GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Huinan County, Air Navigation, True North
8 Oct 2015
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Human geography: its nature and scope (chapter 1) *the where and when of an event will help us answer questions of where, what, why and how. Think of a functional region a system with different parts doing different activities: most functional regions has a core area or a command center, example a major city in an area (ex. Toronto & gta: linkages exist through transportation and communication networks, including the flow of workers, raw materials and goods. Absolute location that since it is a discreet point it tells us where3 different types fixed location. River region, gta, southern ontario etc. topynyms or geographic names; guelph, usa etc. : in terms of site determined by physical attributes; a: 3. Grand: distribution, points in space have a pattern; in terms of space, time etc. We can identify 3 basic distribution patterns: 1. Clustered pattern: location is bunched together: 2. Random pattern: random distribution, no set pattern: 3.
