GG102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Multidimensional Poverty Index, Human Poverty Index, Regional Geography
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Places: specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, cultural attributes. Places are dynamic (changing properties/ fluid boundaries) Product of variety of environmental and human factors. In places where people learn who/ what they are. Socially constructed: places mean different things for different people. Physical geography: earth"s natural processes/ their outcomes (climate, landforms, ecology) Human geography: the study of the spatial organization of human activity/ people"s relationship with their environment (population change, agricultural production, resources) To reveal how and why geographical relationships are important. Regional geography: way that unique combinations of environmental/ human factors produce territories w/ distinct landscapes/ cultures. Remote sensing: collection of info about parts of earth"s surface (satellite, infrared ect. ) Visualization/ representation: allow large amount of info to be explored/ summarized. Analysis: to better understand reality/ explain real world. Topographic maps: represent form of earth surface/ show permanent features (buildings, highways, boundaries) Contour- lines that represents equal elevation above sea level.
