GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Human Imprint, Cultural Landscape, Landfall
11 Dec 2013
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Sept 16/2013: regions, landscapes, diffusion, perception and metal mapping. Learned last class: ability to talk about geographic terms. Region: part of earth"s surface that contains some kind of internal homogeneity and is relatively distinct from surrounding areas according to some criteria: example: human graphic types of criteria. Criteria may be: human geographic or physical geographic or a combination of both. Internal homogeneity vs external heterogeneity: ex: rain fall difference between landfall, language vs language, culture vs culture. Regionalization: the process of simplifying the world and its human physical geographic patterns and processes into regions: example: regions of canada (eg: borderlands, locations on the earth"s surface are assigned into various regions based on criteria. Spatial scale: regions are defined by landscapes: visible feature of the land. Example: prairies flat land, but changed using human modification. Concepts: landscape: cultural landscape: the visible human imprint on the land or. Each cultural group imprints itself on landscapes differently.
