GEOG 1000 Lecture 1: Geography Lecture Notes 2016-2017 ALL TOPICS
24 Sep 2017
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Examines the processes that give rise to differences from place to place. Variations from one location to the other. Maps help us describe and examine the locations and how they"re similar or different. Process talk about power, power relationship among locations, crucial in understanding on how places are similar and different. Social, economic, cultural and political processes that enforce borders, looking at map-begin to think about them. Continents have been most common way to organize the world. Long standing, modern maps do this 7 continents. Artic, antarctica are connected to other land masses(continents) New zealand, papua new guinea a part of australia land mass. Cultural as well as political, social, and economic icons. Continents aren"t as objective as they appear. The world is dynamic, always changing, continents not so much. Other ways of organizing the world-1st, 2nd, and 3rd world. 2nd world, eastern europe, former soviet union, china. 3rd, formerly not aligned states, country of india leaders of this group.
