Phương Lộc - 2011710031

1. Topic: Cultural geography

2. What is cultural geography?
- The study of the way that the physical environment of the Earth interacts with the
people and cultures of the Earth
3. What does barrier effects refer to?
- That stop cultures from spreading
- Physical barriers isolate people: preventing, limiting chan…
4. How does isolation cause differences in cultures?
- Isolation is one general reason why we have many cultures.
- Exchange infor and ideas
- More similar, more alike
- Geography isolation makes communicaton difficult
5. Describe the physical barriers that isolate people
- Oceans were barriers for centuries
- Some islands in the Pacific Ocean are home people who have little contact with
the outside world
- Forests were much larger than today
- Forest society was isolated because it was difficult to travel
- Mountains. E.g: the island near Indo and Australia, the total population is 7
milion, estimated 700 languages spoken
- Deserts and tundra
- Deserts have also tended to isolate people anh inhibit the spread of culture.
- Tundra is very high at the top of the Earth
- The environment is cold, sub-freezing and treeless