geography 5 final ucsb Questions and Answers with complete

definition of geography - Answer-study of Earth as the home of humanity exurbia - Answer-area beyond the suburbs literal meaning of the word "geography" - Answer-"Earth writing" (ancient Greek) physical geography - Answer-earth science - focuses on rocks, landforms, their distribution, etc. human geography - Answer-human activity, culture, society - draws from other social sciences techniques - Answer-cartography, remote sensing, GIS, spatial statistics areal differentiation - Answer-one place differs from the next Regional (general) approach - Answer-focuses on a comprehensive understanding of physical and human characteristics of a particular region - cartography and travel logs - National Geographic (layperson's conception) Systemic (specific) approach - Answer-analyzing specific patterns across regions (scientific) - UCSB's approach - may choose a specialty geographic features/phenomena - Answer-- natural features (mountains, rivers, forests, oceans) - cultural features (buildings, etc.) endurant - Answer-wholly exists at a moment in time and continues to exist over time - objects and masses- you can see it in a photo, like a fence perdurant - Answer-changes over time, exists over time and not in a moment - processes and events - volcano eruption, riot, migration homogeneous reference - Answer-the phenomenon is divisive and cumulative - involves masses and processes - ex: if you have half the soil, you still have soil heterogeneous reference - Answer-not cumulative or divisive - objects and events - half of a tree is not a tree; you cannot have three migrations