GEOG120- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 146 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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Formal regions - physical or uniform throughout. Functional regions - relational, activity, or core-periphery. The world contains too much information for us to process. Abstraction is -- the process we use to make sense of this world by selecting what is important. What we remove/retain in abstraction is a necessary choice. This choice shapes how we see the world. The process of using geographical tools or lenses to make sense out of what we see in the world. The study of the earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action. A process of abstraction which is concerned with the location of human and physical phenomena and the spatial relationships between those phenomena. Thinking geographically is analyzing spatial patterns of human and physical phenomena. The world is flattening - t. friedman. Linguistic diversity in places we didn"t have it before (ex. Creating a greater inequality between rich and poor (20% of population consume 80%)
