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
