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Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
The Cultural Landscape:
An Introduction to Human Geography
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Defining Geography
? Word coined by Eratosthenes
? Geo = Earth
? Graphia = writing
? Geography thus means ?earth writing?
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Contemporary Geography
? Geographers ask where and why
? Location and distribution are important
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The Professional Geographer, 54(3) 2002, pages 305?317 ? Copyright 2002 by Association of American Geographers.
Initial submission, June 2001; revised submission, January 2002; ?nal acceptance, February 2002.
Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK.
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The Big Questions in Geography
Susan L. Cutter
University of South Carolina
Reginald Golledge
University of California, Santa Barbara
William L. Graf
University of South Carolina
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How Much Do You Know About Human Geography?
Directions: Answer the following questions. Do the best you can and use whatever resource you can find to
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1. If you are standing at zero degrees (0?) latitude and longitude, where would you be?
2. What are the ?Five Themes of Geography??
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? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc.
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
The Cultural Landscape:
An Introduction to Human Geography
? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc.
Defining Geography
? Word coined by Eratosthenes
? Geo = Earth
? Graphia = writing
? Geography thus means ?earth writing?
? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc.
Contemporary Geography
? Geographers ask where and why
? Location and distribution are important
terms
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people were alive at the beginning of this period
The Professional Geographer, 54(3) 2002, pages 305?317 ? Copyright 2002 by Association of American Geographers.
Initial submission, June 2001; revised submission, January 2002; ?nal acceptance, February 2002.
Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK.
ARTICLES
The Big Questions in Geography
Susan L. Cutter
University of South Carolina
Reginald Golledge
University of California, Santa Barbara
William L. Graf
University of South Carolina
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