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Unit 1 Review

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How do geographers define the concept of "place?"

A location on the Earth's surface that has distinct / unique characteristics.

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What are the four traditions according to W. D. Pattison?

Area-analysis, culture-environment, earth-science, and locational

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What are the five themes of geography?

place, region, movement, location, human-environment interaction

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Explain space-time compression?

As communication / technology improves, the time it takes to travel decreases making it seem as if places are closer

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Explain the "why of where" concept.

Understanding why things occur where they do. This illustrates the fact that spatial patterns are important.

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Explain scale of analysis.

Focuses on some type of data and its distribution across space (tracking a disease, trend, etc.)

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What is a Formal / Uniform region?

Place where everyone shares at least one specific characteristic (language, economy, etc.)

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What is a Functional / Nodal region?

Some characteristic dominates a specific area and diminishes the further it gets from the focal point (newspaper, radio station, etc.)

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Explain Carl Sauer's Cultural Landscape theory.

Focuses on items placed on the landscape by people ("culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result")

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