GEOG 1HB3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Contour Line, Cartogram, Ecological Footprint
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Nodal: organized around a node of focal point, eg. Formal (a. k. a. uniform or homogenous: an area in which everyone shares one or more common characteristics, common characteristic could be: Chinatown, voting regions, provinces/territories: note: formal regions may be based on generalizations. In this case, it is important to remember that exceptions mey exist amidst generalizations. Vernacular (a. k. a. perceptual: a place that people believe is part of their cultural identity, based on informal sense of place, rather than scientific thought, eg. Christia(cid:374)s, je(cid:449)s a(cid:374)d musli(cid:373)s all (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e jerusale(cid:373) is (cid:862)theirs(cid:863) Globalization: (lecture definition): the increasing interconnectedness of both individuals and societies. Ecological footprint: land area needed to sustain an individual in a particular society. Distribution: the way that the locations of geographic phenomena are organized. Three forms of distribution: density: the frequency of occurance of a geographic phenomenon within a given space, concentration/dispersion: How geographic phenomena are spread over an area clustered (agglomerated) Unique types of maps (lecture 4: dot maps.
