HIST 1003 Chapter : GEOG 1001
Document Summary
Geography and geography inquiry: physical: landforms, climate, soil, vegetation, hydrology, human: spatial analysis of economic, social, and cultural systems, thematic/systematic geography: environment, population, settlement, cultural differentiation, geopolitics, economics, regional geography: book is divided into 12 regions . Making sense of the world through categorization: no region homogenous, borders are fuzzy. Formal regions: distinct boundaries based on measurable shared or uniform traits (counties, cities, states, and countries, language, income, religion, elevation, or climate) Functional regions: a certain activity or organization defined by a system of interactions. Defined by people"s feelings and attitudes about an area. Frequently influenced by travel, media, books, films, and conversations. Used by the public to refer to a general areas. Location: implies a higher degree of certainty than place. Place: refers to an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying on human/social attributes: space: product of and produced by cultural and physical interaction. Scale: size and extent of the area, contains various levels of analysis.
