AP Human Geography 2015-09-02 Chapter 1 Section 1 Thinking Geographically QUICK SUMMARIES ? Geography is most fundamentally a spatial science. Geographers use maps to display the location of objects and to extract information about places. ? GIS and other contemporary tools assist geographers. ? Geographers also identify regions as areas distinguished by distinctive combinations of cultural as well as economic and environmental features. ? The global scale is increasingly important because few places in the contemporary world are totally isolated. ? Because places are connected to each other, they display similarities. Geographers study the interactions of groups of people and human activities across space, and they identify