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