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What is Human Geography?
What is Physical Geography?
The study of physical phenomena on Earth.
What does Space refer to in geography?
How places and phenomena are laid out, organized, and arranged on the Earth.
What is Medical Geography?
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What is a Pandemic?
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What are the five themes of geography?
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What does Location refer to in geography?
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What is Human-Environment Interaction?
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What does Region refer to in geography?
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What does Place refer to in geography?
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What is Perception of Place?
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What does Movement refer to in geography?
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What does Landscape refer to in geography?
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What is Cultural Landscape?
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What is Sequent Occupance?
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What is Expansion Diffusion?
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What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
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What is Stimulus Diffusion?
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What is Distance Decay?
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What is Absolute Location?
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What is Relative Location?
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What does Environmental Determinism mean?
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What is Site?
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Study Notes
Human Geography Concepts
- Human Geography: Examines how people create places, organize society, interact across spaces, and understand their localities.
- Physical Geography: Focuses on the Earth's physical phenomena, such as landforms and climates.
- Space: Refers to the arrangement and organization of places and phenomena on Earth.
- Medical Geography: Involves mapping disease distribution, highlighting the significance of geography in health.
Disease and Geography
- Pandemic: A global outbreak of disease affecting multiple countries or continents.
- Epidemic: A regional outbreak of disease, impacting a specific area.
- Example of Medical Geography: Mapping the cholera outbreak in London illustrates the relationship between health and geography.
Geographic Themes
- Five Themes of Geography: Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.
- Location: The geographical position influencing events and activities; e.g., San Francisco's trade positioning on the bay.
- Human-Environment Interaction: Describes how human activities impact and alter the physical environment.
Place and Perception
- Place: The distinct characteristics of a location influenced by human actions.
- Perception of Place: How individuals view a location, such as business reluctance to move to Appalachia based on negative perceptions.
Movement and Landscape
- Movement: Involves the mobility of people, goods, and ideas on Earth.
- Landscape: The composite of natural features and human structures that shape a location.
- Cultural Landscape: The visible effects of human activity on the environment.
Cultural Dynamics
- Sequent Occupance: The cultural succession that leaves lasting impacts on an area, exemplified by New Orleans' diverse cultural influences.
- Various Types of Diffusion:
- Expansion Diffusion: Ideas spread from a central hearth while remaining strong.
- Contagious Diffusion: Affects nearly all adjacent individuals, similar to contagion.
- Hierarchical Diffusion: Spreads in a patterned manner, often from larger to smaller populations.
- Stimulus Diffusion: Adaptation of an idea primarily influenced by a specific culture's taboos.
Cultural Transmission
- Relocation Diffusion: Transfer of ideas through the movement of individuals who create them.
- Independent Invention: Cultural traits that emerge independently across different societies.
Geographic Principles
- Distance Decay: Describes how traits lose influence as they spread further from their origin.
- Absolute Location: Defined by coordinates, such as latitude and longitude.
- Relative Location: A place's location in relation to other places.
Environmental Perspectives
- Environmental Determinism: Theory suggesting human behavior is heavily influenced by the physical environment.
- Possibilism: Conflicts with determinism by stating that the environment limits, but does not dictate, cultural choices.
Geographic Concepts
- Site: The physical characteristics of a location chosen for various significant reasons (defensive, trade, etc.).
- Situation: A location's relative position and significance regarding surrounding areas.
- Toponym: The study of place names and their significance.
Geographic Regions
- Formal Region: Exhibits uniformity in specific characteristics, such as a desert.
- Functional Region: Defined by interactions and movements, such as a city and its suburbs.
- Perceptual Region: Subjective perception of a region, often influenced by historical and cultural contexts (e.g., the South).
Geographic Technologies
- Geographic Information System (GIS): A technological tool for layering spatial data to analyze relationships.
- Reference Maps: Display locations of geographic features.
- Thematic Maps: Illustrate specific themes or trends in geographic phenomena.
- Global Positioning System (GPS): Provides precise location information.
Map Projections
- Mercator Projection: Projects the Earth's surface onto a cylinder, maintaining direction but distorting size.
- Robinson Projection: Balances size and shape distortions but compromises on accurate directions.
- Remote Sensing: Techniques for observing and analyzing Earth's surface from a distance.
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