[GEOG 1700] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (38 pages long!)

115 views38 pages
School
Department
Course
Professor

Document Summary

The study of the interaction of all physical and human phenomena at individual places and how interactions among places form patterns and organize larger spaces. Location of a place relative to other places. Formal regions: essential uniformity in physical or cultural features such as a climate type or language barrier. Aid in navigating, defined by the people"s experiences within the region. Spatial distributions: the distribution is the position, placement, or arrangement of phenomenons in space. Cost: least costly options are not always the shortest. Distant decay: the presence or impact of a phenomenon may diminish as it moves away from its origins. Diffusion: an item or feature may spread across space. Hierarchical: some places are organized by churches. Barriers to diffusion: what disrupts the idea of diffusion. Have the space, requires a lot of water. Feedlots store and overfeed mass amounts of cows. American companies that buy out tracks of land in latin america (bananas)