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Chapter 1 Thinking Geographically
Essential Questions
Key Issue 1 How do Geographers describe where things are?
How is "contemporary geography" defined? What is most important?
How are people "pulled in opposite directions"? What fosters this situation?
Why is "Big Mac Attack" an apt example of globalization?
Who was Eratosthenes? What is his contribution?
How is geography divided?
Describe the word "map". What two purposes do maps have?
What is "place" geographically?
What is "region" "?
What is "scale"? What three (3) ways can it be presented? When is each scale "appropriate? Show
examples.
10. What is "space"?
11. What are "connections"? What is "cartography"? What decisions do cartographers have
to make?
12. What is "distortion"? What is 'projection'? What are the four (4) types of
distortion?
13. What is an "equal area projection"?
14. What is the "Robinson Projection" Why is it important?
15. What is a "Mercator projection"? Advantages/disadvantages?
16. What is the Land Ordinance of 1785? What did it do? Why? Discuss/define: township, range,
principal meridian, baseline, section.
17. GIS: what is it, what does it do, why important?
18. Remote sensing: same as "# 17. Why are human geographers interested in remote sensing?
19.GPS: what is it, where used, why useful?
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Key Issue 2 Why is each point on Earth unique?
1. What is a toponym? How do they come about? What is the significance of toponyms?
2. Places can change names. Discuss reasons that they have changed. Discuss Cincinnati.
Danzig, Leningrad. What is the longest toponym in the world'! The USA?
3. What is SITE: factors, changes (landfills, cofferdams?)
4. What is Situation: what, why important - give concrete examples.
5. Mathematical Location: what does this mean?
A. Meridians
B. Parallel
C. Longitude
D. Prime Meridian - where & why important [be able to discuss & differentiate these
concepts on a map]
6. Why is longitude important to us? How doe "time change" with respect to longitude?
7. Discuss LATITUDE - Equator? North Pole? South Pole?
8. Using the concepts latitude and longitude, give the absolute location of Louisville, Ky.
9. What is the significance of 0-degree longitude? Why Greenwich? Greatest obstacle?
10. "GMT" - what is it? Why is it important? What happens if you travel East from GMT? West?
What happened with the US railroads before standard time zones?
11. Discuss 11 "International Date Line." What happens when you travel east? West?
12. What are "regional studies"? How does a region gain uniqueness'? What is significant about
this?
13. TYPES or REGIONS:
A. how do you apply this concept?
B. what is a "formal region"? Give 3 examples
C. what is a "functional region'''? Give 3 examples/ give another name for functional
region.
D. what is a "vernacular region"'? Give 3 examples.
14. What is "spatial association"? Why do we need this?
15. Regional Integration of Culture: what is "culture"? Different meanings?
16. What do geographers study within culture? List/discuss importance.
17. How do geographers divide up the world? Why is this important'?
18. What is "cultural ecology'?
19. Describe "environmental determinism" discuss why this may be accurate.
20. Describe "Possibilism"- discuss the evolution of this idea & why it may be accurate.
21. How are climates classified? List all 5 zones. Who developed this system?
22. Where to humans avoid within the context of question 21? (Map 1-14)
23. What is forest biome? Savanna biome'! grassland biome? Desert biome?
24. The US Comprehensive Soil Classification System what? Why arc human geographers
concerned? What are the two main factors?
25. What is a "polder"? Who uses them? What is a "dyke"? (Map 1-15)
26. Discuss what the US did in Florida to alter the landscape/impacts/unintended consequences.
Key Issue 3 Why are different places similar?
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With respect to scale, what is globalization? What does it really mean? Examples?
What is a transnational corporation? How do they work? Give multiple examples.
What has globalization led to? Examples?
As a result of globalization, what has happened? Example?
What underlies the uniform cultural landscape? Positives? Negatives? What happens
when some people strive to retain cultural tradition in the face of globalization?
Define distribution - examples?
DENSITY:
A. arithmetic define/example
B.physiological define/example
C. agricultural define/example
CONCENTRATION: clustered v dispersed, even/relative- explain w/examples
Pattern- what is it geographically? Significance?
Space-time compression- what is it? Examples?
DISTANCE DECAY- what it is, significance, examples
DIFFUSION: define
HEARTH .define/give examples
RELOCATION DIFFUSION- what is it and what is significance?
EXPANSION DIFFUSION:
A. Hierarchical
B.Contagious
C. Stimulus
EXPLAIN ALL OF THE OF DIFFUSIONS WITH EXAMPLES
16. What is "uneven development" and why is Wean it be an issue?