Title: Geog 100 Themes in World Geography
1Geog 100Themes in World Geography
- Dr. Julie Cidell
- Fall 2004
- Section 7
2What is geography?
- The study of spatial variation
- How and why things differ from place to place
on the surface of the earth - The study of how observable spatial patterns
evolved through time
3Spatial variation predominant religion
4Why spatial variation exists earthquakes
5Changes over time deforestation
6What is geography?
- Geography is a spatial science
- Spatial behavior of people
- Spatial relationships between places
- Spatial processes that create or maintain those
behaviors and relationships
7Spatial behavior of people population
8Spatial relationships between places trade
9Spatial processes commuting and urban form
10Five fundamental themes of geography
- 1) Location the meaning of relative and absolute
position on the earth's surface - Sample terms Latitude and longitude, site and
situation, direction, distance, scale - Skills Map reading, identification
- Questions Where is ____? Where is ____ relative
to where I am?
11Five fundamental themes of geography
- 2) Place the distinctive and distinguishing
physical and human characteristics of locales - Sample terms Physical and cultural landscapes,
sense of place - Skills Description, compare and contrast
- Questions What does ____ look like? Why? How is
it different from ____?
12Five fundamental themes of geography
- 3) Relationships within places the development
and consequences of human-environment
relationships - Sample terms Ecosystems, natural resources,
environmental pollution - Skills Evaluation, analysis
- Questions What human-environment relationships
are occurring? How do they affect the place and
its inhabitants?
13Five fundamental themes of geography
- 4) Movement patterns and change in human spatial
interaction on the earth - Sample terms Migration, diffusion, globalization
- Skills Explanation, prediction
- Questions How has this spatial pattern
developed? Will it continue to change? What
does it mean for the places involved?
14Five fundamental themes of geography
- 5) Regions how they form and change
- Sample terms Formal vs. functional regions
- Skills Synthesis, application
- Questions How has this spatial pattern
developed? Will it continue to change? What
does it mean for the places involved?
15Relative and absolute location
- Stand up!
- Where were you born?
- Where do you live?
- Wheres the most beautiful place youve ever been?
16Index cards
- Name and e-mail address
- Experience with geography
- Something unique or interesting about yourself
- Anything I should know?
- After looking at the syllabus
- What are you most and least looking forward to in
the class?