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AP Human Geo Notes Red Book
AP Human Geo Notes Red Book
AP HUMAN GEO
2015-16
CHAPTER 1 PEOPLE ,PLACES , AND CULTURES NOTES
Human Geography focuses on how people make places, how we
organize space and society, how we interact with each other in
places and across space, and how we make sense of others and
ourselves in our locality, region, and world
Physical Geography is the study of physical phenomena on Earth
Advances in communication and transportation technologies
are making places and people more interconnected. Even with
culture encouraging us all to be the same, we still have a
collage of religions, languages, and ethnicities. The world is
full of diverse places and people.
Globalization is a set of processes that are increasing interactions,
deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence
without regard to country borders
The main concern about the outcome of globalization is that
there won't be individual cultures. Everything is going to turn
into a big blob of the same. Global is seen as a blanket
smothering the world and its diversity; local is seen as a
continuation of the traditional despite the blanket of
globalization. Globalization is a set of outcomes that are
unevenly distributed and differently manifested across the
world.
Why and how we do things come together in certain places to
produce particular outcomes? So what? Why does it matter that
things are different across space? What role does a place play in
its region and in the world, and what does it mean for the
people?
Spatial Arrangement- is how places and phenomena are laid out,
organized, and arranged on Earth, and how they appear on the
landscape.
Spatial Distribution- is the physical location of geographic
phenomena across space.
An epidemic is a regional outbreak of a disease, while a pandemic
is a worldwide outbreak of a disease