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One of the two Culture, location… Human geography
major divisions of is a college level
Human Geography geography, the Study of places and course.
(pg 8) spatial analysis of people.
human population,
its cultures,
activities, and
landscape.
The expansion of People in India People say you
economic, political, A set of processes getting American can’t understand
and cultural that are increasing jobs for lower pay. how the world
processes to the interactions, works without
Globalization point that they deepening understanding
(pg 8) become global in relationships, and globalization.
scale and impact. heightening
The processes of independence w/o
globalization regard to country
transcend state boundaries.
boundaries and
have outcomes that
vary across places
and scales.
One of the two Mountains, forests, Physical geography
major divisions of is the study of
geography; the earths natural
Physical geography spatial analysis of Physical phenomenon.
(pg 9) the structure, phenomena (land
processes, and features, climate,
location of the and environment)
earth’s natural
phenomenon such
as climate, soil,
plants, animals and
topography.
Pertaining to space geographic 1 acre of land. This room is very
Spatial on the earths spatial.
(pg 9) surface; sometimes
used as a synonym
for geographic.
Physical location of Lights of cities. The spatial
Spatial distribution geographic Exact spot of Spread of disease. distribution of
(pg 9) phenomena across change across the cholera.
space. world.
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Vocabulary Term
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The design of a Scattered or Western Is there a pattern in
Pattern spatial distribution. concentrated hemisphere or the spread of HIV?
(pg 9) (e.g. scattered or spatial distribtuion eastern hemisphere
concentrated)
The study of health Spread of disease. Medical geography
and disease within can help figure out
a geographic where diseases are
context and from a Studying health spreading.
Medical geography geographical and diseases and
(pg 9) perspective. Among how they spread
other things from region to
medical geography region.
looks at sources,
diffusion routes and
distribution of
diseases.
Swine flu. Our most recent
Pandemics An outbreak of An outbreak of a pandemic is the
(pg 10) disease that disease across the swine flu.
spreads worldwide. world.
An outbreak of a Common cold, There are always
Epidemic Regional outbreak disease in a town or stomach flu. epidemic
(pg 10) of a confined area. happening in humid
disease. places.
Observing Electronics. There are many
Spatial perspective variations in Changes across the different spatial
(pg 11) geographic world. perspectives.
phenomena across
space.
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Line distance-
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connecting contagious illness.
temperatures a town.
using isotherms to diffusion is shown
sometimes will use
spreading
equal temperature
of an show temperature when cholera
isotherms to show
broke
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values. patterns. out in England.
temperature
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through a local
population
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believe in trends
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by passing first
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among the most
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