Chapter 1 AP Human Geography – Flashcards
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The study of people and places. Also how they make those places and how they interact with each other in those places.
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Human Geography
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A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders.
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Globalization
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What happens at other scales (local, regional, and national) help create the processes of globalization and shape the outcomes of globalization.
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How and Why does globalization occur at the global scale?
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The study of human geography is the study of human phenomena on Earth. Physical geography is the study of physical phenomena on Earth
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How does the study of physical geography differ from the study of human geography?
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How stuff is laid out, organized, and arranged on the Earth, and how they appear on the landscape.
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Spatial
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Location: Absolute and Relative location Human Environment Interaction: Temperature controls, building, etc Region: Earth does not have an even distribution of resources Place: A place is where humans give a river, mountain, or other physical meaning that they call their own Movement: How do humans move around the planet and what do they move.
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List and define the Five Themes of Geography
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Infusing a place with meaning and emotion, by remembering important events that occurred in a place, or by labeling a place with a certain character.
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What does it mean to have a "sense of place?"
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Distance, accessibility, and connectivity.
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Spatial interaction between places depends on what 3 things?
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The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
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Cultural Landscape.
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He wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography" in which he argued that cultural landscapes are comprised of the "forms superimposed on the physical land"
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Who was Carl Sauer?
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When someone new comes and layers his imprints of technogical and cultural imprints on the land. An example is when Christopher Columbus came to the new world and imprinted his culture on the American Indians.
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What is sequent occupance? Give YOUR OWN example.
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The art and science if making maps
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Cartography
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They do not change. They are always one place that is an exact location. Ex: An address
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Absolute location. Give an example.
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Changes by who is using it. A location that is in relation to another. Ex: Behind freeman
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Relative location. Give an example.
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Places that we have never been to but know about the location. They are so important because they help us travel in our day to day lives without having to ask for directions or check a real map.
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What is a mental map? Why are they so important?
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Places that we travel routinely in our rounds of daily activity.
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Activity space
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The distance on a map compared to the distance on the Earth. The other is the territorial extent of something.
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Scale
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It tells us what level of detail we expect to see.
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Why are geographers interested in studying phenomenon at different scales?
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For analysis
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Why do geographers separate the world into regions?
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Regions that are distinguishable from others by a certain quality or characteristic. Ex: desert
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Formal region? Give an example.
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The product of interactions, of movement of various kinds. At least one form of spatial interaction must take place.
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Functional region? Give an example.
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Intellectual constructs designed to help us understand the nature and distribution of phenomena in human geography.
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Perceptual region? Give an example.
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Location decision, patterns, and landscapes are fundamentally influenced by cultural attitudes and practices.
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Culture
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A single attribute of a culture Ex: All black clothes is an easy way to spot a hipster in Richmond.
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Culture trait? Give an example.
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When more than one culture has a discrete combination of traits.
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Culture complex? Give an example.
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It happens through the movement of people, goods, or ideas across space. It's the spread of ideas through different places.
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Culture diffusion
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An innovation or idea develops in a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward.
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Expansion Diffusion
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A form of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals are affected.
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Contagious Diffusion
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A pattern in which the main channel of diffusion is some segment of those who are susceptible to what is being diffused.
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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It holds that human behavior, individually and collectively, is strongly affected by - even controlled or determined by- the physical environment.
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Environmental determinism? Provide an example.
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The natural environment merely serves to limit the range of choices available to culture.
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Possibilism? Provide an example.
