GEOG 1001 Midterm: GEOG1001 Exam 1.docx
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Geography- greek word geographia meaning writing the world . The study of global interconnections involving everything from how people earn a living to how they interact with the environment. Regions- large areas of the world that share similar cultural, environmental, economic, or political characteristics. System- a set of elements linked together so that changes in one element often result in changes in another. Systems characterize many of the relationships between regions, and govern how resources, products, and even ideas flow from one place to another. By thinking systematically, geographers gain a better grasp of how and why world regions come to be. That is, they affect, and are affected by, each other. By thinking about interdependencies, geographers can explain and predict how one region may respond to disruptions and transformation of other regions and the broader system. Today"s world regions are only the current configuration of an ongoing process of change.
