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| - study of the relationships between people and the places and spaces in which they live. |
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| - total way of life held in common by a group of people, including such learned features such as speech, ideology, behavior, livelihood, etc. Way of life; Ever-changing process in which a group is actively engaged. Dynamic mix of signals, beliefs, speech, & practices. You do not recognize when it is happening. (you inhabit your culture like a fish in water) |
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| culture region (what are the types) |
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pecific cultures do not limit their coverage to specific borders.
3 types of culture region :formal, functional, and vernacular |
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| area inhabited by people who have one or more cultural traits in common (trait is dominant). language, religion, |
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| area tied together by coordinating system; organized to function politically, socially, or economically as a unit. |
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| “dixie”, lacking distinct borders, perceived to exist by inhabitants. |
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A culture complex is a closely related set of culture traits
— Some links are historical
— Spanish settlement in 16th through 19th century à Texas has a tradition of ranching
— Some links are causal
— Proximity to Mexico means that Texas receives more immigrants from Mexico and other parts of Latin America making it part of a Spanish language region
— So the association of Spanish language with ranching in the US is a consequence of geographical processes and patterns operating in the past and present |
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| the spread of elements of culture from one point of origin over an area. |
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barriers that might slow or stop diffusion from spreading
Diffusion decreases with distance and the acceptance generally decreases with distance and time (time-distance decay)
Absorbing barriers completely halt diffusion (1988 Islamic Taliban abolishes tv, recorders, and video tapes, so cultural diffusion was reversed. The important role of tv as a communication device to assist in spreading ideas was eliminated)
Permeable barrier allowing part of the innovation wave to diffuse through but acting to weaken the continued spread (ex: high school may ban body marking and piercings but that can be changed over time as people become used to seeing body modifications) |
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| an opposition to the idea of cultural diffusion and involves the lack of barriers. (same culture: language, religion, etc. necessary infrastructure, abundance of money, property, and other material goods) |
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| movement of people, ideas, or things from one location outward toward other locations where these items are not initially found. |
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| - when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland. Religions are frequently spread this way. (ex. migration of Christianity) |
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| wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious disease, moving throughout space without regard to hierarchies. |
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| - ideas leapfrog from one important person or place to another or from one urban center to another, temporarily bypassing other persons or rural territories. |
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| when a specific trait is rejected but the underlying idea is accepted. (example: McDonald’s in India that serves lamb burgers) |
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| artificial landscape; the visible human imprint on the land (buildings, roads, other structures & edifices) |
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| study of the relationships between physical environment and culture; study of culture as an adaptive system that facilitates human adaptation to nature and environmental changes. |
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| relationship of various elements within a culture. |
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| environmental determinism |
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| belief that cultures are directly or indirectly shaped by the physical environment. |
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| thought based on the belief that humans are the primary active force; any environment offers a number of different possible ways for a culture to develop and the choice is guided by cultural heritage. |
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| the unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment; those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life -- food, clothing, shelter, and defense |
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| where culture traits show up strongest |
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| periphery of culture region |
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| farther from core, culture traits are weaker |
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| judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture. |
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| the way which cartographers portray the spherical globe on paper |
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| the graticule of a globe portrayed on a cylindrical surface. Parallels retain their straight-lined shape, but areas near the poles (like Greenland) are grossly distorted. Mercator Projection is an example |
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| A method of projecting maps of parts of the earth's spherical surface on a surrounding cone, which is then flattened to a plane surface having concentric circles as parallels of latitude and radiating lines from the apex as meridians. |
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| flat projection. Usually used to portray the poles and countries adjacent to them. Have the property of yielding true compass directions; useful for navigation purposes |
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| the art/profession of map making |
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| language of cartography. Reading and interpreting a map based on how the cartographer projected it. cartography (or map-making) is the study and practice of making representations of the earth on a flat surface. |
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| 7th century map that portrays the physical world at that time. Large T with O surrounding it. land mass makes the upside down T shape, Asia is oriented on the upper side. surrounding O = ocean |
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| a type of map or chart especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation, or continent. |
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| thematic map in which areas are shaded or colored in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map, such as population density or per- capita income |
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| is a map in which some thematic mapping variable – such as travel time or Gross National Product – is substituted for land area or distance. The geometry or space of the map is distorted in order to convey the information of this alternate variable |
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| A line on a map, chart, or graph connecting points of equal value. |
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| equal interval classification scheme |
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| entire range of values (max,min) is divided equally into how many categories chosen |
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| quantile classification scheme |
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| classifies data into a certain number of categories with an equal number of units in each category |
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| small, cohesive, stable, isolated, nearly self sufficient group; homogeneous in race/culture |
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| constitutes original inhabitants of territory (differs from national culture which is colonized) |
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| A dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; producing and consuming machine-made goods. |
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| Structures built by members of a folk society or culture in a traditional manner and style, without the assistance of professional architects or blueprints, using locally available raw materials. |
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To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style
Also, rejection or appropriation of folk culture |
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| The binding together of all the lands and peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by capitalist free markets, in which cultural diffusion is rapid, independent states are weakened, and cultural homogenization is encouraged. |
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| A spatial standardization that diminishes regional variety; may result from the spread of popular culture, which can diminish or destroy the uniqueness of place through cultural standardization on a national or even worldwide scale. |
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| landscapes of consumption |
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| Aspects of the popular landscape such as huge shopping malls, urban strips, that reflect the overpowering consumerist mentality of popular culture. |
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| study of characteristics of human populations such as size, growth, density, distribution, and visual statistics |
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| The number of people in an area of land, usually expressed as people per square mile or per square kilometer. |
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| The annual number of births per thousand population. |
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| The annual number of deaths per 1000 persons in the population. |
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| annual natural change of population |
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| BR-DR as a percentage, allows to compare multiple countries |
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| Total Fertility Rate (TFR) |
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| The number of children the average woman will bear during her reproductive lifetime (15-49 years old). A TFR of less than 2.1, if maintained, will cause a natural decline of population. |
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| China’s method of population reduction (or control) by only allowing one child per family instating severe tax consequences for those who break the law. |
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| A graph used to show the age and sex composition of a population. |
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| a group of individuals of the same age or belonging to the same age group. Groups can be compared to find statistics pertaining to medicine, ecology, social science, etc. |
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| The number of infants per 1000 live births who die before reaching one year of age. |
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| After the one-child policy was passed in China, many parents would selectively abort a female fetus in favor of male fetuses. ←this doesn't only happen in China |
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| demographic transition/transformation |
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| refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. This is typically demonstrated through a demographic transition model. |
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| “La revanche des berceaux” |
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| “The revenge of the cradle”, that is, the revenge of the French in Quebec who grew their population 140 times over from 20,000 in 1720 to nearly 2.8 million in 1930. They had a lot of babies. |
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• English’s ability to multiply far exceeds our ability to increase food production
• Maintained that “a strong economist and cleric who published “An Essay on the Principle of Population”
• Believed that the human aband constantly operating check on population” will necessarily act as a natural control on numbers |
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| describes how unchecked population growth is exponential (1→2→4→8) while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical (1→2→3→4). Malthus believed there were two types of "checks" that could then reduce the population, returning it to a more sustainable level. He believed there were "preventive checks” such as moral restraints (abstinence, delayed marriage until finances become balanced), and restricting marriage against persons suffering poverty and/or defects. Malthus believed in "positive checks", which lead to 'premature' death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is called a Malthusian catastrophe. The catastrophe would return population to a lower, more "sustainable", level. The term has been applied in different ways over the last two hundred years, and has been linked to a variety of other political and social movements, but almost always refers to advocates of population control. |
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| What are some of geography’s cognate disciplines? |
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Political science, economics, urban planning, theology, linguistics
geography draws off of different disciplines
Political, economic, urban, religious, language<--in first sentence of intro in book
These provide theories, data, funding sources, etc
there are also physical cognate disciplines like geology, ecology and biology |
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| What are some of the specialized topical or thematic interests within human geography? |
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Bible geographers, wine geographers, political geographers, economic geographers, dry-land geomorphologists, even paleopedologists (people who study ancient bits of soil trapped and preserved like fossils)
Most geographers also have a regional specialty
Your prof is mainly known for his topical specialty (communication geography), and has a regional focus in North America and Europe |
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| Region, Mobility, Nature-Culture, Cultural Landscape, Globalization |
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| geographical unit based on characteristics and functions of culture; are formal, functional and vernacular |
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| patterns of movement in regions with people, ideas, practices etc.; diffusion, circulation and migration |
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| world of increasingly linked ideas in which international borders are diminished in importance and a worldwide marketplace is created; initiated by the jet plane, communication and digital media; geodemography- Growing interdependency and increasing diffusion |
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how people inhabit the earth and their relationships to the physical environment; complex interaction among humans and everything in the environment
· Analysis of the effects on culture
· Concern regarding human impacts on the environment
· Problem with strict divide between nature and culture |
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comprised of all the built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting the earth (ex. Roads, fields, cities)
· Demonstration of culture that reveal human-environment relationships |
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Write a geographical question about Austin that does not focus on location (where is something).
- location, process,causality, conceptual |
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In Austin’s five o’clock traffic, which route is the best to avoid traffic?
What causes Austin’s drag rate population to be increasingly high?
What’s the significance of the motto “Keep Austin Weird”?
What is the terrain like in Austin?
What is the dominant political ideology in Austin? |
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area inhabited by people who have one or more traits in common such as language, religion or system of livelihood
Relatively homogeneous area dependent on multiple shared traits
Different borders because no two traits have the same border
Core-periphery pattern |
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not culturally homogeneous and is an area that has been organized to function politically, socially or economically as one unit ex. city, state, parish, the E.U.
Usually have clearly defined borders
Node as central point |
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one that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants as evidenced by the widespread acceptance and use of a special regional name ex. The valley, the South
Gives people a sense of belonging
Usually not cultural homogeneity |
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| What do you call a region in which people all share a particular culture trait? |
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| What do you call a region that is tied together by a system of some kind (political, economic, transportation, etc.? |
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| What kind of region is "Dixie"? |
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Vernacular Region
Former Confederate States |
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| Why can't geographers agree on a single set of boundaries to divide the world into culture regions? |
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Regions are constantly changing as people, ideas, practices, and technologies move around.
Culture has a lot of different variables, so it varies on what you’re viewing.
Increasing convergence because of globalization. |
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| List the most important artifact, mentifact, and sociofact (in your opinion) that define American culture. |
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Statue of Liberty, Eagle “Freedom”, Supreme Court
Hamburger, McDonald’s, fast food industry
Constitution, Freedom, market economy |
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| What are the direct and indirect geographical implications of the traits you listed above? |
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Statue of Liberty- direct: NY; indirect: America
Eagle- direct: wilderness; indirect: America
Supreme Court- direct: Washington DC; indirect: America |
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| Individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland. |
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| Ideas leapfrog from one important person to another. (Obama Speaking at the U.N.) |
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| Wavelike spread of ideas in a contagious disease. (The idea of democracy in the “Arab Spring”) |
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| A trait is rejected but the underlying idea is accepted. McDonald’s in India serving lamb burgers |
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| Ideas/practices spread throughout a population in a snowballing process, so that the number of knowers/users and the area of occurrence increase. |
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| folk & indigenous cultures |
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1) interpersonal transmission
2) traditional, conservative, stable
3) clear social roles
4) community oriented
5) based around a specific place |
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1) spread through mass media
2) changing culture and cultural values
3) vague and flexible social roles
4) individualism
5) not tied to a specific place (or less so, Whataburger is still part of the Southern Popular Culture) |
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| folk & indigenous cultures |
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DIFFUSION. Traditional culture diffuses through relocation. (ex. Jews moving to the US and bringing their traditions with them.)
-FAMILY. Traditional tends to be patriarchal, the woman’s sphere of influence is the household, limit education on women, high fertility rate, etc.
-FOOD. Traditional tend to go for what is available in their local environment.
-HOUSING. Traditional use building materials that are available in the local environment and are typically built from memory. Traditional housing is also extremely well adapted to its environment.
-IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT. Traditional have very little impact. They follow subsistence agriculture, few industries, no extensive usage of natural resources, little pollution, etc. |
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Diffusion - Popular culture diffuses via any kind of expansion diffusion. (ex. going to the most connected places. the media facilitates the spreading of popular culture. from there it diffuses contagiously. then by stimulus diffusion to break cultural barriers)
Family - Popular culture tends to diminish gender differences, women seek higher education levels along with men, reduced fertility rate, families tend to be smaller and less intimate.
Food - Popular tend to go with foods that are fast to make and attractive. (ex. McDonald’s, frozen meals, chips, etc)
Housing - Popular housing is developed more efficiently and with architectural measurements. Mixture of materials in the same style to help reduce building costs yet improve quality and make appearance appealing to all.
Impact on Environment - Popular have a large impact on the environment. Extensive use of natural resources, large consumer markets, commercial agriculture, large industries, and high pollution. |
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| Describe the distortions of the Mercator projection (for a discussion of projections see the intro in your atlas). |
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| The earth is curved and the straight line would represent a further distance. The area gets larger as you move toward the north pole. Stretches the polar regions |
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| Explain what the Mercator projection is good for and why it became so popular. |
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| Maritime navigation. Since all coastal lines are their true shape, longitude and Latitude lines intersect at proper angles. Also, Europe is enlarged with England at the center of the map. |
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| What areas are often portrayed with planar (azimuthal) projections? |
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North and south poles and small scale continental mapping
Often used for air travel because they yield true compass direction
azimuth = the line on a compass bearing |
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| What areas are often portrayed with conic projections? |
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Mid/High latitudes
Areas with North-South extent
European Countries
The north or south poles
The U.S. |
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| How is the imaginary cylinder usually oriented when creating a cylindrical projection? |
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The term "normal cylindrical projection" is used to refer to any projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced vertical lines and circles of latitude (parallels) are mapped to horizontal lines.
The mapping of meridians to vertical lines can be visualized by imagining a cylinder whose axis coincides with the Earth's axis of rotation. This cylinder is wrapped around the Earth, projected onto, and then unrolled.
By the geometry of their construction, cylindrical projections stretch distances east-west. The amount of stretch is the same at any chosen latitude on all cylindrical projections, and is given by the secant of the latitude as a multiple of the equator's scale. The various cylindrical projections are distinguished from each other solely by their north-south stretching |
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| What kind of map projection preserves distances, directions, and areas just as they are on the globe? |
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| What is a “compromise projection”? |
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A projection that compromises both land area and land shape to make the map more accurate (Robinson Projection is one kind)
distorts everything in order to make it seem more accurate. |
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| In what ways (other than choice of projection) do cartographers reveal their biases? |
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The kind of chart scheme they use to categorize data (equal interval & quantile)
Choose which country is in middle
Can show regions only recognized by some groups--OR leave out regions |
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| How is an isoline map different from a choropleth map? |
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| An isoline map is a map with continuous lines joining points of the same value, as in elevation maps. It is used to interpret information on some thematic maps, while choropleth maps use some existing system of boundaries, and show spatial variation of one or two variables at a time by using color, shades of grey and/or patterns.` |
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| How might the Mormon religion function as a barrier to diffusion? |
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Their views would block certain influences due to their moral beliefs, traditional beliefs (ex. Starbucks and other coffee shops as well as other caffeine beverages would not be widespread amongst Mormons)
We do not drink coffee, tea, or alcohol (but I totally still go to Starbucks and get some yummy chocolate chip frappuccinos) and we can have soda/coke. Generally, most Mormons choose to dress in a modest fashion, so short shorts, bikinis, and tank tops would be avoided as well. |
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| Globalization is likely to be equated with Americanization when people consider certain aspects of globalization—what are these aspects? |
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Local Consumption Cultures - the consumption practices and preferences - in food, clothing, music, and so on - formed in specific places and historical moments.
Cultural convergence- regional cultures merge to form indistinguishable culture boundaries (like we have in the US for the most part)
OR (below) from lecture
· Growing interdependency among distant places (global US companies and US resources) <-trade
· Accelerating diffusion between places (Western technology)
· Dependency and unevenness (foreign goods) |
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| What is striking about geographies of beverage consumption as one travels from Colorado to California? |
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the highest per capita levels of beer consumption occur in the west. Whiskey, manufactured legally and illegally, has been a traditional southern alcoholic beverage, whereas wine is more common in California due to the vineyards.
less alcohol and caffeine consumed in Mormon regions but more in Las Vegas region
Demographic of soda beverages differ from region to region (i.e. more dr.pepper is sold in the south whereas more coke is sold in the north)( coke/ dr. pepper in the south and pepsi in the north is probably more accurate) |
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| Give three different examples of cultural modernization in which traditional culture traits have been altered to give them popular appeal. |
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Sami people added modern harmonies to traditional music
Maasai wear Rolex watches and glass beads
Rodeos in American Southwest=Rodeo; cowboy contests on Great Plains became formalized with prizes
change in emphasis of religion - hellfire, and brimstone less common than before
Taco bell claiming to be Mexican food (i.e. taco bell is not traditional Mexican food)
Panda Express is totally not legit Chinese food, but catered to the American consumer |
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| What are the differences between indigenous culture and folk culture? |
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| The folk culture has been transplanted somewhere else. The indigenous culture is located in its original position. |
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| Name and locate ten different folk or indigenous culture regions that can still be found in North America. |
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1. Quebec French- Quebec
2. Acadian French- Louisiana and New Brunswick (above Maine)
3. Yankee- New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
4. Upper Canada- Toronto (above Great Lakes)
5. Pennsylvanian-Pennsylvania
6. Upland Southern
7. Mexican- Border of Mexico and Texas
8. Highland Hispanic- New Mexico and Colorado
9. Mormon- Utah and Idaho
10. Mountain Western
11. African American- North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
12. Plains Ranch
13 Ukrainian- Canada |
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| Describe some of the elements of Sami culture, including the group’s location and economy, then explain some of the ways (legal, economic, political, expressive) that Sami culture has been able to persist to the present day. |
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| -Russia, Sweden, Finland, Norway. Samis are allowed political representation in parliament in some countries and reindeer herding is legally reserved for Sami in Norway and Sweden. Their traditional music has been modernized for popular culture. |
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| When traditional culture undergoes modernization there can be borrowing in either direction as well as cultural hybridization and open struggle to assert certain ways to doing things. Give examples of all of these processes. |
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-Modernizing Maasai beads: now they are made of glass from 19th century European traders
modern melodies in regional music |
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| What are some issues included in the geography of sports? |
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Hockey and snow skiing not as common in warmer climates
rivalry of sports/teams
football more popular in certain regions
Soccer more common in areas outside of US.
Example.... Baseball less likely to diffuse in Europe due to existing culture... i.e. cricket |
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| What is the approximate population of the world today and when was the world population half this size? |
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7 billion; 1950
**my TA told us between 1960-1975 (so around 1967)
in the 60s, about |
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| What is the approximate population of the US today? |
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| Describe the four stages of the demographic transition in terms of BR, DR, natural population growth rate, and population size. |
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Stage 1 - BR & DR both high and fluctuating
Stage 2 - Fall in DR and increase in population size.
Stage 3 - Population stability through declining BR
Stage 4 - BR and DR low, population size high and stable |
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| What happens to population in a region when the BR exceeds the DR? |
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| There will be an overall increase, population explosion |
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| From the 19th century to the present, how has the demographic transition affected migration to the US? |
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In the beginning, migration was mostly Western Europeans (Irish, Germans, Italians) then it shifted to Eastern Europeans, and then in modern day it has been mostly Asian and Latin/Central American migration. As their quality of life in the home country gets better, the migration patterns shift to more developing countries.
Timing of demographic transition affects waves of immigrants to the US |
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| Besides population, what else in the society changes when a society goes through the demographic transition, and what is the connection between culture and the demographic transition? |
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| Culture becomes more technological and eventually develops into pop culture during the transition: urbanization, persistence of traditional unequal gender roles, conflict over social values and lifestyles after the transition: economic development, decline in conflicts over land, more egalitarian construction of gender roles and identities |
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| Where would you expect to find a relatively young population in terms of average age? Why? |
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| Africa. High total fertility rate and low life expectancy. Also in Latin America and Tropical Asia--In transitional stage of industrialization |
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| Where would you expect to find a relatively old population in terms of average age? Why? |
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| Europe. Low total birth rate, higher standard of living. Retirement community. Developed country (post-industrial). NIPPON. |
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| What is indicated when a population pyramid looks like: a column, a pyramid, a wine glass? |
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column: no growth/replacement; stable
pyramid - rapid growth; lots of young people
wine glass-major decline; lots of old people |
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| Why would a population pyramid get narrower toward its base? |
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The TFR is less than 2.1, meaning the population is declining
if its a retirement community (younger population) or if people had less children |
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| Why is population growth “our problem” even though it is occurring mainly in Africa and Asia? |
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`They are using up the worlds resources; US is a political influence with the technology and a whole lot of resources to solve problems
we just need to stop being greedy and consuming so much |
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| What mentifacts and sociofacts help explain why girls are scarcer than boys in certain parts of Asia? |
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mentifact: female infanticide; they want a boy to carry on the family name
sociofact: One Child Policy; men are dominant |
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| How does the diffusion of Western technology (artifacts) relate to this situation? |
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| Birth control, abortions, and medical technology are used to control birth rates. Furthermore (going back to China) western technology (ultrasound machines) can make controlling the gender of your child possible. Also Pro-Choice ideas of Western culture affecting people in other parts of the world (like China). |
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| When a minority is oppressed, what effect does this often have on their TFR? |
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The minority re-populates and tries to become a majority to end their oppression.
Example: the Revenge of the Cradle in Quebec |
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| Name a population that had a tremendously high rate of natural increase that declined when it achieved political power. |
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Definition
China went from 5.9 to 1.7
Quebec too? |
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| When life is unstable and insecure what effect does this often have on the TFR? |
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Definition
| It increases because population or children are sometimes seen as a security blanket. |
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| Why is population growing fastest in parts of the world that are least capable of supporting extra population? (this requires a detailed explanation) |
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Definition
| Having more children may be a response to various forms of vulnerability and insecurity (economical, political, and demographic). People in many poor countries are faced with a highly uncertain future (periodic food shortages, lack of employment, political instability, diseases, and lack of health care). They “insure” themselves by having more children, especially in agricultural economies where farm labor is essential. Leaders often advocate bigger families to bolster their security (power in numbers). |
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| Why is the demographic impact of a disease not always easy to predict? |
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Definition
| Because sometimes population increases in response to disease instead of declining. This goes back to groups of people creating children as their security blankets. |
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| How important is the education of women in regard to the overall demographic pattern in a country? |
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Definition
very important because it leads to lower fertility rates
The more educated women are, the more likely they are to take birth control or gain a better understanding of the reproductive system or the fact that they do not need to have so many children, and thereby they won’t.
with education, they are more capable to enter the workforce, and having a job decreases the likelihood of having many children |
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| Why is it important to understand demography if one wants to understand geography in general? |
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Definition
People are intricately connected to the places they inhabit. People affect the environment and the environment affects people/cultures. (Nature-Culture)
Migrations of populations have different effect on geography |
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