I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

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I. Geography Its Nature and Perspectives

• Geography as a field of inquiry
• Evolution of key geographical concepts and models
  associated with notable geographers
• Key concepts underlying the geographical
  perspective
• Key geographical skills
• Sources of geographical ideas and data

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Selected Eras/Thinkers in the Evolution of
Geography

• Greeks Herodatus, Eratosthenes
• Romans Strabo, Ptolemy
• Muslims al-Edrisi, Ibn Battuta
• Age of Exploration
• Modern Era 19th century
• Germans von Humboldt, Kant, Ritter

• 20th century
• Environmental Determinism Rätzel, Semple,
  Huntington
• Possibilism Vidal de la Blache
• Cultural Landscape Sauer
• Sequent Occupance Whittlesey
• 4 Traditions Pattison

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Key Geographic Concepts

• Location
• Space
• Place
• Scale
• Pattern
• Region
• Interconnection (globalization)

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An AP Human Geography course should be global in
scope

• It should be concerned with basic human
  geographical patterns and processes that operate
  at different scales and that are fundamental to
  understanding the nature and complexity of Earth.

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Analytical Goals of Human Geography

• Use and think about maps and spatial data.
• Understand and interpret the implications of
  associations among phenomena in places.
• Recognize and interpret at different scales
  relationships among patterns and processes.
• Define regions and evaluate the regionalization
  process.
• Characterize and analyze changing
  interconnections among places.