GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Choropleth Map, Geographic Information System, Cartogram

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Nancy Worth

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Yellow highlighter- terms and definitions that correlate with notes. Blue highlighter- terms to be aware of, not to know in detail. Red highlighter- broad topics to know (in notes) Places; specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes. Region; territories that encompass may places, all or most of which share attributes different from the tributes of places elsewhere. Physi(cid:272)al geog(cid:396)aphy = ea(cid:396)th"s (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses a(cid:374)d thei(cid:396) out(cid:272)o(cid:373)es, ie (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate, (cid:449)eathe(cid:396) patte(cid:396)(cid:374)s, landforms, plant/animal ecology, etc. Human geography = spatial o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ities a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ith people"s (cid:396)elationships to their environments, ie how physical environment influences human activity. Regional geography= human and physical geography- concerned with the way that unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes. Human geography is to reveal how and why geographical relationships are important via natural, social, economic, political and cultural phenomena. Formal regions- basic definition, places that have characteristics in common.