Changes are being made in the economy at a global scale. For example, some vehicles use parts from other countries. The economy can also change at a local scale. An example of an economic change in Los Banos would be the unemployment rate. More and more people are becoming unemployed. Changes are also being made in culture. Some even mix cultures like how border towns and southern cities in the US, have signs in both English and Spanish. That's a local scale change. A global scale change in culture would be how sushi, a Japanese dish, is becoming popular all over the world.

     The three properties of distribution across space are density, concentration, and pattern. Density is how often something occurs in a given area. To calculate density, divide the amount of objects by the measurement of the place. Concentration refers to the extent of a phenomenom over the given area.  They may seem the same, but concentration is different from density.  Pattern is the relationship of how objects are organized in the space they're in and occur in certain distributions.

 

                Pattern                                                    Density

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                          Concentration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Geographers approach different aspects of cultural identity including gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. They all play an important role in geography. Gender is important because it is known that females have a larger scale pattern than males. This is because women have more responsibilites like dropping off kids, walking the dog, groceries, etc. It becomes even larger if the female goes to work. Ethnicity is also important to geography because people prefer to live in a place of their own race. Same goes to sexuality. Most people like to live in a place where all people have the same sexual views.

     Characteristics can spread across space over time through diffusion. They can spread through contagious or hierarchical diffusion. Contagious diffusion is when characteristics spread rapidly to all the places around it. An example would be when Hinduism started in northern India, but then spread through all of India. In hierarchical diffusion, characteristics spread in a pattern. An example of hierarchical diffusion is if a fashion trend started, it didn't spread to all of the surrounding places. But it did spread to some surrounding cities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Places are connected through networks. Networks are routes within a system of locations. These systems transport people and supplies and it keeps places connected. Inequality hinders these connections because the people being treated unfairly will not want to cooperate with the better treated people. If people don't want to talk to each other then they loose connection.