Ch 6 Study Guide

Study guide

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Front Back
The images that come to mind when we think of a place, like Tucson, Arizona or Damascus, Syria are know as our ________ images.
Cognitive
Distortions in our cognitive images are the result of ________?
Incomplete information or our own biasis, likes and dislikes
Generally, the more experience and first-hand information we have of a place, the more our cognitive images reflect ________.
Reality
The parking lot down the street would best be characterized as a _________.
Vernacular (common) landscape
A study of the social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space, for example, how near or distant you like to sit near others in class is know as ________.
Proxemics
The longing and ongoing attachments that a migrant may have to her home land is an example of ________.
Topophilia
The best example of a landscape of power as discussed in our text is ________.
Pentagon
When we talk about landscapes as texts, we are referring to ________?
Landscapes are things of meanings that can be read like books/as texts
Recognizing that landscapes both produce and communicate meaning allows us to ________.
Interpret local and national and cultural practices
The humanistic approach in geography emphasizes ________ values, meanings, intentions and behaviors.
Individual
Reading, writing and recognizing signs and symbols (such as those that are written into landscapes) is known as ________.
Semiotics
Sacred spaces are sacred because?
People make them sacred, they are sites of special religious experiences and events
The hajj is among the world's very largest ________.
Pilgrimage
To participate in the hajj is to be a Muslim and participate in commemorative and symbolic acts in ________.
Mecca
Landscapes and place-making in which economic and scientific reason and progress are emphasized, are characteristics of ________?
Modernity