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Apply the concept of relative location to:

1. A college student deciding where to live in the coming

year

2. Deciding where to locate a new grocery store, school

3. Multinational firm--deciding where to locate a

production facility

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The city of Samarkand was once very important as it lie on the major

ancient, OVER LAND trade route known as the Silk Road. When ships

began to be the focus of international trade, important cities grew along

coasts. Inland Samarkand became isolated as a result.

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The “dancing house” is an office building in downtown Prague

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The globe shows Latin America where most people share Spanish and

Catholicism. The middle image is of Canada, political boundaries form

formal regions. The region on the shares the common characteristic of

Islam.

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The characteristics of the regions above will differ between individuals.

What characteristics do you think of “The South?” Where does the

South stop and the Midwest or the Southwest begin? There are no

clear boundaries between perceptual regions.

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Adaptation must be to the PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT!!! Many

students will make the mistake of lumping cultural adaptations into this

category. For example, I moved to France and adapted by learning to

speak French. This is wrong b/c it isn’t an adaptation to the physical

environment.

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Any change to the physical environment works. Breathing, cutting

down a tree, or throwing a rock in a river are all simple but work as

examples. Of course, we are looking for larger examples and the

ramifications of HEI.

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We will look at the movement of people, migration, at a later date.

People move for a reason and that is important.

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