Chapter 1 review Globalization The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete Globalization ID: 763034
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Chapter 1 review
Globalization The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete.
Globalization A set of processes that are: increasing interactions deepening relationships heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. A set of outcomes that are: unevenly distributed varying across scales differently manifested throughout the world.
5 Themes of Geography Location Human-Environment- environmental determinism and possibilism RegionPlaceMovement
Location ABSOLUTE, SITE RELATIVE, SITUATION
Types of Diffusion Expansion Diffusion – idea or innovation spreads outward from the hearth Contagious – spreads adjacently Hierarchical – spreads to most linked people or places first. Stimulus – idea promotes a local experiment or change in the way people do things.
Types of Diffusion Relocation diffusion – movement of individuals who carry an idea or innovation with them to a new, perhaps distant locale.