Geography of Diseases

1) Who is regarded as one of the founding

fathers of modern epidemiology and
contradicted the prevailing theory that
diseases were spread in the air by showing
that cholera reproduced in the body and
was spread through contaminated water?
John Snow
2) What is the general term used for
microorganisms that cause disease?
Pathogens
3) What does HIV stand for? Human
Immunodeficiency Virus
4) What is the theory which believed that
human disease is caused by a poisonous
vapor in air? Miasma theory
5) What is the level of disease occurence in
which the population of an entire country or
continent is affected? Pandemic
Geography of Disasters
1) Disaster
A serious disruption of the functioning of a
community or society including the loss of
life or property which exceeds the ability of
the affected community or society using its
own resources.
Interaction of natural hazards and socioeconomic vulnerabilities
2)Disaster Pressure and Release Model
Explains that a disaster is the intersection of
hazards and vulnerabilities.
3) Hazard
Natural events that affect different places at
different times
4) Vulnerability
A community or society or individuals social
and economic characteristic of potentiality
for casualty, destruction, damage,
disruption, or loss.
5) Storm Surge
A tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water
commonly associated with low pressure
weather systems.
Happens in coasts, had no equivalent in
Taclobans dialect.
Geography of Transportation
1.) It is the ease of movement of
passengers, freight, or information.
Transportability
2.) The proposal of DOTC and LTFRB to
phase out old jeepneys covers units that
have been on the road for more than how
many years? 15
3.) It is a person's ability to travel. Mobility
4.) It is the accumulation of vehicles on the
road which would hinder movement. Traffic
Congestion

5.) It is the capacity of a location to be

reached by, or to reach different locations.
Accessibility
Development Geography
1. In Human Development Index, this
dimension is assessed by life expectancy at
birth of a certain country. Health
2. A society in which resources are not
scarce and most people live in comparative
prosperity. Affluent society
From population geography group:
Questions:
1. It is the study of the statistics of growth,
size, structure, and distribution of people.
2. Which country in the world is the most
populated?
3. What population statistic is the ability of
females to produce offspring?
4. What theory explains the framework for
world population growth, relating the
interactions of birth rate, death rate, and
rate of natural increase?
5. What chart/figure describes the relation of
statistical information between age and
sex?
Answers:
1. Demography
2. China
3. Fertility
4. Demographic Transition Theory
5. Population Pyramid
Culture, Genre de Vie
Car Sauer and morphology of landscape
Sex v. Gender, gender roles and stereotypes
Nature-Culture Binary, Environmental and
Cultural Determinism
Marxist v. Sauerian view on Nature
Ideology of Pop Culture
How is the internet geographic?

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