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23 Terms
What is Geography?
It is the study of the Earth, and (most) everything that goes on on it.
Why is Geography known as synthesizing discipline?
It is because it brings together many fields of study.
What are the five themes of Geography?
Location
Place
Human/Environment Interaction
Movement
Regions
What question does Location answer?
Where is it located?
What question does Place answer?
What's it like to be there?
What question does Human/Environment Interaction answer?
What is the relationship between humans and their environment?
What question does Movement answer?
How and why are places connected to each other?
What question does Region answer?
How and why is one area similar to another?
What are the four types of regions?
Administrative
Formal
Functional
Vernacular/Perceptual
What is Areal Differentiation?
It is identifying diversity between places.
What is Areal Integration?
It is identifying similarities between places.
What is the geographic definition of Space?
It is assumed to be universal, abstract, objective, and subject to scientific law.
What the geographic definition of Place?
It is a bounded space that humans assign meaning to; It is subjective, existential, and unique.
What is the population of the Earth?
7.4-7.5 Billion.
How did the population of the Earth reach the number that it is?
Through the evolution of technology and three main "revolutions" - the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the Medical Revolution.
What is the Total Fertility Rate?
It is the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.
What is the Crude Death Rate/Mortality Rate?
It is the number of deaths per 1000 people per year.
What is the Infant Mortality Rate?
It is the amount of deaths under age 1 per 1000 births.
What is the geographic definition of Scale?
The level at which an area is viewed geographically.
What is an Administrative region?
It is a legal area where certain laws apply.
What is a Formal region?
It is an area with one common, unifying feature.
What is a Functional region?
It is areas of connective unity that typically function as a unit.
What is a Vernacular/Perceptual region?
It is a less well-defined, more "invented" region that is perceived to exist.