Physical Place
List the 4 physical characteristics of place.
What are soil, climate, landforms, and water bodies?
Human characteristic of place that allows for communication between people who group themselves together.
What is language?
List the 3 types of diffusion we discussed.
What are relocation, contagious, and hierarchical?
List the three types of regions.
What are formal, functional, and perceptual?
The event that helped shape American's perspective on the Middle East.
What is 9/11?
Physical feature defined as a group of islands clustered together.
What is archipelagos?
Human characteristic that describes the government structure of a place.
What are political systems?
Type of diffusion described: Fashion moving from Paris to New York to smaller cities.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Region organized around a node or focal point, like a bus route.
What is a functional region?
The idea that human can alter the environment to make their goals possible.
What is possibilism?
Physical feature defined as land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
The two types of economic systems we discussed.
What are market economy and command/socialist economy?
Type of diffusion: President Obama sending out a tweet and it being retweeted by thousands in a matter of seconds.
What is contagious diffusion?
What is a perceptual region?
Answers the question, "What is it like there?"
What is place?
The idea that the physical landscape controls every aspect of social development
What is Environmental Determinism?
Human characteristic that describes a person's belief system. People will tend to group themselves together by these.
What is religion?
Type of diffusion: Culture from Europe being brought to North America by the settlers.
What is relocation diffusion?
Type of region characterized by a common property, like climate or religion.
What is formal region?
Answers the question, "What do areas have in common?"
What is region?
Terrace Farming is an example of this
What is Possibilism?
The two types of political systems we discussed in class.
What are unlimited and limited government?
Defined as how places are changed by interactions with others.
What is diffusion?
The type of region an airline's flight pattern is an example of.
What is a functional region?
Difference between an ocean and a sea.
What is a sea is partially enclosed by land?