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Why is geography important?
- independence of the world
- global communications
- places and regions
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Physical geography
weather patterns, landforms
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human geography
population change, human diseases, environmental pollution
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latitude
left to right (equator)
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longitude
up and down (meridian)
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absolute location
exact location with coordinates
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relative location
location in relation to something else
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site
physical attributes like terrain or water source
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situation
- location of a place relative to other places
- accessibility to water or closeness to population centers
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cognitive images
the map in your head
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absolute distance
exact physical distance in miles
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relative distance
expressed by time, effort, or cost
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cognitive distance
how we personally feel it is
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friction of distance
- time and cost to overcome that movement
- harder to get there, the less you go
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distance-decay function
rate at which activity goes down with an increase in distance
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absolute space
volume or surface area
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relative space
- large or small
- region (pacific northwest)
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cognitive space
how we personally see and interpret the space
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accessibility
the easier to get to something the more likely you'll go more often
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connectivity
how we connect places with other places
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complementary
supply from one place, demand in another
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transferability
- cost of movement
- moving coal or glass
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time-space convergence
places move closer together due to travel or communication
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intervening opportunites
determine volume of pattern, movement and flow, obstacles and how you think places interact
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spatial diffusion
how something spreads over space and time
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expansion diffusion
how ideas or language spread, based on proximity
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hierachial diffusion
allows skipping from one location to another
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hearth areas
geographic settings where new practices have developed and from which they have spread
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Four main hearth areas
- Middle East- Jordan, Israel, Turkey
- South Asia- Bangladesh, Burma
- China
- Americas - Mexico, and Eastern America
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Core regions
- those that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.
- ex. Holland, England, France
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Peripheral Regions
- dependent and disadvantageous trading relationships
- 3rd world countries
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semiperipheral region
- are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominated
- 2nd world
- Brazil, South Korea
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sustainability
interdependence of the economy, the environment, and the social well being.
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silk road
- connected hearth areas. links eastern Europe to the far east
- Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, India, china, Japan
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