GEOG 130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Developing Country, Encomienda, Imperialism

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Geographical Sciences
• Course: GEOG 130
• Professor: Luna

Document Summary

Study of interaction of all physical/human phenomena at play. How interactions among places form patterns and organize space. Examines how, why, and where interaction occurs between humans and the environment. Scale: dimension of how we examine/impact of a physical/human phenomena, social/physical processes operate at different scales (global/macro, regional, nation/state, community/micro, processes interact across various scales. Time: temporal scale (compares two different places at a specific period, compare a place through history, why two cities evolved differently over time) Place: centers around relationship to other places, can also describe human/physical characteristics of location. Space: concerns movement through distance and time and creation of space. Relative: location of a place in relation to other places. Limited economic development, socioeconomic problems, lack of stable political structure, dependency on industrialized countries. Began and political 3rd option to democracy or communism (1952: for countries unwilling to side with washington or moscow. Used as a term of resistance by india, egypt, yugoslavia (1950s)