? 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 ? Geographers are concerned with the tension between globalization and local diversity ? A division: physical geography and human geography ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Geography?s Vocabulary ? Place ? Region ? Scale ? Space ? Connections ? 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Maps ? Two purposes ? As reference tools