What influences our perception of a place?
Beliefs or understandings based on books, movies, stories, pictures, or experiences.
What is the purpose of a reference map?
To show locations of places and geographic features, including absolute locations.
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Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What influences our perception of a place?

Beliefs or understandings based on books, movies, stories, pictures, or experiences.

p.3
Five Themes of Geography

What is the purpose of a reference map?

To show locations of places and geographic features, including absolute locations.

p.2
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What are activity spaces?

The places we travel to routinely in our daily activities.

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Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is the visible human imprint on the landscape?

It includes religious, cultural, migration, and intercultural processes.

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Five Themes of Geography

What are the Five Themes of Geography?

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.

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Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is meant by 'Sense of Place'?

Infusing a place with meaning and emotion.

p.2
Spatial Interaction and Connectivity

What does spatial interaction depend on?

Distance, Accessibility, and Connectivity.

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Introduction to Human Geography

What is Human Geography?

The study of how we interact with each other in places and across space.

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Scale and Regional Analysis

What defines urban areas?

Urban areas are characterized by higher population density, built-up infrastructure, and economic activities.

p.7
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What should geographers practicing fieldwork do to understand cultural landscapes?

Keep their eyes open to the world around them and practice reading cultural landscapes.

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Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

How are activity spaces and mental maps related?

Activity spaces inform and shape our mental maps based on our experiences.

p.5
Political Ecology and Environmental Determinism

What is political ecology?

An approach that studies the relationships between political, economic, and social factors with environmental issues.

p.1
Human-Environment Interactions

How did the pattern of cholera victims help public health?

It helped uncover the source of the disease and select sites for additional health facilities.

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Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

How can remote and isolated places sell goods in the current economy?

Through platforms like Shopee or Amazon, which provide high connectivity with urban areas.

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Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

What economic impact does high connectivity have on remote areas?

It creates a lot of income and labor.

p.3
Scale and Regional Analysis

Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?

To understand the observation and context across different scales, such as local and regional.

p.6
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is cultural ecology?

Cultural ecology studies how cultural practices and beliefs shape human interactions with the environment.

p.5
Political Ecology and Environmental Determinism

What is the concept of possibilism?

The idea that humans can adapt and make choices despite environmental constraints.

p.4
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is diffusion in a geographical context?

The process of dissemination, spreading an idea or innovation from its heart to other areas.

p.6
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is stimulus diffusion?

Stimulus diffusion involves creating a stimulus in one region that influences behaviors or practices in another.

p.1
Five Themes of Geography

What questions do geographers seek to answer?

How are things organized on Earth? How do they appear on the landscape? Why? Where? So what?

p.4
Scale and Regional Analysis

What does the term 'regions' often imply?

Regions have contested meanings.

p.2
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is Sequent Occupance?

Layers of imprints in a cultural landscape reflecting years of differing human activity.

p.6
Human-Environment Interactions

What is possibilism in geography?

Possibilism is the theory that the environment offers various possibilities for human activity, but cultural choices determine how those possibilities are utilized.

p.1
Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

What does Geographic Inquiry focus on?

The spatial arrangement of places and phenomena, including human and physical aspects.

p.4
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is time-distance decay?

A concept that describes how the spread of an idea slows or prevents diffusion over distance and time.

p.4
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is a cultural complex?

A combination of related cultural traits.

p.7
Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

What term is used to describe areas that become economically active despite isolation?

Pseudourban.

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Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

What is pseudourban connectivity?

Pseudourban connectivity refers to the phenomenon where people engage with global culture and products despite lacking local resources.

p.4
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is a perceptual region?

Ideas in our minds that define an area of 'sameness' or 'connectedness' based on accumulated knowledge.

p.5
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is contagious diffusion?

A type of diffusion where an idea spreads adjacently.

p.1
Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

What are the key processes of globalization?

Increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders.

p.4
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is a cultural heart?

The origin area where a culture or innovation begins.

p.4
Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

How do global processes influence local phenomena?

Global processes operating at different scales influence one another.

p.4
Scale and Regional Analysis

What is a functional region?

A region defined by a set of social, political, or economic activities or interactions.

p.6
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

Why did Europeans seek spices historically?

Spices were sought for their ability to preserve food, especially important during winter when food could not be grown.

p.6
Political Ecology and Environmental Determinism

What is political ecology?

Political ecology studies the relationships between political, economic, and social factors with environmental issues and changes.

p.4
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What is a cultural trait?

An individual element of culture, such as a belief or practice.

p.6
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is the main difference between contagious and hierarchical diffusion?

Contagious diffusion occurs naturally without effort, while hierarchical diffusion spreads through levels, such as from government to citizens.

p.5
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is hierarchical diffusion?

A type of diffusion where an idea spreads to the most linked people or places first.

p.2
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What are mental maps?

Maps we carry in our minds of places we have been and places we have heard of.

p.7
Cultural Landscapes and Mental Maps

What did the author discover about the villa of Rumah Sakit Hewan Prof Soeparwi?

It is an animal hospital with laboratories, pharmacy, surgery rooms, and is part of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

p.7
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is hierarchical diffusion in the context of COVID-19?

The spread of the virus through superspreaders.

p.1
Globalization and Geographic Inquiry

What are the outcomes of globalization?

Unevenly distributed, varying across scales, and differently manifested throughout the world.

p.3
Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

What is a Geographic Information System (GIS)?

A collection of computer hardware and software that allows for the storage and analysis of layers of spatial data.

p.3
Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

What is Remote Sensing?

A method of collecting data by instruments that are physically distant from the area of study.

p.5
Political Ecology and Environmental Determinism

Why has environmental determinism been rejected by almost all geographers?

Because it suggests that humans are entirely determined by their environment.

p.5
Human-Environment Interactions

What is cultural ecology?

An approach that examines the relationship between culture and the environment.

p.7
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is relocation diffusion in the context of COVID-19?

The virus being diffused across distances, such as by planes.

p.6
Scale and Regional Analysis

What defines rural areas?

Rural areas are characterized by lower population density, agricultural activities, and open spaces.

p.5
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is expansion diffusion?

The idea of innovation spreads outward from the heart.

p.5
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is stimulus diffusion?

An idea promotes a local experiment or change in the way people do things.

p.4
Scale and Regional Analysis

What is a formal region?

A region defined by a commonality, typically a cultural linkage or physical characteristics.

p.7
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is an example of a good, idea, or disease that can diffuse in multiple ways?

COVID-19.

p.6
Spatial Interaction and Connectivity

What is the significance of connection density in urban areas?

Connection density refers to the extent of interactions and infrastructure that facilitate communication and transportation in urban settings.

p.4
Political Ecology and Environmental Determinism

What role does scale play in political contexts?

People can use scale politically to change who is involved or how an issue is perceived.

p.3
Five Themes of Geography

What do thematic maps tell us?

They tell a story about the degree of an attribute, pattern, distribution, or movement, focusing on relative locations.

p.3
Scale and Regional Analysis

What is the territorial extent of something in geography?

It refers to the area covered by a specific attribute or phenomenon, often represented in thematic maps.

p.5
Cultural Diffusion and Its Types

What is relocation diffusion?

The movement of individuals who carry an idea or innovation to a new locale.

p.1
Human-Environment Interactions

What example illustrates the pattern of distribution in Human Geography?

The map of Cholera victims in London's Soho District in 1854.

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