Studying Human Geography

ARC INFO

________- Package developed by the private sector that is widely used by governments, industries, and universities.

Human geographers

________ did not begin paying serious attention to gender differences until the 1980s.

Agglomeration

________ describes situations in which locations are in close proximity to one another.

Feminist geographers

________ have usually accepted that gender is a social construction deriving largely from the natural category of biological sex.

Yi Fu Tuan

________ has written a series of books and articles that are phenomenological in focus.

Sexuality

________ and violence are seen as forms of social control over women.

Historical

________ and cultural geography usually emphasize time /chronological and spatial emphasizes the present.

Torsten Hägerstrand

________, a Swedish geographer, developed a series of diffusion- related concepts in 1953.

Reality

________ should be thought of as a text in which aspects are related.

Ethnocentrism

________ is the presumption that ones own culture is normal and natural and that other cultures are inferior.

Culture

________ is seen as a key factor in the construction of gender differences through various socialization processes.

Taxi fares

________ are determined not by physical distance but by the number of zones crossed throughout the ride.

Deglomeration

________ refers to situations in which those locations are characterized by separation from one another.

religion

Groups are defined by culture, ________, language, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality.

subjective procedure

A(n) ________ such as a participant observation does not provide any means for the researcher to objectively control the relationship between observer and observed.

spatial objects

Computers are generally only able to handle only characters and numbers, not ________ (lines, points, and areas)

spread of phenomenon

The ________ over space and growth through time is one way change occurs.

Movement

________ from one location in space to another usually entails an economic cost of one kind or another.

conventional camera

The ________ was the principal sensor used until the introduction of earth orbital satellites in the 1960s.

specific location

Dividing a large area into regions, or regionalization is a process of classification in which each ________ is assigned to a region.

Electromagnetic radiation

________ occurs naturally at a variety of wavelengths, and there are specific sensing technologies for the principal spectral region.

Truth

________ is relative and, for practical purposes, non- existent.

GPS

A(n) ________ is an instrument (either hand- held or installed in a personal computer) that uses signals emitted by satellites to calculate location and elevation.

Accessibility

________ refers to the relative ease with which a given location can be reached from other locations.

Modernism

________ is also closely linked to the Industrial Revolution as the rise of capitalism.

Marx

________ called for a socialist revolution in the form of a class struggle to overturn one mode of production and replace it with another under the control of the workers themselves.

Mainframe computers

________ may be used for especially large applications.

spatial interval

The ________ between points in space is the physical distance.

Phenomenology

________ seeks an empathetic understanding of the lived worlds of individual human subjects.

GISs

________ have numerous and varied applications in any context that may be concerned with spatial data.

Michel Foucault

Discourse has a more profound meaning derived from the work of the French social theorist ________.

quantitative techniques

Geographers use ________ for a wide variety of purposes.

Geographers

________ use the concept of spatial scale in three distinct ways.

Philosophy

________ guides us but does not necessarily provide all the tools we need.

Social science methodology

________ arose via the positivism that first appeared in the nineteenth century.

positive feelings

Refers to the ________ that link humans to particular environments.

Empiricism

________ typically sees knowledge acquisition as an ongoing process of verifying and, as necessary, correcting factual statements.

cartography

Computer- assisted ________ was conceived by Canadian geographer Roger Tomlinson (1933- 2014)

capitalist system

A(n) ________ tends to create depressed areas in any given country prompting uneven developmentDISCOURSE.

Postmodernism

________ rejects all the assumptions of modernism.

Satellite data

________ first alerted us to the changing patterns of atmospheric ozone in high- latitude areas.

Radical feminism

________ contends that gender differentiation results from gender inequality and that the subordination of women is separate from other forms of social inequality.

Positivism

________ and the quantitative procedures associated with it have a tendency to exclude the individual human element from research, preferring to focus on aggregate data; critics consider such work to be dehumanized human geography.

Globalization

________ is both a result and a cause of ever- increasing connectedness of places and peoples as economic, political, and cultural institutions and networks all combine to bring previously separated peoples and places together.

scale

A(n) ________ is a function of the particular type of study being conducted and thus reflects a philosophical preference.

Humanism

________ focuses on ________ as individual decision- makers, on the way ________ perceive their world, and emphasizes subjectivity in general.

Diffusion

________- centered research has long been central to cultural geography because of the need to understand landscape evolution.

rise of spatial analysis

The ________ n the 1960s caused the traditional concept of formal regions to decline /functional regions to increase in popularity.

Sofware production

________ has numerous products available for GIS users.

GIS activity

________ has made an explosion in culture since the early 1980s due to an increasing need for GIS and the increasing availability of personal computers.