GEO 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Depth Perception, Sex Segregation, Rede Ferroviária Nacional
17 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1 spatial concepts and spatial dynamics. Cultural relativity and cognitive filtering: understanding of what constitutes as truth. You can have one issue but with many different perspectives. The research praxis: our conception of reality is contingent on our cultural, background education, etc. The friction of distance and the tyranny of space. Social space and what goes on in our social space. Area studies regional geography: the stud(cid:455) of a regio(cid:374)"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s a(cid:374)d attri(cid:271)utes. Biophysical conditions of an area or the cultural traditions of that region: 2. Human-land environmental geography: how humans change and are changed by their environment. We are interested in knowing how human activities affect the environment and on the other hand, how the environment influence human activities. In a quest for development or improvement of quality of life/standard of living, we use environmental resources. How we extract these resources have consequences to the environment. Stock fossil fuels, coal, oil, natural gas.
