GEOG 2051 Midterm: Geog2051 Exam1 AllNotes
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Brazil all day, baby: suggested that curiosity is a biological function the saber tooth tiger example of the man who just eats and sleeps vs. the man who knows where the cave is. Review: geography, human, physical, four spheres, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, five themes, location (where things are), place (characteristics and attributes that make a location unique), region (group of similar locations), movement/pathways, human-earth relationships. Just because it is theory, doesn"t mean it is true. You can never prove that anything is true with 100% certainty. Things should be challenged: systems theory, definition: a way to think about the nature of things, it is a very powerful way to think about things. An abstract way to think: the ideas are general, yet can be applied to many phenomenon, system, definition: a set of objects and their attributes that are linked together by flows of matter and energy.
