AP Human Geography – Geographers – Flashcards

-cultural landscape is the visible imprint of human activity -the spread of an idea/innovation from its ancient and cultural hearth to other places

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)

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)

He overcame a task of defining and delimiting the perceptual regions of the United States and southern Canada.

His research revealed how time, as well as distance, affects individual human behavior and diffusion of people and ideas.

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.

A geographer who produced a map analyzing the probability of Dengue fever in Hawaii.