides stability?
Centripetal Forces or Centrifugal Forces
Centripetal Forces
What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism?
Colonialism involves settling.
Define absolute location.
an exact place on earth using the coordinates system (longitude and latitude)
What is spatial interaction?
how locations interact with each other in terms of the movement of people, freight, services, energy, or information
Draw the diagram of the Malthusian Theory.
It going to be on the board.
What is sense of place?
the perception based on our emotional connection and association with a certain place.
What was the Berlin Conference?
European powers dividing Africa up.
Define functional region.
a region that has a central node upon which everything in the region is reliant. We call it a functional region because the region is designed based upon a functional, rather than political, purpose.
What are spatial perspectives?
The arrangement of places and phenomena, how they are laid out, organized, and arranged on Earth, and how they appear on the landscape. A perspective of objectivity.
Which of the following is an example of population composition?
The average income of individuals in a certain area.
The percentage of elderly people in a population.
The number of individuals who are unemployed in a certain area.
The total number of individuals in a certain area.
The percentage of elderly people in a population.
What is relocation diffusion?
Occurs when people move from their original location to another and bring their innovations with them. Immigration from country to country, city to city, etc. As they relocate to a new location, they bring their ideas, and cultural traditions such as food, music, and more.
How do multi-national corporations practice neocolonialism?
Economically, taking advantage of different financial/labor laws.
Define Sequent Occupance.
successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place that add up to the cultural landscape.
What is Possibilism?
the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. Choices that a society make is dependent on what it needs and the technology available to them.
Draw and label the Demographic Transition Model
Its going to be on the board.
What is stimulus diffusion?
When an idea diffuses from its cultural hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters. Almost all cultural diffusions will have some aspect of stimulus diffusion because of the ways culture adapts to new environmental, social, and political conditions.
Explain the Wallerstein World System Theory
Core, semi-periphery, periphery
Define Spatial Distribution
the arrangement of a phenomenon across the Earth's surface and a graphical display of such an arrangement is an important tool in geographical and environmental statistics.