World Geography study guide

A body of thought that emphasizes that humans and nonhumans are linked together in a dynamic set of relations that in turn influences humab behavior is known as

Actor-Network Theory

A formal region is

An area that possesses one or more unifying cultural or physical traits

A functional region is

An area unified by a specific social, cultural, or economic activity

Which of the following statements about culture is incorrect

Culture is never tied to politics

The phrase ____ _______ Stem from the idea that culture is dynamic not fixed and can be contested

Culture wars

The tapering off of a process pattern or event over a distance is known as

Distance decay

Physical geography focuses primarily on

Environmental dynamics

Complementary stems from _____ ______

Spatial Variation

A good example of relative space and its contingent character is

The space of trade

Geographers recognize four diffrent types of diffusion: Relocation, contagious, hierarchical and simultaneous

False

Hierarchical diffusion is completely random

False

Political ecology studies how political forces and competition for resources influence human behavior

False

The most common system uses for indirect geoferencing is latitude and longitude

False

The most common type of relocation diffusion is

Migration

What makes actor- network theory so radical is that it challenges the idea that

People who have free will

The border of a _______ tend to be highly contested since people often have very personal reasons for percipience an area a certain way

Perceptual regions

A location distinguished by specific physical and cultural characteristics is a

Place

Reactions against environmental determinism in the early 20th century gave rise to ______ the view that people use their creativity to decide how to respond to the condition or constraints of a particular natural environment

Possiblism

________ _______ involves studying the distinctiveness of regions

Regional Analysis

Acquiring information about something that is located at a distance from you is known as

Remote sensing

The world Geography means

To write about earth

The cost of moving a good and the ability of the good to withstand that cost is called _______

Transferabilty

Cultural ecology is an important sub field within human geography which studies the relationship between people and the natural environment

True

Distribution is the arrangement of phenomena on or near earths surface

True

Globalization propels and is propelled by spatial interaction

True

Nature is the physical environment it is external to people and does not include them

True

The diffusion of H1N1 flu since April 2009 provides a good example of spatial diffusion

True

Understanding how and why the south differs from new England cultruality economically and politically is an example of regional analysis

True

Important subfield within geography that studies the relationship between people and the natural environment is

cultural ecology