GEOG 1001 : Test One Study Guide
Document Summary
Geography: the study of global interconnections involving everything from how people earn a living to how they interact with environment. Regions: are those large areas of the world that share similar cultural, environmental, economic or political characteristics. Systems: a set of elements linked together so that changes in one element often result in changes in another. Interdependence they affect and are affected by each other. Change: regions emerge over time and new regions will take their place. Globalization: the increasing interconnections of the different parts of the world through common process of economic, environmental political cultural change. Regionalization: it is the process of making new global connections that allow or causes regions to change. Weather: is the current state of temperature and precipitation at a particular time and place. Climate: the typical conditions of the weather expected at a place over a long-term average. Ex: phoenix is dry b/c mansaus is wet.
