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Guided Notes Geography 1.2 The Elements of Geography Geographers consider six elements • ________________________________________________________ • Places and regions • ________________________________________________________ • Human systems • ________________________________________________________ • The uses of geography The World in Spatial Terms Spatial relationships are the links people and places have to one another because of their locations. Locations are __________________________________________________________ Places and Regions Place - _______________________________________________________________ Geographers must determine how places are similar and different from one another. Places and Regions Cont. Regions - areas with similar characteristics. Three types of regions • __________________________ - defined by a common characteristic, such as products produced there. • Functional region - _________________________________________________ • __________________________ - defined by popular feelings and images rather than by objective data. Physical Systems and Human Systems Physical Geography - ___________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ - or cultural geography, is the study of human activities and their relationship to the cultural and physical environments. Environment and Society Human-environment interaction - __________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Geographers examine the ways people use their environment, how and why they change it, and what consequences result from these changes. The Uses of Geography Provides insight into how physical features and living things developed in the past. _____________________________________________________________________ Research Methods _________________________________ - geographers will visit a place to gather specific information about it and its geographical features. _______________- Specialist who make and design maps are known as cartographers. _______________________ select complex pieces of information about an area and present them in a more understandable form on a map. Research Methods Cont. ____________________________- helps to answer questions about how people think or feel about a certain location. ______________________________ - information geographers use can be numerical, temperature and rainfall data __________________________ - Geographic information systems (GIS), process and organize data Geography and Other Subjects Past Environments - geographers use historical perspectives to understand what places could have looked like in the past. Politics - ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Geography and Other Subjects Cont. ____________________________________ - Human geographers use sociology and anthropology to understand cultures around the world. ___________________________ - understands how the location of resources affect the ways people make, transport, and use goods.