GEOG 1001 : Geog 1001 Study Guide Test 1
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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. Place: many of the differences between places around the world are a product of the relationships of these places to one another. That places are different because they are connected is the single central lesson of this book. Globalization: the increasing interconnections of the different parts of the world through common process of economic, environmental political cultural change. 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. Regionaliztion: it is the process of making new global connections that allow or causes regions to change.
