ITS 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ural Mountains, Pushback, Robert Schuman
2 Mar 2018
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Geography: a study of the activities of people as well as a study of the physical earth itself. Related to migration, river, human society, and natural environment. Takes on different meanings in different languages. Human geography: studies the activities of people including immigration, finance (origins and flow), internet access, cities, cultures, and transportation. Physical geography: studies our environment focusing on topics such as soil, climates, plants, and animals. Regions mental constructs with which people identify. Environment human interaction with natural surroundings. Nominal name of a place (oxford) Relative distance from 1 location to another. Spatial interaction: analyzing flows, interdependence, underlying structure (movement of flows across space: flows (goods, financial aid, debt, humans) people in different places depend on each other for different things; things do(cid:374)"t flo(cid:449) (cid:449)ithout stru(cid:272)ture. Spatial organization: the delineation of territory in terms of organization. Region: mental constructs with which people identify. Formal (uniform) region: an area in which similar human of physical characteristics exist (rocky.
