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| Geographer's main concern is |
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| Tension between globalization and local diversity |
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| Countries work together for economic stability |
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| Businesses/ people within one area strive for economic success within their area |
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| Associated with cultural features |
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| the study of how humans shape a place by their traditions,culture, and beliefs. |
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| describing how language, religion, and economy remain constant |
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| used for specialized maps |
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| best to portray a small area |
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| well suited for larger areas; used for world maps |
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| What does a written map scale describe? |
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| the relation between map and earth distances in words ie 1 cm = 1,000 km |
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| a specific point on Earth distinguished by a specific characteristic ie. Westfield State |
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| an area of EARTH distinguished by a distinctive combination of cultural and physical features ie. New England or Western Mass.. |
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| the relationship between the portion of earth being studied and earth as a whole |
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| refers to the physical gap or interval between 2 objects ie. oceans and mountains |
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| relationships among people and objects across the barrier of space |
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| ratio or fraction on map shows... |
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| numerical ratio between distances on map and earth's surface |
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| how is geography distinguished from other disciplines |
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| reference tools (too find location) and communication tools (to show distribution of human and physical features) |
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| the acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth. these satellites scan earth's surface |
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| what happens to the remote sensed images |
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| they are transmitted in digital form to a receiving station on earth |
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| Geographic information sciences |
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| remote sensing, global positioning systems, and geographic information systems |
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| GPS (Global Positioning System) |
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| most commonly used for navigation. the satellites are placed in predetrmined orbits by the U.S military |
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| GIS (Geographic Information Systems) |
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| can be used to produce maps ie google maps, location based service such as store locator |
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| the position that something occupies on Earth's surface |
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| Four ways to identify location |
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| place name, site, situation, and mathematical location |
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| name given to a place on eath |
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| the physical characteristic of a place |
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| latin origin means to care for. has 2 aspects: what people care about (beliefs, values, and customs) and what people take care of (earning a living, obtaining food, clothing, and shelter) |
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| universal characteristics |
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| influence of some feature |
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| rely on mental conception of a place |
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| the geographic study of human environment relationships in terms of spatial association |
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| Types of cultural ecology perspectives |
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| environmental determinism and possibilism |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| the environment sets limits on humans |
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| modern geographers generally reject environmental determinism in favor of possibilism (everyone can be succesful despite of environment, background, race, or obstacles) |
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| the four physical processes :vegetation |
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| forest biome, savannah biome, grassland biome, desert biome |
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| canopy over the ground, grasses, and shrubs. very little sunlight |
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| trees do not form continuous canpy and the lack of shade allows grass to grow |
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| land is covered by grass rather than tress because of low precipitation |
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| desert areas with dispersed patches of plants adapted to dty conditions |
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| physical processes : climate regions |
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| tropical, dry, warm mid latitude, cold mid latitude, polar |
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| Give example of each climate region |
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| research performed and products made in many countries not just the hearth |
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| the spread of anything from a cultural trait, people, things, or ideas from some point of origin |
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| caused by the movement of people |
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| refers to growth of an ideaa to new areas thru a hierarchy (ie the berkshires used for nor not just groceries but other things too such as rent) |
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| popular notions or even contact ie trends that catch on |
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| spread of an underlying idea divorced from its original context |
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| thin layer of gases surrounding the earth |
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| all of the water on and near earth's surface |
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| earth's crust and a portion of upper mantle directly below the crust |
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| all living organisms on earth. abiotic vs biotic |
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