GEA 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Environmental Determinism, Landform, Lapse Rate
8 Jun 2017
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Place names, physical environment (as a single entity), environmental determinism. False concepts in geography location, place, relationships within places, movement, regions. Fundamental themes in geography position on the earth"s surface. Actual ground on which a city or other phenomena rests. Refers to spatial relations with other places principally in terms of accessibility rather than of simple distance. The distribution and relationship of humans over the earth and spatial aspects of human settlement and use of the earth. Interrelationship between human society and the physical environment. Concerned with the whole of human society in time or in space, or in a given area or period, rather than with individual parts of it. Holistic discipline examples a city is as big as it is because of specialized services that it offers. A distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees. Lines of latitude (parallels) run east-west but measure distance 90 degrees north and south of the equator.
