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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 ? 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

big_geographic_questions_1.pdf

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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. 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 In noting his fondness for geography, John Noble Wilford, science correspondent for The New York Times , neverthe- less challenged the discipline to articulate those big questions in our ?eld, ones that would generate public interest,

kuby_chapter_1_reading_1.pdf

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kuby_chapter_1_case_study_1.pdf

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Race
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Black people
African-American culture
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African-American neighborhood
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10 ! Chapter 1. True Maps, False Impressions: Making, Manipulating, and Interpreting Maps ? 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. GOAL To interpret and critically evaluate maps, to understand how scale influences data representation on maps, and to recognize three types of map scale: representative fraction, verbal, and graphic. You will also learn how to represent data with different types of thematic maps?the dot map, the isoline map, the choropleth map, and the pro- portional symbol map?and see that your choice of map type profoundly influences the resulting spatial pattern. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing the chapter, you will be able to: ? Convert map scale to real-world distances. ? Recognize choropleth, proportional symbol, isoline, and dot maps.

how_much_do_you_know_about_hum_geo.pdf

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Name: 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 answer the questions. Good luck! 1. If you are standing at zero degrees (0?) latitude and longitude, where would you be? 2. What are the ?Five Themes of Geography?? 3. Many people use a GPS in their cars in order to get to a location. What does GPS stand for? 4. About how many people are living on planet earth today? 5.Name the 3 most populated countries: 6. List, in order, the 3 largest religions in the world: 7. In what country did apartheid exist? 8. What province in Canada has tried to gain independence due to cultural differences?

geography_its_nature_and_perspectives.pdf

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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 ? 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

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