GEOG 1001 Chapter : GEOG 1001 Lec 1
Document Summary
Environment, regions, landscapes: geography and geographic inquiry, description and explanation of the patterns and processes across the earth"s surface: discussing the earth"s special dimensions and why places are different from one another, approach, physical, human, g. i. s. Economically: geographic regions of the world, making sense of the world through categorization, no region homogenous, borders are fuzzy, formal regions, distinct boundaries based on measurable shared or uniform traits. Counties, cities, states, countries, language, income, religion, elevation, or climate: functional regions, a certain activity or organization defined by a system of interactions. Dallas and fort worth are connected by the. China town, french quarter: cultural: humans transform space, location, place, space, cultural landscapes, scale, scale: size and extent of the area, contains various levels of analysis. Advocates and critics of globalization: good: inevitable expression of contemporary capitalism through which all nations benefit from economic integration, bad: globalization is not natural, but is an unfai and unequal economic policy that favors wealthy countries.
