StudyAP Human Geography Notes Bartula 4/15/09 General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism‚ the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical
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Total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years Demographic momentum- where the large group of young people grow past childbearing age and the population decreases Crude death rate- aka mortality rate‚ number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population Infant mortality rate- number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births per year Natural increase- the difference between the crude
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navigation‚ search Geography | History of geography * Graeco-Roman * Chinese * Islamic * Age of Discovery * History of cartography * Environmental determinism * Regional geography * Quantitative revolution * Critical geography | | Critical geography takes a critical theory (Frankfurt School) approach to the study and analysis of geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being
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Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) Two themes in the development of humanism in geography Philosophical underpinnings The need for critique Liberalism
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Geopolitics is a component of human geography. To understand geopolitics we must first understand what is human geography. This is easier said than done‚ precisely because geography is a diverse and contested discipline—in fact‚ the easiest‚ and increasingly accurate‚ definition is that human geography is what human geographers do: accurate‚ but not very helpful. Geography is a peculiar discipline in that it does not lay intellectual claim to any particular subject matter. Political scientists
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Throughout history‚ geographical features have influenced the development of civilizations and regions. Geographic features have both promoted and limited interactions with other civilizations and regions. Geography is the study of the Earth and the relationship of humans with their environment. Two geographic features are the Nile River and the Sahara Desert. The Nile River is the longest river of the world. It is also considered the breadbasket of the world since it has provided the Egyptian
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The Soul Scarf It was a black-white scarf‚ and there were some blood-spots on it‚ but my grandfather still used it and preserved like a valuable object. I did not see my grandfather wear it always‚ but it always appeared on his neck when he had a meetings or important events. Every time I visited my grandfather‚ I saw him sit by himself in front of his house and looked at the scarf sadly. So‚ I once asked him about the scarf and its significance‚ but I just got the answer from my father later.
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PLATE #3: THE SITE NAGSASA (NAZASA) COVE‚ SAN ANTONIO ZAMBALES Rainforest Aetas and rocky beaches In the 1980s‚ the mountain slopes around Nagsasa Cove were covered with tropical rainforest and inhabited by Aeta people‚ as they were for hundreds of years. The shoreline was mostly rocky‚ with short patches of beach here and there. Some distance beyond the shore (as indicated in old maps of the cove) was a rich coral reef‚ prolific with all kinds of fish and marine life. There
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Chapter 27 Study Guide 1. The process of industrialism threatened traditional and social hierarchies in both societies. In Russia‚ the aristocracy was threatened by the abolition of serfdom‚ the creation of regional zemstvoes‚ and reforms of the army. In Japan‚ the samurai were almost destroyed by the fall of the shogunate‚ the destruction of feudalism‚ and military reform. Both nations used territorial expansion as a means of mollifying the aristocracy and building support for the imperial government
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living are dropping further behind the richest countries. The gap in incomes between the 20% of the richest and the poorest countries has grown from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 82 to 1 in 1995. 3. Increased trade and travel have facilitated the spread of human‚ animal and plant diseases‚ like HIV/AIDS‚ SARS and bird flu‚ across borders. The AIDS crisis has reduced life expectancy in some parts of Africa to less than 33 years and delays in addressing the problems‚ caused by economic pressures‚ have exacerbated
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