Unit 1

Geography as a field of inquiry........................5-10%

A. Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issues.

B. Key geographical skills

• 1. How to use and think about maps and geospatial data

  2. How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places

  3. How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes

  4. How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process

  5. How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places

C. Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, GPS, and online maps

D. Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and satellite imagery

E. Identification of major world regions 

IF YOU ONLY LEARN 5 THINGS IN THIS UNIT... 

1. The Greeks were the first society to introduce geography as a subject. Eratosthenes is credited with being the first person to use the term geography, geo meaning "Earth" and graphy "to write."

2. The five themes of geography allow geographers to make each place unique (location) and link them together (region). Humans alter the environment to meet their needs (human-environment interaction). 

3. Diffusion is the spread or movement of a principle or phenomenon. Relocation, expansion, contagious, stimulus, and hierarchical diffusion are means by which an idea or phenomenon spreads.

4. There are three types of regions: formal, functional, and perceptual or vernacular.

5. There are three main aspects of distribution: density, concentration, and patterns. All are used to assist in determining spatial characteristics on the landscape. 

unit 1 reading guides

unit 1 lecture

UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE AND REVIEW

Review all Vocabulary for the Unit in addition to the questions below.

Themes of Geography

1. What are the five themes of geography? (Examples of each)

2. Explain the difference between sense of place and perception of place.

3. Identify Carl Sauer and concept of Cultural Landscape. Explain Sequent Occupance.

4. What is relative location? Absolute location? How do they differ?

5. The Rust belt is example of what type of Region? Why? What are the other regions?

6. How do humans alter the environment? What is sensitive environmental modification? Non-sensitive environmental modification?

Maps/Geographic Tools

1. What are the different projections?  Which one is used most often? Which one shows the least amount of distortion?

2. Difference in Maps: Reference/Thematic. Identify Thematic Maps.

3. Where is the International Date Line?

5. Does latitude increase, decrease or remain the same as one moves away from the equator? 

7. Where are the five oceans located in terms of latitude and longitude?

8. Who coined the term geography? What contributions do we have from early geographers?

9. Explain the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic.

10. Explain how geographers use different tools. (i.e. GIS, Remote Sensing)

Diffusion

1. What are the different types of diffusion?  What has made a major effect on distance decay? What are the three types of Expansion Diffusion and examples for each? What effect does intervening opportunities/obstacles have on diffusion?

2. What are the three hearth’s of the diffusion of global culture and economy? Has globalization increase uneven development or decreased it? Why?

3. Define Culture. Cultural Complex.

4. What is glocalization? Why is it significant to globalization?

5. What is spatial Interaction?  What effects/determines spatial interaction? 

6. Explain and give examples of 3 components of Spatial distribution.

Geographic Concepts

1. Explain the difference between Environmental Determinism and Possiblism. 

2. What is cultural ecology? Political ecology?