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Title: Geog 100 Themes in World Geography


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Geog 100Themes in World Geography
  • Dr. Julie Cidell
  • Fall 2004
  • Section 7

2
What 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

3
Spatial variation predominant religion
4
Why spatial variation exists earthquakes
5
Changes over time deforestation
6
What 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

7
Spatial behavior of people population
8
Spatial relationships between places trade
9
Spatial processes commuting and urban form
10
Five 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?

11
Five 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 ____?

12
Five 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?

13
Five 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?

14
Five 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?

15
Relative and absolute location
  • Stand up!
  • Where were you born?
  • Where do you live?
  • Wheres the most beautiful place youve ever been?

16
Index 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?
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