GPHY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Map, Natural Disaster, Urban Agriculture

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: L. Cameron

Document Summary

The study of people"s relationships with the environment in different areas of the world, as well as the study of spatial organization of human activity. The distance (angular) of a point measured in degrees on the surface of the. Each person has their own meaning of a place which is contingent, changing with the experiences a person has; experience is what defines a place. A map that shows a specific person"s perception of a place; may not be accurate, but relates to that person"s life and the experiences they have in different places. T or f: space is a concept of its own, different from the term location. Give one example of how places are contingent. One way that a place can be contingent could be when a natural disaster occurs, such as a fire. That fire could destroy houses and the environment around them, changing that place for a lot of people.