Regions & Scales
This type of region is defined by a shared trait, such as a common language or climate, and has a clearly defined boundary.
What is a formal region?
Coal, oil, water, and forests are all examples of these, which humans use to meet their needs.
What are natural resources?
The exact latitude and longitude of Denver, Colorado is an example of this type of location.
What is absolute location?
The 3 types of expansion diffusion
What is Contagious diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, and stimulus diffusion.
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.
What is a Pidgin Language?
The area served by a pizza delivery driver is an example of this type of region.
What is a functional region?
This concept focuses on using resources in a way that allows them to be available for future generations.
What is sustainability?
Saying Denver is "about 100 miles south of Cheyenne" describes this type of location.
What is relative location?
The forces that unite or divide a country?
What is Centripetal/Centrifugal
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
What is a Language Family?
“The South” or “the Middle East,” based on people’s shared perceptions, are examples of this type of region.
What is a perceptual (or, vernacular) region?
The outdated theory that the environment completely determines human behavior and culture is known as this.
What is Environmental Determinism?
This concept explains how interactions between places decrease as distance between them increases.
What is distance decay?
Explain what colonialism is. Give an example.
Colonialism is when one country gains control over another country to exploit the people living there economically. Ex: English pilgrims travelling to America, exploiting the native Americans.
A language used to facilitate communication between two people who speak different languages
What is a lingua franca?
Global, regional, national, and local are examples of THIS geographic concept, which shows how data can be analyzed at different levels.
What are scales of analysis?
Farming in deserts with irrigation systems or building floating cities to deal with sea level rise are examples of this broader geographic concept.
What is human-environment interaction?
The idea that technology, such as airplanes and the internet, has made places feel “closer” together even though the distance hasn’t changed, is called this.
What is space time compression/convergence?
Identify and Define the two types of diffusion.
Relocation (Culture that moves along with its individuals) exp: Christianity
Expansion (innovation and ideas that spread while staying strong at its source area)
British vs American English
What is an example of a dialect?
The different scales / scales of analysis we covered are: Global, Regional, National, ___________, Local
What is Subnational?
This newer theory argues that while the environment sets limits, people can adapt and make choices through culture and technology.
What is possibilism?
The migration of people, goods, or ideas from one place to another is known as this.
Movement
Define what cultural imperialism is. Give an example.
Cultural imperialism is when one culture dominates over another, usually as a result of colonialism. Ex: English and Spanish culutre imposed on the Natives in the Americas.
English and French in Canada
What is an example of an Official Language?