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Key Things to Know for the Geography 201 Test…Unit 1: What is Geography?• Definitions of geography as two perspectives (spatial and ecological)• Five themes (location, place, human-environment interaction,movement, regions) and related concepts e.g. distance decay,accessibility, spatial interaction, factors that influence spatialinteraction• Five amplifiers (pattern, perception, systems, scale, change)• Sense of where…• Site and situation• Issues of scale: understanding the world from the local to global scale• Developing a fluency in considering issues and problems at a variety ofscales, local to globalReadings as assigned in syllabusUnit 2: Cultural Geography• Definitions of culture: mentifacts, sociofacts, artifacts, institutions,beliefs and understandings, technology, language, systems• Collectivist vs individualist cultures: distribution and characteristics• Application of these concepts to understand world cultural patterns,including variations in gender roles• Culture change: independent invention vs diffusion, types of diffusion,factors that influence diffusion; barriers to diffusion; acculturation,assimilation, syncretism/transculturation• Cultural convergence and interdependence with improved globalcommunication and transportation networks• Why they hate us? Role of cultural convergence in fundamentalistattitudes toward fast world West• Culture traits, systems, regions• Models of culture change--from culture hearths through differentstages?• World-system theory and role of globalization in specific culturechangeReadings as assigned in syllabusActivity 1 and Activity 2 including locations of Activity 2 nations andpatterns of population density in the USUnit 3: Cultural Geography: Language (as much as we cover in class priorto exam)• Taxonomy of languages• Distribution of languages worldwide• Language as a clue to cultural diffusion and interchange: Africa,Indian Ocean• Toponyms• Language as a clue to culture: structure, vocabulary, social status,gender differences• Multilingualism in the US and other nations• Causes and consequences of multilingualism• Lingua franca, Pidgin• Language, territoriality, and identityEverything we have discussed and seen in


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