[GEOG 213] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 28 pages long Study Guide!
5 Oct 2016
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Key theme: space on earth"s surface and its: particular patterns and processes that organize social and natural spaces. Spatial perspective: consideration that special patterns are crucial to have and we live and organize our societies. Relationship between human societies and natural (physical) environment is a two-way street: transformation of environment, human dependence in environment and behaviour of product of it. Comprehensive special vocabulary: patterns and process in past, present, and future, range from specific to complex. Map scale: compares the area and detail on the ground and on the map. Operational scale: where social and natural processes play out and are investigated at a certain level of analysis (scope of analysis) Large scale maps (more detail), small scale maps (less detail) Think about physical space and social space. Think about absolute space and relative space (perceived, lived) Geographic realms: global neighbourhoods with combinations of environmental, cultural, and organizational properties: these characteristics are imprinted on the landscape.
