Geography & Culture
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mariajf567 on February 7, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Compass | A tool used to show what direction you are going. |
| Hemisphere | The earth is divided into 4 total hemispheres. Northern & Southern, Eastern & Western. |
| Lines of Latitude | These lines tell if you are located in the Northern & Southern hemisphere. |
| Lines of Longitude | These lines tell if you are located in the Eastern & Western hemisphere. |
| Latitude & Longitude | Both measured in degrees. Both the equator and Prime meridian are both 0. Latitude is o to 90 N or S. Longitude is 0 to 180 E or W. |
| Location | Position on the earth's surface. Absolute location use of latitude & longitude lines. Relative location described by landmark's, time,direction, or distance from one place to another. |
| Place | Physical characteristics include mountains, rivers, beaches, wildlife, & soil. Human characteristics include buildings, roads, clothes, & food habits. |
| Human/Environmental Interaction | These are the key concepts to human/environmental interaction. Humans adapt to the environment, humans modify the environment, humans depend on the environment. |
| Movement | The movement of people, the import & export of goods, and mass communication have all played major roles in shaping our world. We interact with each other through travel, trade, information flows (Email) and political events. |
| Regions | Formal regions are those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries. These regional boundaries are not open to dipute, therfore physical regions fall under this category. |
| Functional regions | are those defined by a function. If the function cease to exists , the region no longer exists. Vernacular regions are those loosely defined by people's perception. |
| 7 Elements of Culture | 1. Social Organization 2. Customs & Traditions 3. Language 4. Arts & Literature 5. Religion 6. Forms of government 7. Economic Systems |
| Social Organization | How a society is organized into smaller units. Family, Friends, Religious groups, Social classes. |
| Social Classes | How people in a society are ranked. Wealth, Occupation, Eduacation, Family. |
| Customs & Traditions | Are rules we live our lives by. How we dress. What we eat. How we greet each other. Holidays. |
| Language | Is the corner of culture. Is how people communicate their thought's, feelings, and knowledge. Gives culture a single identity. Civilization could not exist without some sort of language. |
| Arts & Literature | Things that a culture creates to entertain themselves. Example are folk tels, paintings, music, etc. |
| Religion | How people try to explain why we are here. Disputes over religion have caused many of the major disputes in history. |
| Family Patterns | Nuclear family is a husband, wife, and child living together. Extended is several generations of a family together. (husband, wife, children, aunts, uncles, granparents etc.). Divorced is living with one parent |
| Cultural Terms | multicultural is to be influenced by more than one culture. Prejudice is pre judge a person based on a physical trait. Stereotype is a mental picture, attitiude or opinion that assumes everyone of a group is the same. |
| Alien | A foreign resident who is not a citizen of the country he/she is living in. |
| Literate | The ability to read or write. |
| Illiterate | unable to read or write |
| Ethnocentrism | Believing that your culture is superior and showing little regard to others. |
| Racist | Person who thinks their race is superior to. |
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