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Greiner Ch. 1 Study Guide 1
Greiner Ch. 1 Study Guide 1
Music geographers
Sports geographers
Medical geographers
3. Define geography.
7. How is Human Geography both an art and a science (in your own
words)?
9. How did 18th century European scholars use this concept to rank
societies?
10.
11.
How does environmental determinism define the relationship
between humans and the natural environment?
12.
13.
Give an example of how they believed the natural environment
controlled human development.
14.
In your own words, describe the 3 main criticisms of
environmental determinism:
15.
Political ecology, an offshoot of cultural ecology, studies
how ____________________________ forces and
____________________________ for ________________________ influence
human behavior, especially decisions and attitudes involving the
environment.
16.
According to political ecologist Paul Robbins, what type of factors
might influence an American homeowners decision to apply pesticides
or other chemicals to their lawn? (List a couple at least)
17.
18.
Define agency.
19.
In what way does possibilism differ from environmental
determinism?
20.
Do possiblists reject the entire notion of the natural
environment influencing human culture? Explain.
21.
What did geographer Carl Sauer emphasize instead of
environmental determinism?
22.
Sauer referred to the human transformation of the natural
landscape as _________________________ ___________________________.
23.
24.
In what way did the shared perception of what nature was or
should have been change between the 18th and 19th centuries?
25.
26.
What did geographer Carl Sauer believe was the driving force
behind human alterations of the natural landscape?
27.
To a human geographer, the __________________________
expressions of culture provide clues to peoples ____________________,
__________________________, and more broadly, their
____________________________.
28.
29.
What is the primary difference between a formal region and a
functional region?
30.
Why would it be extremely difficult to firmly delineate the
boundaries of a perceptual region on a map?