GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Total Fertility Rate, Proto-Language, Population Pyramid
3 Dec 2020
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The world contains too much information for us. The process of using geographical tools or lenses to make sense out of what we see in the world. Geography is the study of the earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action. A process of abstraction which is concerned with the location of human and physical phenomena and the spatial relationships between those phenomena. Tools of geographic abstraction and what they do. Scale: representing large spaces with smaller, but proportional spacing. Remote sensing: making sense of the earth by using sensors from airplanes or satellites to create images for a gis to process, Active: sending rays down and see how they bounce back. Passive, picking up emitted waves regions- area of land with common geographic, cultural, historical etc. ties. World is flattening t friedman (equalization of economies between nations) What are the elements of globalization economic, cultural, population. Expert-oriented economies as the expense of localized, sustainable activities.
