AP Human Geography – Geographers – Flashcards
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Carl Sauer
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-cultural landscape is the visible imprint of human activity -the spread of an idea/innovation from its ancient and cultural hearth to other places
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Derwent Whittlesey
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He came up with sequent occupance to refer to those sequential imprints of occupants, whose impacts are layered one on top of the other. (Like languages that spreads to different countries)
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Victoria Lawson
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She came up with the term jumping scale to describe rescaling. Lawson explains that taking a single regional view and jumping scale to globalize it legitimated that view and negates other regional and local views. ( coorportations taking their businesses to other countries)
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Wilbur Zelinsky
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He overcame a task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada.
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Torsten Hagerstrand
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His research revealed how time, as well as distance, affects individual human behavior and diffusion of people and ideas.
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Dr. John Snow
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He mapped cases of cholera in London's Soho District by marking down certain stops and homes that were affected and he tracked the disease down.
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Koruna Kolivras
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A geographer who produced a map analyzing the probability of Dengue fever in Hawaii.