CHP. 1

VOCABULARY

• Local diversity-express unique traditions and economic practices
• Place-a specific point on the earth defined by it's unique characteristic
• Region- area distinguished by cultural and physical features, i.e. South
• Scale- point being studied and the entire earth
• Space-physical space between two points

MORE VOCABULARY

• Connections-relationships among people and stuff across the space
• Cartography-making of maps
• Distribution is the arrangement of a feature in space
• Density is the frequency with which occurs in space
• Arithmetic density is the total number of objects in an area

EVEN MORE VOCAB

• Physiological density is the number of people per square unit of area of land
• Agricultural density is the number of farmers per unit area of farmland
• Pattern is which is the geometric arrangement of objects in space
• Globalization a process that involves the entire world and results in making something world wide in scope
• Transnational corporation is a corporation that does buisness in regions that it is not headquartered in

EVEN MORE VOCAB

• Base line is the line lying east west that marks townships
• Concentration the spread of something in a given area
• Contagious diffusion rapid and widespread diffusion
• Cultural ecology geographic approach that emphasizes human enviorment relations
• Cultural landscape fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

TOO MUCH VOCAB .-.

• Culture the body of customary beliefs that constitute a groups distinct tradition
• Diffusion spreading a feature from one place to another over time
• Distance decay the diminishing importance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
• Enviormental determinism believing that the environment causes human activities
• Expansion diffusion the spread of something in a snowballing process

WAY TOO MUCH VOCAB

• Formal region is an area in which everyone shares one or more characteristics
• Functional region an area focused around one point
• GIS a computer system that deals with geographic data
• GPS a system that detrmins the precise position of something on earth
• GMT the time in the zone encompassing the prime meridian

WHY DO WE EVEN NEED THIS MUCH VOCAB

• Hearth the place where something originates
• Hirearcheal diffusion the kings doing it so, so should we
• International date line moves clocks forward toward asia or backward toward america
• Land ordinance of 1785 divides america into townships
• Latitude sideways

MAS VOCAB

• Longitude up down
• Map 2d representation of earth
• Mental map a persons impresion of a place
• Meridian an arc drawn between the n and s poles
• Parallel a circle parallel to the equator

VOCAB

• Polder dutch land created by draining water
• Possibilism believing that man isnt limmited by the environment
• Prime meridian 0 longitude
• Principal meridian land ordinance line designating the survaying and numbering of towns
• Projection transphering from earth to flat thing

THIS IS WHY YOU DONT DO CHAPTER ONE (MORE VOCAB)

• Regional studies type of geography that focuses on a particular area
• Relocation difusion the Amish
• Remote sensing satellites figuring out data about earths surface
• Section normally one mile on each side land ordinance 1785 divided the us into 36 sections
• Site physical character of a place

ALMOST DONE WITH VOCAB

• Space time compression basically communication between far places is easier now
• Stimulous diffusion the spread of an underlying principal even tho the idea is rejected
• Toponym the name of a place
• Uneven development basically the outskirts of a place are poorer than the core
• Vernacular region a place with no definate boundaries people believe to exist ie the south

GEOGRAPHERS

• Thales used geometry to measure land
• Anaximander made the first world map
• Hecateus made the first geography book in 500 bc
• Aristotle was the first to demonstraight that the world was round
• Eratosthenes was the first person to use the word geography

MORE GEOGRAPHERS

• Ptolemy wrote an eight volume guide to geography
• Phei Hsiu or Fei Xiu made an elaborate map of china
• Al-idrisi made a world map
• Ibn-Battutah wrote rihlah based on all his journeys
• Gerardus Mercator made more acurate maps

EVEN MORE GEOGRAPHERS

• Abraham Ortelius also made more acurate maps
• Bernhardus Varenius produced geographia generalis

KEY ISSUE 1

• Two reasons for maps
• Reference road maps, finding the shortest distance between two spots
• Communications tools Show the change of something Spread of disease or location

KEY ISSUE 2

• Place names make places unique
• Situation adds diversity
• Each places is located in different mathematical locations
• There are many types of regions
• What people care about and what they take care of are important

KEY ISSUE 3

• Globalization of economy
• Trans nationals are building the same buildings in different countries
• Mcdonalds
• 2008 and the first global recession
• New differences ie factories built in china closed in america

MORE KEY ISSUE THREE

• Globalization of culture
• More people dress the same
• More people want the same things speak the same language practice the same religion
• Some people hate globalization and prefer cultural diversity ie the Taliban
• Some people may want the same things but lack acces to the resources to get them

APPENDIX

• Three types of scales word graphic and fraction
• Maps can distort things
• There are different types of maps conic cylindral planar
• Mercator projection has ups and downs
• Gnomic progection has positves and negatives so does robinson

END