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| What are the two main questions geographers ask themselves? |
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| Where things are and why they are there |
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| What two factors draw people together yet also pull them apart? |
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| People are being pulled in opposite directions by globalization and local diversity |
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| What is the literal meaning of the word geography? |
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| Based on the two Greek words, "geo" meaning "Earth", and "graphy" meaning "to write" |
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| Why can't the field of Human Geography exist without studying physical geography? |
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| Because human geography is the study of where and why human activities occur, and physical geography is the study of where and why natural forces occur. |
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| What is the most important tool that helps geographers analyze information? |
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| List the names, dates and contributions of the people who are critical contributors to the study of cartography. |
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- Thales applied principles of geometry to measure land area in 624 BC.
- Aristotle was the first to demonstrate that Earth was spherical (384 - 322 BC)
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| Why is it impossible to include every detail on a map? |
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| There is not enough space |
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| What invention made it possible for us to gather information about precise locations on earth? |
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| How does GPS help people in the air? Land? |
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| people in the air can stay on course and it can detect vehicles' current positions on land |
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| Polynesian navigation different than our navigation today? |
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| we have electronic devices and GPS but 3000 years ago we only had hard to read maps |
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| List five toponyms in the Santa Clarita Valley. What do these place names tell us? |
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| The Old Road, Newhall, McBean, Castaic, placerita |
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| What is the literal meaning of the word culture? |
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| The sum of attitudes customs and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people |
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| What are the two main areas of culture that Geographers focus on? |
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| What are the most common jobs found in LDCs (Less Developed Countries) and MDCs (More Developed Countries)? |
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| Most people in MDCs have manufacturing jobs and the most common jobs in LDCs are agriculture |
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| How are people of different income levels treated differently in the aftermath of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina? |
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| Most people in mainly white areas were back in their homes after Hurricane Katrina, but less than two thirds of African-American neighborhoods were receiving mail |
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| What are the four main biomes and give a brief description of each. |
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- Forest biomes have trees, grasses and shrubs
- Savanna biomes have a lot of sun and are in Africa, South Asia, South America, and Australia
- Grassland biomes are covered in grass and have low precipitation
- Desert biomes are very hot and have no vegetation
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| Explain how the Dutch have modified their environment. |
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they modified their environment with polders and dikes |
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| Explain how globalization is present in your life. |
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| Globalization is present in my life such as English being the universal language |
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| Give an example of the globalization of culture. |
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| Generally, people aspire to watch TV, drive a car, and own a house |
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| Give an example of how groups fight against globalization |
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| How do patterns in space vary according to gender and ethnicity? |
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| Because of all of the different cultures around the world |
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| Scottish environmentalist developed a way to determine where new houses and roads should be built in the 1960s |
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| An English clockmaker who created the first portable clock in the 1700s |
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| The regional studies was adopted by Carl Sauer (1889 - 1975), an American geographer |
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| German geographer, Alexander von Humboldt proposed to other human geographers to use the methods of scientific inquiry. (1769 - 1859) |
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| A German philosopher who compared geography's concern for space to history's concern for time. (1724 - 1804) |
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| proposed to other human geographers to use methods of scientific inquiry. He was a German geographer. (1779 - 1859) |
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| German geographer who claimed that geography was the study of the influences of the natural environment on people. (1844 - 1904) |
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| American student who claimed that geography was a study of influences of the natural environment on people (1863-1932) |
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| German climatologist who developed a system to classify climates |
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| A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic |
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| an area of Earth distinguished by distinctive combination of cultural and physical features |
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| the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole |
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| the physical gap between two objects |
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| The scientific method of transferring Earth's locations to a flat map |
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| Divided much of the country into a system of townships |
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| The system that accurately determines the precise position of something on Earth |
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| The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting Earth |
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| A computer system that can capture store query analyze and display Geographic data |
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| The position that something occupies on Earth's surface |
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| The name given to a place on Earth |
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| The physical character of a place |
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| the location of a place relative to other places |
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| An arc between the North and South Poles |
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| Location of a meridian according to a number surface |
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| Number system to indicate the location of a parallel |
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| A combination of cultural features as language and religion |
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| An internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface |
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The geographic study of
human-environment relationships |
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| Environmental determinism |
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| Physical environment caused social development |
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| The physical environment may limit some human actions |
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| A piece of land that is created by draining water from an area |
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| Is force or process that involves the entire world |
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| Transnational Corporation |
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| Conducts research, operates factories and sells products in many countries |
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| The frequency in which something occurs in space |
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| The total number of objects in an area |
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| The number of people per unit of area suitable for agriculture |
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| The number of farmers per unit of area of farmland |
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| The geometric arrangement of objects in space |
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| The reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place |
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| an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics |
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| The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another |
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| An area organized around a node or focal point |
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| The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
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| The language or dialect spoken by The Ordinary People in a particular country or region |
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| The spread of an idea from people or nodes of Authority or power to other people or places |
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| When contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappearsp |
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| The rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
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| The process by which characteristic spreads across space from one place to another overtime |
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| The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse |
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| The place from which an innovation originates |
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| The increasing Gap in economic conditions between regions in the core and periphery that results from the globalization of the economy |
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