GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Imprint, Human Geography, Spatial Scale
2 Feb 2017
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Geographic literacy: in order to communicate effectively about human geography, you need to be able to speak the language. Connecting concepts of space, location, and place. Regionalization: the process where we simplify our complex world and its human and physical geographic patterns and processes into regions: locations on the earths surface are assigned / classi ed into various regions based on criteria / criterion. Spatial scale / perspective matters: what might be viewed as a region from one perspective may no longer signi cant when viewed from another. Regions are often de ned / identi ed by their landscapes. Landscapes = the visible features of the land: landscapes can be natural / physical and human / cultural. Cultural landscape: the outcome of interactions between people and their environments; the visible human imprint on the land. !2: each cultural group imprints itself on the landscape in the different ways. Man cultures = many distinct cultural landscapes.
